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Old 12-14-2017, 01:44 PM   #17
Josh (PA)
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He told me a few things

1) "if you approach any garage door that opens automatically and your detector doesn't go off, it's not functioning properly.

2) There are certain auto-driving cars (Cadillacs being one) that use radar in a way that no one can block them.

"There are lot of signals out there that look just like real radar.

He pretty much convinced me that 1) GPS-based blocking is a necessity, and 2) V1's lates K-junk filtering (that's supposed to stop other cars from setting it off) still doesn't work well enough.
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