Sunday, November 6, 2011

Radar detectors will be able to warn Others of Speed Traps

In the cat-and-mouse game of avoiding police radar, speeders are about get a potent new weapon: each other in an automatic social network. Going on sale today is a system from detector maker Escort, based in West Chester, Ohio. Escort hopes to have "hundreds of thousands" of Escort Live networked devices in place within a year. The system consists of nothing more than a new power cord for an Escort unit, costing $79, that transmits radar sightings to the user's GPS-enabled smartphone. The phone then will automatically transmit the information to all others nearby in the network. About 2 million drivers have Escort units.
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Escort Direct Wire SmartCord for Radar and Laser Detectors

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