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Whether you're a speed demon who can't keep your foot off the gas pedal or a long haul driver who wants to avoid speed traps on road trips or even an Uber or Lyft driver who needs to know where all the red light cameras are, the Escort MAX 360c radar and laser detector is going to work great. With tons of sophisticated features and live updates [subscription required] as the situation changes, it's pretty impressive tech.
As tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ highlights, however, it's also a device with some problems, both in hardware and software. Are they enough that they'll drive you crazy or are they just glitches in a cutting edge detector? You can decide after you get the details from Dave...
Check the MAX 360c out at https://www.EscortRadar.com/
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this radar detector will take all the
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surprises out of driving let's check it
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out
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Dave Taylor and I decided not to record
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this whole thing in my car it's kind of
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uncomfortable and Plus is probably not
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very safe for me to be doing a video and
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talking to you while I'm driving so
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instead here we are I'm looking at the
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escort max 360 C radar and laser
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detector this is new and the C indicates
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that it's for a connected car so it has
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built-in Wi-Fi which is pretty cool
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because what it means is number one this
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thing will be able to use all of the
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crowd-sourcing Escort Live data and you
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can actually get your red light camera
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updates and firmware updates and you
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don't even need your phone in the car
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that is a pretty good deal because
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usually having your phone is a must and
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firmware updates you have to bring it in
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you have to plug it in your computer
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it's kind of a hassle with most of these
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radar detectors but this one if you have
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Wi-Fi in your car and you hook this up
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you are rocking and rolling now let's
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talk about some of its features because
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it's a pretty amazing piece of
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technology
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it supports detection of x-band at ten
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point five to five gigahertz k-band at
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twenty four point one five gigahertz
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ka-band thirty four point seven
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gigahertz and laser at 904 nanometers 33
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megahertz it's a lot turns out as you
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can see in this shot you can actually
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turn on and off which bands you want to
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pay attention to so if you're thinking
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I'm gonna let the cops use laser and tag
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me maybe because that seems fair but I'm
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gonna detect all the other bands what
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ever did you want to do you can do that
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now some of the stuff that this does
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that's really smart is it has for
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example auto GPS lock out since the
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detector always knows where you are it
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can actually recognize when you drive
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past a false trigger and after a couple
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of days it'll say you know what I'm
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gonna automatically Aloka lupa market
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you're not going to actually get this
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detect
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to go off so that's really nice one of
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the biggest issues with these radar
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detectors even the smart ones is the
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false positives you don't want to
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constantly slow down speed up slow down
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speed up you want to have it just detect
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the real thing so that's what this is
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trying to figure out it also has what
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they call speed based sensitivity which
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is another smart idea if you're driving
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slower it's gonna actually turn down the
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sensitivity because it doesn't need to
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see a radar coming from a quarter-mile
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away if you are just putzing through the
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little neighborhoods right at that point
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you can wait till it's closer before you
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get the alert and you slow down now
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speaking of which let's look at a couple
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of the displays here so on this on the
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front here's a picture this is just a
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typical display you can see I'm in a 35
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mile an hour speed zone and it's nice it
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actually shows local speed limits most
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of the time we'll come back to that in a
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minute and then here suddenly its
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noticed something in x-band and notice
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the arrows around the display the left
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and right means basically I'm passing
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this it's kind of too late for me to
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have noticed this hopefully I didn't get
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tagged now the equivalent of that is on
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my phone in the Escort Live app this is
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what shows up so you can see in both
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situations with regardless of which one
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I'm paying attention to it's gonna be
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pretty hard to miss that that's happened
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now at night you can also get detection
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and this looks actually a little more
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cool maybe this is the K band being
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detected and then in the app you can see
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this is what the app would be showing me
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so that's pretty cool actually and let's
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see so the thing that I really like
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about the whole escort line is that it
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connects via bluetooth with Escort Live
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then that crowdsources data so what that
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means is that if I'm coming up to a
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speed trap or I'm coming up to a red
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light camera or anything like that then
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other escort owners have the ability to
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add to the database to keep it live and
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lively in real time so here for example
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this is a map showing you that oh boy
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looks like I'm coming up I'm in a clear
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zone right now but if I go to the left
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or right then I'm going to be going into
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a lot of Dean
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territory now to be fair again the
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Bluetooth connections not super reliable
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so the idea is that once you have this
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paired via bluetooth with your phone
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then you should be good to go and every
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time you get in the car at Auto pairs
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and everything works fine didn't really
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work that way I would say it was about a
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50/50 proposition half the time this
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thing would suddenly after a couple of
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seconds say hey your phones they're cool
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we're connected but the other half of
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the time I had to relaunch the app and
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then it took about 15-20 seconds and
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then it would pair again automatically
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so all I had to do was launch the app
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which is probably a good idea anyway so
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you can see what's going on but you know
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it'd be nice if this was 100% on the
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with the Bluetooth so it goes same with
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the local speed limits is I really like
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having it show me the local speed limit
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now my car does that too but my car does
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that with a camera system so it's
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actually doing sign recognition all
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these technologies are very complicated
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but this one it's using a database
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system and I would say maybe 20 25
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percent of the time it just didn't have
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speed limits for me or I would be
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driving and it would say here's the
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speed limit oh I lost it and now I don't
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know what your speed limit is again
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which is not super helpful if you want
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to have it warning you that like in this
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shot you can see I'm coming into a speed
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trap and I'm actually driving over the
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speed limit so that's a perfect example
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of whoa slow down just five miles an
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hour but I'll slow down make sure that I
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don't have any issues let's see the
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settings and all of that there's a bunch
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of switches and buttons on the top which
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is nice and easy to work with so you can
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see here there's a sensitivity and
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brightness you can mark spots you can
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mute it which is super important and
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then there's power up on and off and the
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mount system is really cool they use it
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they're using what they call an easy mag
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mount here's a picture of it in use and
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unlike other mounts where you have to
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slide things in it's just a magnet so
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there's a metal plate here and then the
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mount that goes on your windshield has a
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magnet super easy you do need a wire you
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do need to have a cord but again they've
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been doing this long enough that
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know how to do it so this cord not only
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is in my opinion the perfect length but
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there's actually a button on the base
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and there's a light of red light that
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will flash to say hey I've noticed
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there's an alert coming up there's
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something you need to worry about so you
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can mute it right there even better
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there's an additional USB jack so you
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can still charge your phone if you only
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have one car do we call them cigarette
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lighters anymore or just 12-volt power
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adapters whatever it is this is a really
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nice add-on and it really makes this
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work a whole lot better in your car and
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let's see the arrows I already talked
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about that there are errors that show if
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it's something from in front of you
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something behind you you know these
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people with their radar systems can be
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pretty sneaky now there really is a
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whole earth achill question of how is
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this legal you know am i encouraging you
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to break the law and the answer is no of
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course not
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however I do a lot of long-distance
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driving I put on a lot of miles and I
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can tell you that when you're on the
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highway in the middle of nowhere it's
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pretty normal behavior for you to be
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going 5 or 10 miles an hour over the
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limit
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in fact when I do that people pass me by
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like I'm parked in the middle of the
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Indy 500 I don't know how they don't all
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get tickets but I just like to put in
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cruise control but I'm not gonna go
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exactly the limit but with something
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like this escort max 360 see then I can
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know that Oh over the next hill there's
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a speed trap and it's the cop from that
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little teeny tiny town and this is a big
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deal so with this alert I can then slow
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down to the speed limit pass on by that
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particular officer of the law and then
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go back up to whatever speed I feel is
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safe and honestly when you're driving on
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the highway in the middle of nowhere I'm
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not sure whether there's even a speed
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limit at all I mean I've been in plenty
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situations where oh my gosh I could
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probably have gone a hundred hundred and
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ten absolutely safely with multiple
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miles visibility front and behind that's
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another story I don't do that so now
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sure my car could do that but that's
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okay anyway so this is the escort max
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360 C and I've really
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enjoyed testing this out it's actually a
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really interesting device super easy to
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work with love the magnetic mount I
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really really love the whole concept of
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the crowdsourcing in the Escort Live app
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however I will say it comes with some
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glitches the bluetooths not reliable the
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speed limit stuff isn't entirely
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reliable and once in a blue moon I'll
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come up to one of those speed limit
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signs where it actually has a radar and
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it's telling you here's the speed limit
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and here's what you're driving and every
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so often this doesn't even see it at all
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so I'm not sure how that is happening
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but luckily I have never found it where
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I pass a cop who's sitting in his window
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with a little gun and this hasn't
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detected them way in advance so that's
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super nice not sure what else to tell
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you let's see I've shown you all of the
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screen captures and all of the photos
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that I wanted to show you Oh on settings
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check this out
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they have unknown settings with unknown
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options in the app I asked escort about
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this and they're like yeah the
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software's kind of a work in progress so
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we'll fix that in the next update so I'm
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waiting for the next update but at least
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I can get to the vast majority of
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settings for this so you know at the
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price you would think this would be
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absolutely nailed down perfect but this
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is a complicated piece of technology and
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there's definitely some work-in-progress
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elements to it
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so before I tell you the price let me
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ask if you can click on that subscribe
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button really appreciate if you can
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subscribe to my channel and if you find
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this useful and interesting thumbs up
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always is appreciated okay so this is
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the escort max 360 sea radar and laser
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detector and you can pick one up for
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yourself for six hundred ninety nine
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dollars at escort radar comm now if you
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don't have a connected car and you don't
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have Wi-Fi then you might check out the
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escort max 360 which offers like 99
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percent of the same functionality same
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design it's really basically the same
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radar detector just - the Wi-Fi
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capabilities and you can find that less
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expensive at the escort website
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but you can find it much less expensive
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at various other retail outlets so if
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you're looking for a really good radar
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detector and you don't need the Wi-Fi
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then I would say escort max 360 might be
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a better choice for you either way
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drive safely out there don't go crazy
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don't break the speed limit in any
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dangerous way and I will catch you in my
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next video
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