So, should you run out and buy a radar detector for your weekend drive to Buffalo? Please don’t. Instead, try something wild: obey the speed limit. Or use a good old-fashioned app like Waze, which tells you where cops are without the illegal hardware. The police can’t confiscate your phone for running a crowdsourcing app.
That’s the real hack—using technology that’s perfectly legal. Plus, you get to feel smug about not breaking a law while you’re already breaking the speed limit. It’s a moral loophole you can live with.
And if a trooper pulls you over anyway? Just smile, hand over your license, and say, “No radar detector, officer. I’m just a very slow driver.” They won’t believe you. But you’ll be telling the truth—and that’s the most fun you can have in New York traffic.
