Originally Posted by Brentvino169

The problem with the Escort 9500i and its TrueLock feature, advertised to help cut down on falses, is that it's flawed. The Escort 9500i breaks K band down into only 8 segments. If you TrueLock a false alert, it will no longer alert to any K band in that particular segment of K band in that location. If a cop happens to be shooting K band in that location and it happens to fall into that segment of K band, you will not get an alert and you could possibly receive a ticket.

Many stores have multiple door openers operating in all segments of K band so you could be locking out alerts for much of the entire K band if you TrueLock out all of the "falses" in that area. Every segment of K band you lock out will block 12.5% of all K band alerts in that area whether it is real police radar or a false alert.

The Valentine One and the Escort 9500i have two entirely different ways of dealing with police radar frequencies.

You have the Valentine One that will notify the driver of all police radar frequencies in use and let the driver decide what to filter out in their brain so they can react accordingly.

Then you have the Escort 9500i user who would rather have a nice quiet drive at the risk of receiving no alert and a speeding ticket because they let a computer judge what is a threat or not because they TrueLocked a false in an area where a cop decided to later run radar. Escort doesn't let you know on their website or in their Escort 9500i manual but if you TrueLock just one door opener, it will block 12.5% of the K band frequency in an area up to a 1/2 mile wide. A 1/2 mile area is equivalent to 7 1/3 football fields including endzones.

Do you want to risk receiving a ticket because your Escort 9500i was silent for over seven football fields because you didn't want any falses?

Originally Posted by w0ady

^all of this is why i still love my 8500. less false alarms than the v1 without the complications of gps.