Many of you who have driven with me know that I am always in a hurry. Call it bad timing or just to kind to say good-bye when I should, but I always seem to be trying to make it up on the freeway or roads (typically it is the freeway). Well with the CES show going on I came across some news about a new Cobra radar detector.
Now a days a simple radar detector is not enough since pesky highway patrol and police officers keep putting their traps in the ground, or in places where you simply can’t see them coming.
Cobra Electronics‘ solution:
The AURA (Advanced Universal Road Alert) update-able database of GPS coordinates for speed and red-light cameras and other known driving hazards. Cobra’s new high-end models, including the top-of-the-line $469.95 XRS R10G shown here, comes with a lifetime subscriptions to AURA updates, to be offered starting this spring.
The XRS R10G provides protection and peace of mind with Cobra’s new Super-Xtreme Range Superheterodyne Technology, detecting all 15 radar/laser bands with its super-fast lock-on detection circuitry. The detector provides maximum detection range and the best possible advance warning of even the fastest POP mode radar guns. It comes with a GPS Locator and Lifetime Subscription to AURA Database to alert you to verified Speed and Red Light Camera locations, dangerous intersections, and reported Speed Trap locations for the entire United States and Canada.
I currently have a radar detector but nothing as nice as this. I would like to get my hands on one just to see how well this really works. But I don’t see myself paying $500 for one so if any of you decide to buy one or somehow get your hands on one, let me know what you think.
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Phyllis Reynaldo says:
Great article, thank you for writing about this. You have a lot of educational articles here, thanks again! I really enjoy this hobby, my wife and I have been participating in it for awhile now. We are contemplating purchasing a Magellan RoadMate for our vehicle. Do you have any experience with this unit? Visit my site if you’d like to read more. Thanks again for a very educational site!
10th January 2009 at 3:34 pm
Krow says:
Thank you for the comment.
The Magellan RoadMate was the first product to be released after the company was bought out by Mitac. I remember reading about it when it was released earlier this year (April or May 09).
I personally don’t have experience with this model, but know that it received some great reviews from GPS Magazine, PC Magazine and CNET Reviews. I would love to be able to test this model out myself but personally don’t have the funds to purchase one.
If you do purchase the RoadMate I would be very interested in hearing what you have to say about it and what you like about it.
10th January 2009 at 5:11 pm