Red light and speed cameras are the fastest development in law enforcement. These are placed at proven, dangerous intersections or other areas where speed control is desired. Regardless their fairness or legalities, they’re here to stay. Radar detectors without GPS are disadvantaged where photo enforcement is used. Not since Ka band reception in the early 1990’s on detectors, has such a feature been as important. GPS also eliminates false alerts. GPS knows where you and they are! This year we did things differently. MacIntosh released its programming to new applications for its iPhone. Many approved applications are available identifying red light and speed camera locations in the phone as it has GPS. We looked at many of these applications in the months preceding our Annual Test. Other such applications tried to do too much and were slow. We chose I Radar as it only attempted to identify red light and speed camera locations and notifies the driver. It allows the user to set the distance at which it gives a visual and audible warning. You can receive and make phone calls while it operates. The i Phone must be powered by a cigarette lighter or it will run the phone’s battery down quickly. We had three i Phones at the test, all with I Radar. In evaluating I Radar’s performance over 4,000 miles in multiple states and cities, it correctly identified red light and camera locations. We selected four existing red light camera locations in El Paso and did not tell the participants their locations. i Phones do not detect police radar or laser guns. Police officers accompanied the participants. See Beltronics, Cobra, Escort, and Whistler. web sites for all of the features of the detectors: www.beltronics.com, www.cobra.com, www.escortinc.com, and www.whistlergroup.com. This year we were only interested if the detectors correctly identified red light camera locations. We first ran the I Radar program in the i Phones at the four red light intersections twice to see if they correctly identified and warned the driver correctly. They did. We then ran each radar detector with GPS at the same intersections twice to see if they correctly identified and notified the driver. The Escort 9500 ix and the Beltronics GX65 correctly identified two additional intersections with red light cameras not identified by others using their patented Defender database. Cobra and Whistler faithfully identified and notified each red light camera intersection. Whistler’s RLX-100 is a seperate device plugging into any detector. Whistler’s 250 is a stand alone unit. Beltronics, Cobra, and Escort offer downloadable update programs to keep detectors current per a subscription. Cobra’s program is called AURA and can continually update the detectors presented to us of XRS R10G and the XRS 9960 G. Whistler’s RLX-100 and 250 offer a free data update service for one year. See the DVD Of Test to see the I Radar and radar detector systems in operation.

Red light and speed cameras are the fastest development in law enforcement. These are placed at proven, dangerous intersections or other areas where speed control is desired. Regardless their fairness or legalities, they’re here to stay. Radar detectors without GPS are disadvantaged where photo enforcement is used. Not since Ka band reception in the early 1990’s on detectors, has such a feature been as important. GPS also eliminates false alerts. GPS knows where you and they are!

This year we did things differently. MacIntosh released its programming to new applications for its iPhone. Many approved applications are available identifying red light and speed camera locations in the phone as it has GPS. We looked at many of these applications in the months preceding our Annual Test. Other such applications tried to do too much and were slow. We chose I Radar as it only attempted to identify red light and speed camera locations and notifies the driver. It allows the user to set the distance at which it gives a visual and audible warning. You can receive and make phone calls while it operates. The i Phone must be powered by a cigarette lighter or it will run the phone’s battery down quickly. We had three i Phones at the test, all with I Radar. In evaluating I Radar’s performance over 4,000 miles in multiple states and cities, it correctly identified red light and camera locations. We selected four existing red light camera locations in El Paso and did not tell the participants their locations. i Phones do not detect police radar or laser guns. Police officers accompanied the participants. See Beltronics, Cobra, Escort, and Whistler. web sites for all of the features of the detectors: www.beltronics.com, www.cobra.com, www.escortinc.com, and www.whistlergroup.com.

This year we were only interested if the detectors correctly identified red light camera locations. We first ran the I Radar program in the i Phones at the four red light intersections twice to see if they correctly identified and warned the driver correctly. They did. We then ran each radar detector with GPS at the same intersections twice to see if they correctly identified and notified the driver. The Escort 9500 ix and the Beltronics GX65 correctly identified two additional intersections with red light cameras not identified by others using their patented Defender database. Cobra and Whistler faithfully identified and notified each red light camera intersection. Whistler’s RLX-100 is a seperate device plugging into any detector. Whistler’s 250 is a stand alone unit. Beltronics, Cobra, and Escort offer downloadable update programs to keep detectors current per a subscription. Cobra’s program is called AURA and can continually update the detectors presented to us of XRS R10G and the XRS 9960 G. Whistler’s RLX-100 and 250 offer a free data update service for one year. See the DVD Of Test to see the I Radar and radar detector systems in operation.