Has anyone here installed a photo blocker on your license plates? And how well do they work?
http://www.ioffer.com/i/PHOTOBLOCKER...PRAY--12082752

I was at a stop light the other day and after it went green traffic started moving, then as I was just about the clear the intersection the traffic managed to get backed up. While I was sitting in the middle of the intersection just as the light turned yellow, so I had to go around another truck to get out of there, but I was halfway through it when the light turned red. And I noticed there where 4 camera units on the corners of the street. So I'm not sure if I got caught by a camera or not. I didn't see any flashes.

I just can't afford anymore moving violation on my insurance. Just wondering if you guys have something similar or what?

 

From what I have heard from people who have them and have gotten tickets, they do not work. The blocker only distorts the image of your plate...most traffic cameras now have a filter on them to un-distort/clear up the image.

 

a local news company had done research on this product... and it failed.

 

...not to mention that it illegal in most states to have any kind of cover or coating on the license plate.

 

Yeah I recently learned that the paint on the license plate improves the accuracy on a radar gun.
Well if the photo blockers don't work what about that special glass that turns opaque when you pass a current through it. I saw a video of a Lambo with this installed and it worked great. I wonder who sells this glass?

 

that would be cool to have.

 

The first time I heard about that glass was a few years ago. When stop light, and speed cameras started to gain in popularity, I thought about the doing just that. Once again someone beat me to the punch.
I don't condone breaking the law, I just don't like "big brother" always being there looking over my shoulder. Our freedoms are getting stripped away from us more and more each day, and we don't even realize it.

 

Do you guys know the name of the manufacture who makes this glass?
I would like to order sample for testing...

 

Not only is it our freedoms, but our MONEY is being treated in the same way. Here in Melbourne, there are speed cameras EVERYWHERE. Anyone who thinks the Guvmint gives a rats a$$ about "safety" is kidding themselves, its just another form of TAX in disguise.

Its an election issue here and the election is next month.

We'll see.

XFYRED

 

I have a great Idea.
We all have a neighbor we don't like right?
Go out at 3 AM and steal their plate. Put it on your car and go run some lights.
Then put the plate back!


Just kidding.


I think the cameras are bull crud!
I have seen people slam on the brakes and skid because of being afraid of getting a ticket when they had plenty of time to go through the light.
We have 3 intersections down the street with them.
There are no less accidents there either.
Scary unsafe stuff...

 

Does anyone here know where I can get the electro-luminescent glass? I really want to make one of these plate blockers.

 

See if you can get a sample...

http://www.switchlite.com/home.html

It says that it requires 100 volts (but only 3.5w/square meter) and is normally opaque until you apply current. You'd be best off rigging some sort of ballast to a relay triggered by your ignition.

 

Right on man, thanks for the link! I'll see what I can get out of them...

 

Those cameras suck. The government isn't the only one making the money, the cameras are leased from a company that maintains them, and in turn, takes a substantial part of the revenue. In fact, most cameras cost the government nothing at all. The company provides the camera, downloads the info, and gives it to the MVA (or DMV) to send you a ticket. As far as accidents are concerned, they actually CAUSE more fender bender accidents than traditional stop lights. They have been caught re-timing the lights to increase revenues (shorten the yellows). This causes more accidents. The CAN reduce fatal side impacts, but if an intersection is that dangerous so it is prone to fatal accidents, then it should be redesigned or the light timing changed. Speed cameras do nothing but cause traffic to back up behind them, because the twits figure they better drive 10 mph under the limit so they don't trigger the camera.
I'm waiting for the day when they use and EZ-Pass like system to mail you tickets on the highway, and sensors on every overpass, overhead sign, or even street light.

 

What happens when your neighbor borrows your car? How do you give them the ticket?
I am against them and vote that way. You are suppose to ticket the person breaking the law not the car. If it worked that way then the gun should be charged with murder not the person who pulled the trigger!

 

Many of the red light camera systems down here have two cameras in the back (one zoomed in on the license plate, and one wide angle showing the traffic signal and the car at the same time), AND a camera in the front to capture who the driver who perpetrated the infraction. Same with the speed cameras. However, you own the car, it's your responsibility for who is driving it. If they run a red and get caught, well, its your car, you know who is responsible for paying the fine. I know rental car companies can forward the ticket, I don't know about anybody else.

 

The cameras they use are very good, and often get a crystal-clear picture of the driver. In Phoenix, some tickets are placed on the vehicle (kind of a fine you have to pay before the DMV will re-register your car) and others are placed on the driver (but many people will just say that they don't recognized the driver). The tickets always come via regular mail and if you choose to ignore it, they will have someone serve you. The trick is to just not answer the door when they come by.

 

I disagree... as the owner of the car, gun or whatever, you have the ultimate responsibility and should be held responsible in the end. The car or gun is not being ticketed... the owner is. If the person you lent your car to is someone that won't step up and take responsibility for their actions... hey, you lent the idiot your car, you pay for it. I know that if he was involved in an accident... you as the owner of the vehicle are also held responsible if anyone sues.

Two things I would NEVER do:

- lend my car or use some else's (except rentals)
- lend money to family or friends

In both cases, you loose if something goes wrong.

Just my .02 cents.

 

Ben, since we're not officially friends, can I borrow a few bucks? Agreed, I try not to borrow or let people borrow my vehicles. It's just not smart, something may happen and it inevitably gets sticky from there out. I'm not an advocate of the speed camera's and I've already written to my State Rep indicating that I would like them banned. If I'm not mistaken, I've heard that our neighbors in Virginia had them banned (please correct me if that is not correct). I also have had the dubious experience of electronic ticketing in Holland, where the highways have speed camera's to regulate speed. To be honest, it works, but I got to the point I'd rather take the train than drive. I know that's dinosaur thinking, but it just gets to feel a little to Big Brotherish to me.

 

Wrong. The driver creates the infraction. And where does it say because I own a vehicle it is my responsibility to know who is driving it? Most would but were is it the law? If I own a service company with 25 trucks my employee grabs the keys today for truck 12 and off he goes. When I get notified a month later of an infraction how am I guilty of anything. The truck did not break the law the driver did! And that was who?
The examples given are flawed but if I used the logic sited then if I own a grocery store and during a robbery someone is shot can I be charged? Don't confuse suing and guilt of a crime or infraction. Speeding or running a red light is an infraction against the operator not the owner of a vehicle that is why points go on the operator's license not the registration. If I own a trucking company and all the trucks, and my driver speeds and he gets pulled over he gets the ticket. Now if we are saving money and not using officers but rather a camera nothing changes, the owner of the truck has done nothing wrong. Trust me that is why I will fight this legislation if it comes up in New York state for use upstate.