Check around any endurance rally. The overwhelming choice of riders who ride many miles in many states through many different environments (rural, urban, remote) is the Valentine 1.
Funky things like tagging a frequent speed trap is pretty useless because, if you ride that area often enough to use it, you'll already know they are watching/gunning the area and not need the detector to remember for you.
Using GPS to tag false signals at the cost of ping direction info is equally a lossy choice. Again, when riding a routine path, bogie counts will do that (the false was 1 source every day, the cop hiding in the shadow of the false is source 2... time to slow down).
The point is that none of this is very useful when on a ride that is new and/or not repeated or repeated rarely. Ping LOCATION is infinitely more valuable.
Locator arrows are highly useful as they not only let you know there's something somewhere around you, but WHERE that (those) something(s) is (are). Many's a time a cop ahead left the main road only to pull back in behind the rider hoping to snag them after they thought it was safe again. That the locator actively shows that sneak attack, is worth a LOT.
Funky things like tagging a frequent speed trap is pretty useless because, if you ride that area often enough to use it, you'll already know they are watching/gunning the area and not need the detector to remember for you.
Using GPS to tag false signals at the cost of ping direction info is equally a lossy choice. Again, when riding a routine path, bogie counts will do that (the false was 1 source every day, the cop hiding in the shadow of the false is source 2... time to slow down).
The point is that none of this is very useful when on a ride that is new and/or not repeated or repeated rarely. Ping LOCATION is infinitely more valuable.
Locator arrows are highly useful as they not only let you know there's something somewhere around you, but WHERE that (those) something(s) is (are). Many's a time a cop ahead left the main road only to pull back in behind the rider hoping to snag them after they thought it was safe again. That the locator actively shows that sneak attack, is worth a LOT.
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