currently on my 5th prius (09) and planning on a 2010 V with AT and i always use a radar detector. anyone using one with radar cruise control and can tell me if it sets off the radar detector? any help would be appreciated.
Um, a radar detector is useful even if one is not way over the speed limit. I like to be alerted when there is a cruiser around, because it can be the cause of all kinds of dangerous traffic turbulence. I once got a laser-generated ticket at a speed trap on steep downhill S-curves during evening drive time (40 speed limit, safe at 55 or 60). I saw the guy standing there before he hit me, but slowing down would have caused the car behind to rear-end me. If they were using any standard radar, I would have known about him long before I saw him. So, to sharpen the question, any Valentine1 (superior detection) users with Toyota radar cruise control experience?
I seem to remember another thread (it may have been in one of the other sub-forums though) where it was said that a V1 worked just fine.
I don't know if it's the same in US but the use of radar detector is forbidden in Quebec and New-Brunswick. A relative of my wife get caught by a detector of radar detector ! It costs him a big amount of money. I think the smart think to do is to respect the speed limit in all time. It gives plenty of time to slow down and avoid any accident. Drive safely !
radar detectors are completely legal in the US except for D.C. and west virginia. you'll all change your mind when you get a ticket for 60 in a 55 some time thinking they won't pull you over at 5 over.
people like you only perpetuate the stereotype that all prius drivers are slow, sissy drivers. besides there was a trooper in dauphin, pa who used to get people for 2 over, 37 in a 35 and ticket them. you never hover 2-5 mph over speed limit at any given time? right..
DRCC uses mm wave technology which is somewhere in the 70GHz range, far above where police radar lies.
I tried mine this morning (Bell RX65) and there are no problems. Highest frequency police radars are around 25 GHz, DRCC/PCS radar is 76.5.
