Of course TrueLock will always run the risk of locking out a legit LEO at a known false location. However, I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
In any introductory statistics course, one of the first paradoxes you study when exploring Bayes' rule is a situation where you have a detection scheme (an AIDS test and military airstrike radar are common examples) which alert 99% when a threat is present, and 1% of the time when no threat is present. For an unlikely event (such as encountering a real LEO shooting radar), the operator's belief that there's an alert present given the detection scheme is going off, is actually very low. If you want to look at the math of this paradox, this is a good writeup on it:
Bayes' theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roughly put, given a test that is 99% accurate at determining something that has a 0.5% chance of happening, if the test shows positive, the chances of the event actually happening is around 33%.
The question then becomes, is it more likely that:
(A) The user is so tired of constant beeping, combined with the lack (or simply not caring enough to understand) of knowledge about the characteristics of a false alarm ramp-up vs a real encounter, that it leads to IGNORING every alert if there's even the slightest belief that there's a shopping center or "road sign" close by.
(B) A police officer is running a K-band radar gun on the same 1/15th of the K-band spectrum at the same location as a door opener.
I'd say (A) is a far more common scenario for the average user than (B). Would I recommend something like the V1 to the average person who just wants to avoid speeding tickets? NO! It beeps so much they'll probably toss it out the window before caring what the hell X or K band is. Would I recommend it to a nerdy enthusiast who wants to absolute best protection and is willing to put a lot of time into research and experience with the unit? Probably so -- I still strongly believe that having a knowledgeable person interpret the V1's alerts can yield just as good if not better accuracy at separating likely falses from legitimate threats. The problem is, the thing is beeping the whole time, your passengers are being annoyed, and if you are the driver and interpretor your attention is probably being diverted too much.
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