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I got a V1 last summer for a long road trip, and despite their new ads, mine still 'wouldn't shut up'. I was glad I had it, but more for the nostalgia value. On the interstate, there were far more false alarms (Some cars, lots of trucks, most truckstops, and also some kind of radar traffic-flow meters under many overpasses). More than half the LEO's I saw were not sending radar signals, even marked cars that were obviously monitoring traffic. Of course, this serves me right for all the years of ranting about how much of a boondoggle the radar guns were, and how they should just be watching for erratic driving, rather than sitting staring at a speed number on their gun. It probably has saved me from at least a time or two of hitting the beam too fast, so if I stretch it I can say it saved me some tickets. The new Escort is more high-tech for mapping out false alarms, but I'm a troglodyte and don't have a smartphone to make 'em work.
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