What is the difference between radar and laser speed detection?
Radar and laser methods are two different ways of bouncing a signal off of your vehicle, measuring the return beam pattern and calculating your speed. Radar speed detection uses a variety of radio frequency bands. These waves are significantly wider than laser beams, making them easy to detect at any distance–even 10 miles away! Laser speed detection is a significantly narrower beam, making its detection much more difficult, especially at short ranges. Radar senses a general area, believed to give a speed reading for your vehicle (though it could be sensing somebody else’s). Laser, on the other hand, can target specific parts of your vehicle for an accurate reading.
