- This right here, this is our enemy.
So how do we beat it?
Well, today we got a couple products
that say they can stop the police
from figuring out how fast you're going.
We're gonna find out if these claims are true
or if these companies are lying straight to your face
and your family.
Let's beat the Po-Po.
12 o'clock- (Jeremiah mimics laser)
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Okay, so here's the deal, guys.
A couple weeks ago, we bought this device
from a company called Rocky Mountain Radar.
And this product says it's a radar detector and scrambler.
That's gonna be important later.
And it also cost us about 200 bucks.
But a bunch of you guys in the comments said
that this thing was a scam and you guys were kinda right.
But how do cops even bust you for speeding
in the first place?
Okay, so there's two ways
that police can determine how fast you're going.
There's radar and there's laser.
They work in the same way.
They shoot a signal towards your car
using either radio waves or light, lasers,
and it bounces back, it does some math
and it tells the cop your speed.
So if you've ever gotten a speeding ticket,
you might have noticed
that the cop will actually tell you how they got that speed,
either laser or radar.
Now both radar and laser are pretty accurate,
giving speeds within one to two miles per hour.
But each has its own benefits and drawbacks.
But what radar lacks is precision.
The radio waves emitted from a radar gun
have high beam diversions,
so that means that the further those radar waves travel
before being reflected back, the wider they are.
So at a distance of 1000 foot,
the beam from a radar gun is 200 feet wide.
In heavy traffic, that means that the signals bounced back
will be from multiple cars,
so it's going to be up to the cop using the device
to figure out which car to pull over,
and they don't always get that right.
I mean, I'm always getting pulled over
when it wasn't me, officer.
It was the dude next to me.
Now, the infrared light
that comes from a laser speed gun like this
is much more precise.
At a 1000 feet, that beam is only about 24 inches wide.
So lasers only return speed from one specific object.
But that means they have to be aimed precisely
and they need a flat, reflective surface
roughly perpendicular to the source of the laser.
So what a cop will do is he'll shoot for the front bumper
and license plate,
and modern laser equipment often includes cameras
for aiming and recording.
So if you're busted, claiming it wasn't me,
probably not gonna work.
(upbeat music)
Now one of the simplest ways
to avoid getting caught speeding is with a detector,
and a detector does exactly that,
it detects when a cop is pointing a radar
or a laser gun at your vehicle.
There are a ton of products out there that can detect radar
and laser like the one we have right here.
And it might be illegal depending on where you live.
- So Jeremiah has the Rocky Mountain Radar detector
installed on his Catfish Camaro.
I have this little radar gun here and we're gonna see
if this thing actually detects.
You ready?
- Here we go.
(radar beeping)
18, 20, 24, 23.
- Safe to say that works.
- And it's detecting too.
(Jeremiah mimics radar)
(radar beeping)
Okay, so this thing worked great.
Not a scam, just like we thought.
But the obvious downfall of detectors
is that they're passive defense.
You might be already popped by a cop
by the time you hear this thing beeping.
But what if you could actively defend
or jam the signal
so that the cop isn't even able to get a speed reading?
Well, fortunately for us,
this thing claims to do just that.
Or does it?
- [Man] Bob bought his jammer
from a company called Rocky Mountain Radar
and it didn't protect him.
- [Interviewer] And you got three speeding tickets?
- [Bob] Yes.
- [Interviewer] Clearly did not make you invisible
to the cops.
- Clearly.
- Okay, here's the thing though.
Let's take a second look at what this thing claims to do.
It doesn't actually claim to jam, it claims to scramble.
And there's a good reason for that.
It turns out radar jamming is super illegal
under federal regulations in the United States.
If you get caught jamming radar,
you could get a $50,000 fine and five years in prison.
What?
And that's because a lot of things use radio waves,
from planes to self-driving cars,
and if you were to jam those radar signals,
you could potentially cause a crash
or disrupt important communication signals,
which brings me to my next point,
radio frequencies are regulated by the FCC
and they are very strict with what you can and can't do
with these signals.
And they actually sued Rocky Mountain Radar
for selling products
that apparently mess with radio signals.
So if jamming radar is so illegal,
could this thing possibly work?
Well, let's go test it out and see for ourselves.
Okay, so we have our radar installed
and have the jamming function set to on.
I got Justin here with the radar gun.
Now if this thing actually scrambles radar,
we're committing a pretty serious crime.
Justin, we could go to jail for five years.
- Oh, my God!
- I know.
- Where I'm from, these things are whatever.
But what is this, Virginia?
- We're in Cali, baby.
Everything's illegal.
Okay, Justin,
let's see if this thing actually jams a radar signal.
- We're going down together, buddy.
- Okay, let's go.
(intense music)
Oh, my God!
- 55, 64, 58.
- [Jeremiah and Justin] 113!
- Oh, my goodness!
This thing might actually be real.
It might actually work.
Oh, my God!
- Oh, yeah.
30, 44.
It's scrambling radars.
- [Justin] 77.
- [Jeremiah] My mom scrambles my eggs.
Dude, we got the old scrambler.
Wait a second, Justin.
This thing's supposed to be a scam.
- Right - It's not supposed
to do that.
- The guy in the comment said so.
- Yeah.
Okay, well how about this?
This is a very close setting.
That would never-
A cop's never gonna be right out your windshield,
unless you hit him.
(Jeremiah and Justin laughing)
- Then you're definitely going to jail.
- You're definitely going to jail.
So how about we go do a real world setting.
Let's go back to the street
and see if it scrambles it as I'm driving
and see if it actually jams. - I don't know.
I'm kind of scared.
- Well, you're, I'm in the car
and I'll be the one going to jail, not you.
- Good to go.
- So now you're okay with it.
- [Justin] Jeremiah, are you ready?
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah, I'm ready.
(radar beeping)
- I'm going prison.
- [Jeremiah and Justin] 113!
- No, it's working.
It's working.
(radar beeping)
It works.
- It scrambled?
- [Justin] No, it worked on this.
- Oh.
Oh, it didn't scramble
- [Justin] Uh-uh.
- Oh, and you're super lucky, dude.
You could have been in the midst of a federal-
- Federal crime.
Yeah, wait, why am I on video?
- (Jeremiah and Justin laughing)
- Okay, so that seemed like a scam.
But remember, radar isn't the only game in town.
Let me introduce you to my little friend, lasers.
This is the Tiny Meat Gang Alpha 15 Laser Detector
and Jammer,
and it costs us more than three times what we paid
for that Rocky Mountain Radar jammer,
and it not only detects,
but it allegedly jams lasers.
Laser.
All right, now let's take a look at their website.
Drive with confidence.
TMG's proprietary solutions draw on decades of experience
as a defense contractor.
Yeah, they do have a stinger missile on their main page,
which is always a good sign that this thing is about it.
Okay, looks like you can install it behind a grill.
Be a little inconspicuous.
That's pretty cool.
Oh, you put 'em on the back of your car as well.
This thing says TMG America,
but TMG stands for Taiwan Microwave Group America.
Two countries in one business.
So here is the thing with lasers,
jamming them is not a federal crime.
They're not regulated by the FCC
because the FCC can't regulate light,
and that is what a laser is.
So the question is how illegal is it?
Now it does depend on which state you're in
because some of these are illegal in certain states.
But you can buy a legitimate laser jammer
and they'll send you one and it will actually jam lasers.
At least they say it will.
So let's go find out for ourselves.
- Okay, everybody.
It is the big moment.
Jerry has the laser scrambler hooked up to his car.
I've got the nice laser here.
And we're gonna see if this thing actually works
or is it a complete scam?
(tense music)
(jammer beeping)
I'm not getting anything.
(jammer beeping)
It literally didn't read anything until he stopped.
You scrambled me, man.
- Yeah, baby!
Scrambled!
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(energetic hip hop music)
- All right, Justin.
So what is the best way to avoid getting a speeding ticket?
- Drive the speed limit.
- Wrong!
- No, it's to get a laser jammer, a laser scrambler,
a radar detector and a radar jammer, which is super illegal,
they don't even make 'em.
So I got to thinking,
how about I build my own radar jammer myself
and install it on the catfish?
You could do that?
- I can.
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(funky music)