"Red light" Traffic Cameras

[Jerryl]

Got into a situation at a intersection the other day.

An 18 wheeler ahead of me had to slow down to make a turn and brought traffice to a stop. I was the third car behind the truck, and got caught right in the middle of a "red light camera" monitored intersection.
Don't need to get into these situations, but sometimes they can not be avoided.

Anyone know if the clear overspray paint work for red light camera's?
I just see if this is legit.
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[ChrisCairns]

Check with your DMV. Some states just slap you on the wrist, but in others it's a felony to "hide" your plate. And you don't want a felony.

 

[Jerryl]

Check with your DMV. Some states just slap you on the wrist, but in others it's a felony to "hide" your plate. And you don't want a felony.

Agree.


By the way, a co-worked told me this was tested on MythBusters.

"REVISITED: A speed camera can be beaten by commercial spray.
Re-busted
The commercial spray failed to obscure the license plate."

MythBusters Episode 84: "Myth Evolution"

 

[turbofish38]

IIRC Those clowns over on Top Gear proved that you could beat those red light cameras..............all you need to do is run the light going faster than 176MPH. You better start building some more power into the GN.:tongue:

 

[dgoodhue]

Got into a situation at a intersection the other day.

An 18 wheeler ahead of me had to slow down to make a turn and brought traffice to a stop. I was the third car behind the truck, and got caught right in the middle of a "red light camera" monitored intersection.

Did you get a ticket? I would think the interection camera would build in some type speed calc (perhaps a double picture) for unavoidable stopped or slow moving traffic where a car was stuck in the middle of an intersection.

 

[ChavoLC2]

Ask my wife

Check with your DMV. Some states just slap you on the wrist, but in others it's a felony to "hide" your plate. And you don't want a felony.

My wife and I are tired of these darn cameras. The way they have em set up if the light is yellow and you punch it to get thru light they catch you speeding which is more expensive then the red light violation. What's bunch of bull is we send the fine to Ohio and a small % comes back to NM. The only good thing is if you pay the fine they don't put it on your record i.e points. If you decide to fight it it goes against your record. What I've decided to do is AVOID those intersetions with cameras and if I do have to make my way thru one I slow down and if the light turns yellow I stop even if i stop partially into the intersection. It's a Scam they catch you coming and going. Redlight is 100 and speeding thru intersection is 150.

So I bought a couple to license plate covers that they guarantee. Anyway one officer noticed a cover on my son's pickup and was nice enough to tell my son to take it off that it was against the law. Another cop about arressted my wife treated her like crap took her keys actually took the cover off and scared my wife and daughter and yelled at her I can arrest you it is a FELONY. So she had to go to court for obstructing her plates a felonyin this state, fotunately my Father inlaw is a lawyer and knows a few judges and lawyers. They dropped the case and then on her way out one of the court officals kiddingly said we are having a large garage sale on these plate covers this Saturday.
y wife was scared to death thought she was going to do sometime. The covers work they actually obscure 1/2 the plate but I say stay away from them they're not worth the trouble. And Stay away from those intersections or take the chance of getting caught even if it ain't your fault. Go a different route.

 

[GNBRETT]

If u cant see u cant read it...

Hide a Plate.com ~ Protecting what belongs to you!

 

[John Larkin]

You could always install a bikerack and have a bicycle hanging back there. That's not illegal is it? Especially if you have lots of reflectors in the spokes.

 

[scottyb]

That spray on crap doesn't work - they tested it on mythbusters.

Don't run the light. And if you have an odd situation, the camera should capture the "situation" as well.

 

[xpander343]

they're putting those stupid things up all over the place in toronto, and the most irritating part is how small the sign to warn you about them is.

 

[Dreamcar86]

Hide a Plate.com ~ Protecting what belongs to you!

From what I understand those really work by refracting the light therefore blinding the camera.

 

[ChavoLC2]

They work

From what I understand those really work by refracting the light therefore blinding the camera.

Yeah they do work.

 

[BlackoutDrunk]

red light cameras are just a bunch of crap. They are only there for revenue. Cobra has a radar detector or nav or something like that, that alerts a person to an intersection that has a red light cam. Of course the politicians were trying stop it and after a debate with Cobra finally agreed that stop light cams are only out there for plain old revenue.

Cobra set to unveil red-light camera / radar detector - Engadget

The Man can go screw himself!

 

[BlackMetal]

MythBusters did indeed "bust" all these "traffic ticket products", none of them worked. Who knows... maybe it was set-up, I doubt law enforcement would want them on TV advertising that a certain product actually WOULD fool the camera.

Frankly I love the red light cameras, especially at night when you can see the flash go off and tell when someone gets busted. There's only one intersection with the camera on my way home from work but every night it brings a smile to my face to see idiots getting tickets.

And like someone mentioned above, if you're in a "situation" like stuck behind a truck etc, that should all show up on the picture and you can fight the ticket and tell them to look at the picture and see how you got stuck in the intersection.

Obviously they aren't a fool-proof system and unfortunately some people are going to get their picture taken when they didn't purposely run the red light, but there's just no way for actual police offers to keep up with all the idiot drivers on the road. Gotta keep people in line somehow.

 

[TKGN1]

red light cameras are just a bunch of crap. They are only there for revenue. Cobra has a radar detector or nav or something like that, that alerts a person to an intersection that has a red light cam. Of course the politicians were trying stop it and after a debate with Cobra finally agreed that stop light cams are only out there for plain old revenue.

Cobra set to unveil red-light camera / radar detector - Engadget

The Man can go screw himself!

MythBusters did indeed "bust" all these "traffic ticket products", none of them worked. Who knows... maybe it was set-up, I doubt law enforcement would want them on TV advertising that a certain product actually WOULD fool the camera.

Frankly I love the red light cameras, especially at night when you can see the flash go off and tell when someone gets busted. There's only one intersection with the camera on my way home from work but every night it brings a smile to my face to see idiots getting tickets.

And like someone mentioned above, if you're in a "situation" like stuck behind a truck etc, that should all show up on the picture and you can fight the ticket and tell them to look at the picture and see how you got stuck in the intersection.

Obviously they aren't a fool-proof system and unfortunately some people are going to get their picture taken when they didn't purposely run the red light, but there's just no way for actual police offers to keep up with all the idiot drivers on the road. Gotta keep people in line somehow.

I agree with both of you guys.
While on one hand I am big "screw the MAN" its a money racket, on the other hand I think something needs to make a change.
About one year ago a local intersection has more than tripled the amount of traffic coming through it. I see at least two cars per day run a red light, pisses me off. Something needs to happen, what I don't know. But if a red light camera is what it takes to stop some dumbass from running a light and hitting my wife and kids, then by all means put it up.
I hate having to be "monitered" by big brother, but how do you control stupid people who can't follow the rules?

 

[S10xGN]

Sorry! If they help cut down on intersection wrecks, I'm all for it. I cannot count how many times I've almost been T-boned by a$$holes running reds. Happens at least twice a month here and my town has a population less than 12k. Any time people are willfully stupid, big brother gets involved.

 

[Grimster]

I'm mixed in my feelings, on one hand, there's 2 redlights within a few miles of my house that are absolutely RAMPANT with people running them, EVERY TIME THE LIGHT CHANGES to red you get at least 2 or 3 cars "pushing" through and they're extremely dangerous.

On the other hand I don't want no damned "robot" to give me a ticket. Put a real human there not a computer with no feelings and no sense of situations.

The way people around here are, if we ever got one of those I bet it'd get shot up by a fellow redneck in short order

 

[turbofish38]

What would happen if you mounted your plate at an angle where the camera couldn't read it? These cameras are only mounted 6 feet or so or higher off the ground,correct? Have the plate pointing down with a "scanmaster" type sun visor over the top edge and the camera couldn't read the numbers legibly. The plate is displayed and it's not altered so you jump through that louphole in the law.

I see a lot of sportbikes running around with the plate mounted to the bottom of the rear fender. You couldn't see them unless you were right up against the bike and looking there. Probally illegal as all hell but there would be no way a camera could read all of the numbers clearly.

 

[BandAid]

3 rys ago at Peterson and Western (Chicago) there was an accident at the intersection Clearly seen in the pictures,there was a copper standing off to the side waving everyone thru,I think was say $80,$80,$80,$80 ,I received a ticket and could not fight it since it was sent to my old address....
there is another at Foster and Pulaski ave in Chicago
oh and Cicero and Lawrence
List more in Chicago if you know...

 

[BlackoutDrunk]

I agree with both of you guys.
While on one hand I am big "screw the MAN" its a money racket, on the other hand I think something needs to make a change.
About one year ago a local intersection has more than tripled the amount of traffic coming through it. I see at least two cars per day run a red light, pisses me off. Something needs to happen, what I don't know. But if a red light camera is what it takes to stop some dumbass from running a light and hitting my wife and kids, then by all means put it up.
I hate having to be "monitered" by big brother, but how do you control stupid people who can't follow the rules?

I agree with keeping families safe and finding ways to control idiots in cars. I just have a problem with our government putting these types of devices out there under the guise of "we're doing it to save people". They are doing these things because it's an easy way to generate revenue, as if we don't pay enough taxes on everything else in our lives. I don't want a robot giving me a ticket and feel that big brother is creeping into our lives a bit too much. I also have a problem with the traffic safety van that Illinois has out on the roads in construction areas. A friend of mine is a state trooper and he hears stories all the time of people getting tickets they can't fight. I think not being able to fight a ticket is fundamentally wrong and against the constitution. A robot or automated system has no sense of situations.

Hey what the... I just found myself on my anti-establishment soap box, I'll step down.