Are Radar Detectors Legal?
Many drivers in the United States have radar detectors in their vehicles, to enable them to drive higher than the posted speed limit without getting ticketed.
The radar detector is able to alert them if there are police near them. Once the radar detector alarm sounds, they can ease off the gas and slow down their speed.
In an attempt to thwart this cops are hiding, in alleyways or behind bridges in order to avoid being detected by the radar detectors. Additionally the speed cameras / radars they use using higher technology to make them ever harder to detect.
This forces drivers to purchase ever more enhanced, top-dollar detectors to combat the new technologies.
Radar detectors are legal in many cities and states in the United States. But this does not mean that radar detector units are legal in all of the states in the US.
Here are some of the states that deem radar detectors illegal:
1. The usage of radar detectors are prohibited in the Commonwealth of Virginia. They have laws banning the use of radar detectors. Not only are radar detectors illegal to use in Virginia, they are also illegal to have in the vehicle.
2. Radar detectors and radar jammers are illegal in the District of Columbia. The passing of their laws to ban the use of radar detectors was set in 1995.
3. In Illinois, radar detectors are only regulated in commercial vehicles of over 26,001 pounds.
4. On US military bases, they are legal to have but illegal to use.
5. Radar jammers are illegal in the states of Utah, California, Oklahoma, Colorado and Nebraska.
6. Radar detectors are not specifically regulated, but things hanging from windshields are not permitted in the state of Minnesota.
7. For motor vehicles over 18,000 pounds and any other commercial motor vehicles over 10,000 pounds in New York, radar detectors are illegal.
And other states that prohibit the use of radar detectors are the following:
• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Colorado
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• Mew Mexico
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Vermont
• Washington
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming
The state of Connecticut on the contrary has canceled its anti-radar detector law in 1998 which make this radar detector now legal in this state.
Use of POI database in a GPS navigation device.
One of the added advantages of adding a speed camera database to your GPS navigation device, like those offered by Garmin or TomTom is the fact that no matter how much the technology changes speed camera data can be updated freely…
Additionally, in states where detector usage is illegal. The addition of POI data to your database is not noticeable, unlike a radar detect stuck to the windshield.
