Cobras iRadar vs Escort Live

With police departments around the world upgrading their speed enforcement technology to include mobile photo enforcement, instant on, and low powered digital radar guns it’s becoming harder and harder for most radar detector manufactures to keep up.

Because of this many these manufactures have jumped aboard the community based mobile application bandwagon, enabling the sharing of speed trap alerts with other users.

However there have been two concerns voiced by many radar detector users regarding this new technology.

The size of the user base and the reliability of the data shared.

Because of this over past 4 weeks I’ve used both applications for my review between Cobra’s iRadar and Escort Live.

Cobra touts their iRadar base as being over 1,000,000 users, which is notable, however one thing that they do not account for is the accuracy of their data.

As I noted in my review of the Cobra SPX 7800BT my biggest concern was the amount of false alerts the detector triggered and that these false alerts were then automatically uploaded to the iRadar user base cloud, without giving me choice.

So can you imagine the litter of inaccurate information with over 1,000,000 users also uploading their false alerts?

On the other hand Escort trusts their user base enough to allow them to intercede on X and K band alerts to “lock out” these as being false signals by the exact frequency and location.

Thus these false alerts are marked and blocked not only for future encounters on their own detector, and not uploaded to the Escort Live cloud.

Because of this filtering Escort LIVE accounts for over 32,000,00 REAL SAVES!

So the bottom line comes down to this.

Do you want make the investment of a extra few dollars a year to receive trustworthy data that you can count on, or get garbage data that is free?