Indexing Number Plate

[crbox]

www.speedflip.com

Anybody seen or tried this device?

[oldsoak]

crbox said:

www.speedflip.com

Anybody seen or tried this device?

SPEEDFLIP said:

Disclaimer; Although it is legal to fit this device we must stress that use on public roads is not. We recommend this product be used for show and off road use only.

Kinda says it all really.....

[wrinx]

I read about someone being prosecuted for using one of these, perverting the course of justice iirc. Can't remember any more details though...

wrinx

[Fer]

Crap web page though.

speedflip.com said:

The all New 12 Volt Version is Hear Now!!!

and

speedflip.com said:

Speedflip can be fitted to any automobile in round about 15- min; no auto electrical knowledge is required just wire it up to your battery or nearest power supply.

Perhaps a 3 pin plug in the garage?

[GPSHead]

Surely if it is indeed legal to have it fitted (as it says but of course it might be wrong), they would actually have to catch you in the act of flipping the plates to do you for fraud or PCJ. Going round with them permanently down would presumably only get you the £30 fine that you'd get if you had broken/obscure plates or didn't have them at all. So they'd have to see you flip them and, if they're scammers and not police, presumably get it on video as well. Also would they have to prove that you'd seen the camera and flipped them because of that (and not just coincidentally or accidentally)? Would whether you flipped them back afterwards have any bearing?

Quite an intriguing device, and let's face it, if a legal way could be found of using one then many here would probably think about getting one, if only as a safety net. The awful web page doesn't exactly fill me with confidence about the device's quality or reliability though.

The reliance on number plates is the common Achilles' heel of all modern motorist persecution systems. Anyone who finds a legal and "unbannable" way of using that to defeat such systems will be rightly popular. It will mean that the authorities have no choice but to do what most of us want: more police and an end to camera-based "enforcement". The fact that only people who are honest enough to have the correct plates on their car get done by cameras is one of the things that "normal" people resent most about cameras, I would imagine.

[Gemsbok1000]

They can't be doing too well as they obviously couldn't afford any oil for the demo one fitted to the Cosworth!

[thinfourth2]

crbox said:

www.speedflip.com

Anybody seen or tried this device?

Okay lets look at this in the real world

Wandering along the road at above the speed limit

Spot a cash point machine

look for the switch which is somewhere in your car as you don't use it very often so you do have to look for it

take hand off the wheel

reach over to switch

flick switch


OR you could be more radical and do the following


Brake?



Which do you think is quicker and less risk


Or are you going to be driving along all the time with your plates down, it is far quicker and cheaper just to get a set of cloned plates and i dare say less risk of getting a tug