Review of the Passport Max2 Radar Detector by Radar Roy
Did you know that police departments across the US are updating their old analog radar guns to digital and that these newer digital radar guns are much harder for most radar detectors to detect?
Here is why.
These digital radar guns use a lot less power and measure a cars speed based on a 12-inch travel distance rather then a 10 or 15 car length distance used by analog guns.
This enables the officer to target your car at greater distance and in some situations over 2 miles away!
Because of this the engineers at Escort have borrowed technology developed by NASA to communicate with their equipment in deep space called digital signal processing and integrated it with their newer radar detectors.
The result is that Escort’s newest radar detector, the Max2, is able to sniff out real police radar based on the DNA profile, while also filtering out all those annoying false alerts.
This enables the Max2 to have over 8 times the capture distance of a police radar gun!
Now here is another big benefit of Escort’s patent DSP technology.
Many of the newer cars today come equipped with Adaptive Cruise Control, which uses the same K-band spectrum police radar uses.
Because of this most radar detectors are almost rendered useless because of the over abundance of false alerts.
Here is an example.
Back January of 2014 Car and Driver Magazine did a comparison test of the Valentine One and the Max radar detector.
This was their comment regarding the Valentine One:
“One annoyance is incessant false alarms—the Valentine’s filtering isn’t very effective. On our 22-mile loop, the V1 called out 53 threatsâ€
Think about that for a moment, that’s over 2 false alerts per mile.
Now here is their comment regarding the DSP technology used by the Max2.
“The Passport’s near elimination of false alarms provides a higher level of real-world protection. It’s user-friendly for a first-time buyer but powerful enough for the most hard-core user.â€
Another feature that sets the Max2 apart from all the other high-end radar detectors out there is it’s internal Bluetooth chipset that enables it to connect directly to the Escort Live Community.
This enables your detector to share real time alerts from other members of the Escort Live community and this clip shows one of them where I was alerted of a VASCAR speed trap, between Phoenix and Flagstaff in August of 2014.
And another advantage the Max2 has is it’s internal GPS, which enables you detector to do two things.
One it’s ability to automatically filter out known false alert locations based upon the exact location and frequency of the false alert.
And the other is that your Max 2 comes equipped with the Escort defender photo enforcement database, which will alert you when you approach fixed photo radar and red light camera locations.
And updating your Max2 is a snap, just download Escort Live to your computer, plug in your Max2 using a USB cable and your detector will be updated with the newest firmware and photo enforcement database.
For more information about the Max2 or to order click on this link:
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