Number Plate Covers
Discussion
I have recently been referred to this site offering a product that partially obscures your no.plate to speed cameras.
www.ghostplates.com/ontrack.html
Does anyone know if they work? What happens if you are caught with one?
www.ghostplates.com/ontrack.html
Does anyone know if they work? What happens if you are caught with one?
Read in the papers about 4 months ago about some teenage oiks who deliberately obsured the number plates of a car with mud then drove through a speed camera in a 30 at 60ish. Would have got away with it except the photo was refered to the local plod who managed to ID the passenger in the back who had turned round to stick his fingers up! Seem to remember the driver got absloutely hammered in court.
Along a similar line these plates could be construed as 'prior intent' to speed. I also suspect that either they are quite obvious (despite what the blurb says) or there is some kind of polarising filter that can be applied by the camera people to get rid of the glare.
Along a similar line these plates could be construed as 'prior intent' to speed. I also suspect that either they are quite obvious (despite what the blurb says) or there is some kind of polarising filter that can be applied by the camera people to get rid of the glare.
gilbert_tp said:
Along a similar line these plates could be construed as 'prior intent' to speed. I also suspect that either they are quite obvious (despite what the blurb says) or there is some kind of polarising filter that can be applied by the camera people to get rid of the glare.
Or attempting to pervert the course of justice. Which will get you in serious shit.
mat205125 said:
I seem to remember a certain Mr Bond having an inovative solution to speed cameras fitted to his DB5. All that was a long time before the Gatso was a warped dream in it's inventor mind.
Not so, the Inventor of Gatso was a rally driver who wanted to work out the fastest way round corners.
Its the perversion of the use yet again, not the science that we are fighting.
Edited by Stubby Pete on Saturday 8th July 21:14
Proffesional photographers use double flashes to illuminate their subjects.
The second flash (iirc) is triggered by a photoelectric thingy that senses the first one.
A speed camera works on a double flash system as well. Could a flashbulb be mounted near the number plate to obscure the reg if triggered by a brilliant flash from behind?
Headlights etc shouldnt affect the system, as brightly lit studios dont trigger photgraphers bulbs.
The second flash (iirc) is triggered by a photoelectric thingy that senses the first one.
A speed camera works on a double flash system as well. Could a flashbulb be mounted near the number plate to obscure the reg if triggered by a brilliant flash from behind?
Headlights etc shouldnt affect the system, as brightly lit studios dont trigger photgraphers bulbs.
Saw this on telly a while back - a BiB demonstrated that with any half decent photo software they can 'negative' a digital photo and the number showed clearly through any 'obscuring' spray or cover. He showed both, i.e. a sprayed plate and a bike plate with a sanded plastic cover on it - both clear to read with the eye but allegedly obscured with flash photograhy. Neither showed clearly enough to read on a normal flash photo though (so the claims are correct!), but when the negative was viewed the numbers were clear as day and could be used as evidence!
Windows users - have a play with MS Photo Editor and you'll see what I mean...
Windows users - have a play with MS Photo Editor and you'll see what I mean...
skintrich said:
Proffesional photographers use double flashes to illuminate their subjects.
The second flash (iirc) is triggered by a photoelectric thingy that senses the first one.
A speed camera works on a double flash system as well. Could a flashbulb be mounted near the number plate to obscure the reg if triggered by a brilliant flash from behind?
Headlights etc shouldnt affect the system, as brightly lit studios dont trigger photgraphers bulbs.
The second flash (iirc) is triggered by a photoelectric thingy that senses the first one.
A speed camera works on a double flash system as well. Could a flashbulb be mounted near the number plate to obscure the reg if triggered by a brilliant flash from behind?
Headlights etc shouldnt affect the system, as brightly lit studios dont trigger photgraphers bulbs.
In a word, NO!
Speed cameras work by photographing your car twice. these shots are taken a certain time apart, thereby using the lines on the road, (and the equation: speed = distance / time) they can work out your speed.
Heavens knows how they know to start taking pics or not!?!?!??!
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mat205125 said:
I seem to remember a certain Mr Bond having an inovative solution to speed cameras fitted to his DB5. All that was a long time before the Gatso was a warped dream in it's inventor mind.
He was also the first person to have sat nav if I recall correctly.
Map detail was better than todays systems too.
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