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With its all digital design and reliance on your smartphone, the Cobra DSP 9200 BT is a leap forward in radar detectors, tiny in size and powerful in capabilities. Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ takes it for a test drive...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about radar detectors
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that's why I'm in my car and what I want
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to talk about specifically is this
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little tiny guy this is a pretty amazing
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device this is the Cobra DSP 9200 BT not
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a really friendly name but really a
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pretty remarkable device and part of the
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reason it's so small is because they've
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taken a lot of the smarts in terms of
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the display and put them onto your
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smartphone so you need a smart phone to
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use this but that gives you all sorts of
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really cool advantages before we go
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there though again I want you to see
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just how small this is
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this is Cobras first all-digital
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detector which gives it better range in
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accuracy and what's really cool is it
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eliminates a lot of noise now it turns
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out that on modern really fancy cars
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like outies BMWs the collision avoidance
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system can trigger false positives and
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radar detectors so if you have one of
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those cars and your radar detector is no
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longer functional enter this guy this is
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one of the things they really were
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working on with this new generation of
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Cobra radar detectors because it's a
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legitimate issue obviously but it also
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gives you voice alerts it's a 360 degree
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laser detection because cops have gotten
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pretty smart with all their detection
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systems right what makes it really cool
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because it's bluetooth is it connects to
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the eye radar community but before I
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talk about that let me just show you
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real quick here's what it looks like
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when it detects something in this case
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it's the cave and so this was I believe
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either a cop driving by or was one of
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those speed limit signs that has a radar
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system built in but you can see it's
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pretty easy pretty small it just sits on
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your windshield and as needed it tells
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you what's going on and you can say let
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me make double sure I'm going the speed
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limit
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not that I'm encouraging anyone to speed
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make your own decisions on that but as I
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said this also connects you through your
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phone to the eye radar community which
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gives you a vast amount of additional
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data
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so you can know things like where our
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photo radar systems where our red light
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aura traffic systems where our speed
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cameras it really gives you a lot of
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real time traffic threats so if there's
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a temporary speed trap setup this thing
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can help you find it now again it's kind
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of an awkward niche because I don't know
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that I want to encourage you to break
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the law but on the other hand I know I
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certainly do long drives and sometimes
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you're on the highway in the middle of
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nowhere and honestly 10 miles an hour
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over the limit doesn't seem too radical
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but it's awful nice to have a device
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that tells you whoa slow down over that
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hill you're gonna find a young police
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officer ready to give you a ticket for
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going that 10 miles over the limit so
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worth checking out check online you'll
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find people adore this thing this is I
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think from my experience the best radar
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detector Cobra has ever made I mean they
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really come a long way with this device
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and I just love that it's so small I can
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just put it in my pocket it is however
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not entirely inexpensive it is $399 if
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you buy it at Cobra com
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or if you go and look somewhere like
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Amazon and I think actually on Cobra
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comm right now they have it on for sale
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at 349 sounds like a lot of money but if
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you get a major speeding ticket it's
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gonna cost you more than that so maybe
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not a bad investment if you have a heavy
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foot so this is the Cobra DSP 9200 BT
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digital radar detector and this is a
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keeper for sure even if you're only go
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just a little bit over the speed limit
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cuz I know you're like me and sometimes
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it's hard to not be in toast so this is
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Dave Taylor I'm out of here and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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