Year: 2020

I have been a long-time V1 user. I recently bought a new 2020 BMW X5 with all the new safety stuff, including hand motion sensors. The V1 that I had was only a few years old, worked great with traffic and vehicles that had the blind spot detection. However, it would go nuts in my … continued

The V1 Gen2 is my first V1. I immediately headed for the highway to test and within a few odo clicks I decided it was trash; for miles it just kept beeping. Could it be mistaking a collision avoidance radar for a police radar, possibly the one in my own car? As I drove further, … continued

It’s a sunny weekend in San Diego and I’m with the family in my Mercedes E350, heading for brunch. I take the ramp to a toll road that’s usually light traffic and very high speed. To merge, I normally rocket-launch out of the toll booth. This toll road is the reason I bought my V1 … continued

I have owned my V1 since 2004, and in those 16 years it has kept me out of innumerable awkward roadside conversations. Incidents of the following sort have happened many times, and again just the other day on the interstate. I was moving as if I wanted to get there and had two cars shadowing, … continued

Going home from work the other night – I work a 12-hour shift – it was getting dark when V1 started chirping. Five miles of road ahead, long and straight. I’m going all of the posted limit, probably a little more, and there’s a pickup huge in my mirror. When V1 talks, I listen, and … continued

I was cruising easy in my 2016 Challenger Hellcat when V1 chirped. I looked around and saw an everyday Dodge Charger on my right. Maybe he just wanted to say hello. Just then a guy astride a crotch rocket jetted past on my left, wanted me to chase him. Nah! In a finger snap the … continued

I was driving my red Corvette to west Texas and had just exited Interstate 20 to State Highway 84. A black Honda blew by me on the broad winding turn to the north. I sped up just to see how fast he was going…95 mph! I eased back and set the cruise to 72 mph. … continued

I spend a lot of time driving on a rural road called the “Devils Backbone.” I always have my V1 with me even though it’s not a high-speed road by any means, too many hard twists and turns with few guardrails and drop-offs hundreds of feet down. One evening on my commute, V1 lit up … continued

Living in Calabasas, CA, the nearby Santa Monica mountain roads are a sports car driver’s delight. I take off early, around 5:00 am, to enjoy the twisties all by myself. Lots of tight curves where the speed limit is 35 mph but 45-50 is easy in my roadster. At about 5:30 this morning, V1 screams … continued

My first V1 arrived about a week before the start of a coast-to-coast run, also a first for me. With such a short get-acquainted time, I hit the road knowing I had to go to school on what the various beeps meant and which ones needed my immediate attention. After a few hundred miles I … continued