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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: clips on March 18, 2006, 06:51:16 PM
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i\'ve heard of this stuff before, but i never really thought about pruchasing it...looks like the cops are provin\' this guy\'s product wrong...but it\'s hard to say if they are just sayin\' that so nobody will buy it...sounds like this stuff is fraudulent tho...read..
http://www.wsbtv.com/automotive/8081633/detail.html
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Most of those sprays work by putting small reflecting crystals all over the plate, so if there is a flash from the camera, it wipes out the plate. They also make reflective or refracting licence plate covers, but again, see #3.
1) They are temporary, and wash off after time.
2) They work only at cameras with a flash (ie, only at night), and often they don\'t work all that well.
3) In many jurisdictions, anything you do to obfuscate your licence plate is illegal. So trying to (unsuccessfully) get out of that 80 dollar light ticket could cost you demerits and a much larger fine if you get pulled over and they notice it.
This is what it\'s \'supposed\' to do.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.olavsplates.com%2Ffoto%2Fusa-fl_tip91m.jpg&hash=73f6706dd6a3d8b84b89d66e36604e2fb0a1966e)
If it actually worked for once, and they wanted to hunt you down, here\'s the same plate with a bit of photoshopping:
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.olavsplates.com%2Ffoto%2Fusa-fl_tip91m_close.jpg&hash=d645559a6d919ed2da91279dcb02c8ee1d13c26c)
Clearly visible as TIP 91M... and they gotcha.
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Yeah, I was going to say "God"\'s light is way more powerful than a simple flash.
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Where I live, all the speed and redlight cameras still use the flash. Even during the day, as I see them catch speeders.
That would work around here. I have it. And haven\'t been caught yet.
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In spain we use hairspray to do the same, you\'re late americans :P
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In spain we use hairspray to do the same, you\'re late americans :P
Congratulations. We have a much more complex and expensive method of doing the same damn thing.
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In the jungle we smear feces all over our faces to hide our identity.
Nice job you pig dog Americans. You are three hundred years too late.
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In the jungle we smear feces all over our faces to hide our identity.
Nice job you pig dog Americans. You are three hundred years too late.
You mean that NY is the jungle and that you use shit as make-up?
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Yes
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I wonder if gloss spray paint for model planes will do the same thing to over-expose those flash cameras.
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I wonder if gloss spray paint for model planes will do the same thing to over-expose those flash cameras.
Try it out and get back to us ;)
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Try it out and get back to us ;)
I\'ll speed through a school zone just coz you want to know. :p
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I\'ll speed through a school zone just coz you want to know. :p
Go for it. I won\'t be paying the ticket :p
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they took down all the red light cameras where I live. Nobody knows if they are going to ever put them back or not
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they took down all the red light cameras where I live. Nobody knows if they are going to ever put them back or not
What was the reason behind that?
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Once in a while someone successfully beats cameras because they charge the car/vehicle owner for an offence, not the driver, and under the law in Canada and the US traffic violations are a \'driver\' offence that must be ticketed at the same time as the breach. If that happens at a lower court, sometimes the cities just give up and get rid of the cameras.
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The question I\'ve been dying to ask....
Why not just stop at the red light?
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The question I\'ve been dying to ask....
Why not just stop at the red light?
Sometimes you get stuck in a traffic jam. You cross the intersection and then suddenly two cars up, a woman is taking her sweet time making a right turn into McDonalds.....holding you up in the middle of the intersection - light turns yellow and then red.
*click*
(e) gets a ticket! :D
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Sometimes you get stuck in a traffic jam. You cross the intersection and then suddenly two cars up, a woman is taking her sweet time making a right turn into McDonalds.....holding you up in the middle of the intersection - light turns yellow and then red.
*click*
(e) gets a ticket! :D
I thought you had to be moving for it to trip the sensors.
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I thought you had to be moving for it to trip the sensors.
And as soon as you do, it takes a picture.
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The sensor for movement is usually pointed at the white line at the entrance of the intersection, so that the first picture is a wide angle shot of you entering the intersection while the light is red (ie, it won\'t take a photo if the light was yellow when you entered the intersection), and the second photo is generally a slightly closer picture but with frame of reference from the first photo, so that they can determine both your licence plate and speed from the second (ie, .2 seconds apart, they can show how fast you were moving by distance travelled). Every light camera here is set up that way.
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What was the reason behind that?
I think it has to do with the fact that the state or county legislature didn\'t renew or extend the "red light pilot program" in my county. The posts are still there, but all the boxes the cameras were in have been removed.
I ran a red light on my lunch break... just for fun. :thumb:
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I ran a red light on my lunch break... just for fun. :thumb:
Bonus points for hitting a stroller.
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I think it has to do with the fact that the state or county legislature didn\'t renew or extend the "red light pilot program" in my county. The posts are still there, but all the boxes the cameras were in have been removed.
I ran a red light on my lunch break... just for fun. :thumb:
All the cameras by me aren\'t boxes. They actually look like small security cameras on top of the traffic light poles (which hold the lights). They are angled at the intersection. Your county may be getting rid of them but my county in Jersey keeps adding them. Even intersections that never had them and are old lights have them now.
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Sometimes you get stuck in a traffic jam. You cross the intersection and then suddenly two cars up, a woman is taking her sweet time making a right turn into McDonalds.....holding you up in the middle of the intersection - light turns yellow and then red.
*click*
(e) gets a ticket! :D
This happen every day to you or something?
People who use these are going to be speeding past red lights, not accidentally stuck in the middle of the intersection forced to drive past the red light.
Besides - I don\'t think they would give you a ticket for that.
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It is illegal to proceed into an intersection unless you are able to clear the intersection. So yes, you can get a ticket if you are there during a red light.
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Too bad its hardly ever enforced. There was an intersection nearby my hometown that would get blocked by idiots who would get stuck in the middle of the intersection. Never saw a soul get ticketed. Would have been a quick couple thousand dollars for the city if they had a cop sit out there for a few hours enforcing it.