In the places where it’s like that, enforcement is lax and you’ll never need a radar detector.

In the other places, it’s very simple to sit in the right lane and you won’t be going wildly slower than the rest of traffic. There are always trucks and governed vehicles on the road that are going the speed limit that you can swim through the stream with.

I used to be in the camp of defending the legality of radar detectors, and really I don’t think they need to be legal, but at the same time the only people buying them are dangerous assholes who treat public roads like their personal race track.

It takes at least one ticket to pay off the investment which means radar detector owners intend to be repeat offenders.