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I picked up a new Escort Radar (9500) unit and also picked up the "Live" unit. It basically uses blue-tooth to connect to your phone and the Internet. It both records your radar contacts, send them to the Internet, and receives Internet data about other people's contacts. This information is relayed INTO the radar detector including distance rundown. You can also press a single button to record a "Live Cop", basically marking where a unit is, which is not transmitting RADAR or LASER. The phone app can be used in map mode to see other people's contacts.

It saved my butt big-time yesterday. I had a LASER alert 3/4th of a mile ahead, coming from the Internet database. Sure enough, behind an overpass and hidden in the grass was a Texas DPS using Laser. It would never have been picked up otherwise.

I'm not sure what was going on between Baytown and Beaumont, but there were DPS about ever 5 miles. Usually, there is 1 about every 60 miles. Probably a sweep. They seemed to be interrogating the people they pulled over, out of the car in the grass at the side of the road.