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Originally posted by HardDrive
Its almost 100% laser here in the Seattle area, so I don't see what a detector would do for me.

If you only drive where there's laser, and you never go anywhere else and there's absolutely no radar, then a detector will do very little. IMO, a radar detector will warn you of radar at least 90% of the time. Occasionally the warning you get will be telling you "you just got hit, you're screwed." With Laser that is reversed, at least 90% of the time, the warning will mean that you just got hit and are going to get a ticket with occasionally the warning being early enough for you to avoid a ticket.

If you live in a laser only environment, then a laser jammer is probably what you need. The one that I seem mentioned most often is the Blinder Xtreme series
http://www.radarbusters.com/products/blinder/default.asp

It gives you a warning that you just got hit. The theory is that when the cop first tries to hit you with laser, you hear the warning, slow down, and then turn off the jammer and give the cop a good reading after you've slowed down and turned the jammer off.

I've done some reading, and apparently, sometimes, especially certain cars will take a couple of tries before the cop gets a good reading with laser. I'm guessing that something like a 911 or my miata is exactly that kind of car.