anti flash device-mirror

[ian d]

this may be a very daft idea or possibly thought of before but is it illegal?

if you fit an elongated mirror at an angle x degrees upwards along the top edge of your rear number plate it will reflect a flash, but at the same time will not obsqure the numberplate. any thoughts or suggestions or is it plain silly.
added:
a further thought:
if it were a round mirror, ie 1/4 circle, you won't have to worry about the angle it is fitted, relative to height of numberplate or speed of car in relation to distance from camera flash. ??

>>> Edited by ian d on Thursday 7th August 12:50

[deltaf]

ian d said:

this may be a very daft idea or possibly thought of before but is it illegal? if you fit an elongated mirror at an angle x degrees upwards along the top edge of your rear number plate it will reflect a flash, but at the same time will not obsqure the numberplate. any thoughts or suggestions or is it plain silly.

Sounds like a possibility to me.
I already use a similar idea to get rid of tailgaters and assholes with maladjusted lights, or full beamers...I adjust the door mirror so that their lights hit them in the face....tends to make em back off! Easy to do when you have electric mirrors!

[Wasted Bullet]

I was told that the time between the first and second flash was 0.2 seconds...

So what you need is a secondary flasher... when the sensor detects the first flash it immidiatly fires a ultra bright secondary flash 0.2 seconds later... which will overexspose the film in the camera and mean they can't get an avagrage distnace / time measusre...

Although I think it would be dangerous to anyone behind you... So maybe not brilliant...

[206xsi]

Wasted bullet - I think you may need to look up the dictionary definition of 'brilliant'

[Wasted Bullet]

Main Entry: bril·liant
Pronunciation: 'bril-y&nt
Function: adjective
Etymology: French brillant, present participle of briller to shine, from Italian brillare
Date: circa 1681
1 : very bright : GLITTERING
2 a : STRIKING, DISTINCTIVE b : distinguished by unusual mental keenness or alertness
synonym see BRIGHT
- bril·liant·ly adverb

[206xsi]

Fair play - I meant 1) - you meant 2b)

[hornet]

Saw a secondary flash kit being sold at the Earl's Court motor show quite a few years back. It was being marketed as an "anti paparazzi" device, but there was a mock up showing how it could be used to render GATSOs useless. Think it was called "Flashback" or something.

I had a thought whilst watching Top Gear review the Maybach and mentioning the photoelectric sunroof. Probably already exists, but couldn't you feasibly make a plate with a photoelectric glass cover, hooked up to a detector/GPS maybe, and every time you near a camera it turns the cover opaque and obscures the plate?

[grahambell]

hornet said:

Saw a secondary flash kit being sold at the Earl's Court motor show quite a few years back. It was being marketed as an "anti paparazzi" device, but there was a mock up showing how it could be used to render GATSOs useless. Think it was called "Flashback" or something.

Spoke to a stallholder at the Bulldog Bash a few years back who sold these things. Demonstrated it right there using a digital camera, and the plate in the photo was totally unreadable.

[CVP]

hornet said:

I had a thought whilst watching Top Gear review the Maybach and mentioning the photoelectric sunroof. Probably already exists, but couldn't you feasibly make a plate with a photoelectric glass cover, hooked up to a detector/GPS maybe, and every time you near a camera it turns the cover opaque and obscures the plate?

There is already something like this, LCD plates. When the current is on the plates reads as normal, but with the current turned off the plates go blank. It needs to be wired to a 12V supply all the time. There is a review on [url]www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk[/url] It's called the Priva plate. Unfortunately its weakness is that it can stand out like a sore thumb and get you the attenbtion of the BiB.

Chris

[richard sails]

deltaf said:

I already use a similar idea to get rid of tailgaters and assholes with maladjusted lights, or full beamers...I adjust the door mirror so that their lights hit them in the face....tends to make em back off! Easy to do when you have electric mirrors!

great idea