[dandrews64]

SF Bay Area folks with radar detectors, I have a question:

I'm using an Escort Passport 8500 X50 (blue), and it has begun to behave oddly.

As you're all aware (or I'm totally wrong) our CHP friends and local cops use the Ka band. And for the most part, they're lazy and don't use instant on (is there a law?). X and K have always been false alerts.

Recently, in areas where I've been using detectors for years, I've started getting instant full-blown alerts on the K band. Out between Pleasanton and Tracy on 580 eastbound and now just in the last month or two in Marin, mostly southbound on 101 in the San Rafael/Corte Madera area. This is an immediate full-blown K alert - I nearly piss my pants most times.

I just recently went to Ice House Reservoir area outside of Placerville and back to Petaluma with none of these issues - it seems to be in certain spots.

Anybody else experiencing this development, or is my X50 starting to go insane? (or maybe I am!)

I wonder if CalTrans is doing something to measure traffic flow for the 511.org site?