Cobra Safety Alert System® actually works!

[Deputy]

I put "IO" in quotes -- I meant only turning on the VG-2 when he is actively looking to give detector tickets -- which of course is not a designed or effective use of the VG-2 ;-)

My point is, having a VG-2 turned on while trying to use IO is pretty pointless considering that many, even cheap, detectors alert to the presence of the VG-2.

oh okay, well to the OP I wouldn't recomend getting a cobra just for the safety alert just because of the leakage to other detectors, I'm pretty sure there's other detectors that have the same if not better safety alert detection.

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Actually, there isn't any other detector with Safety Alert. The Cobra uses their own version of a warning system and it's not on other detectors. BEL uses Safety Warning System and that doesn't work at all in my area. As Jimbonzzz said in the second post, "But the best information is that the use of SAS is much more widespread than SWS".

[jdong]

Any detector that detects K-band will alert to both types of transmitters. I don't think either feature is worthy of consideration.

The only "safety alert" feature that's worthwhile IMO is the Strobe Alert on Cobras that picks up MIRT traffic preempters. Unfortunately, the receiver isn't all that sensitive in my experience, so there goes that idea.

[Deputy]

Any detector that detects K-band will alert to both types of transmitters. I don't think either feature is worthy of consideration.

A K-Band alert is rather useless unless it SPECIFICALLY describes what the alert is. Cobra does that in my state. I have yet to pick up ANY K-Band alerts on my RX-65 that were transmitted by a SWS or SAS system. I checked by driving the same day only a few minutes apart from where my Father-in-Law had picked up a construction (Road Hazard) alert. My RX65 was as quiet as a mouse.

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