New way to avoid speed cameras?

Paulownia wrote: »

Take the bus! and what happened hitching, did it all the time when I was young, had some very interesting encounters too! Bester that!

Murderers and rapists happened.

Liam41105 wrote: »

Every 2 days spray hairspray over the plate. Not aldi stuff has to be top brand. Cause glare at night or bright days.

Kevin Finnerty wrote: »

Glitter nail varnish works too.

No, it doesn't.

The trick here is that a normal camera suffers 'white out'. You are not dealing with 'normal' cameras. A standard camera takes in a fairly narrow spectrum of light, basically the 'stuff' we can see. However, all speed cameras take in an extra bit of IR (To work at night) and a shade of UV. In technical terms, their cut filters are different. They also have some pretty sweet iris tech which allows them to very quickly adapt to incoming light (So that going from main to dipped beams or vice versa, still allows a photo to be taken)

So, when you add a little hairspray or glitter, yes the standard photo won't be readable to the human eye, but given they have a full frame, full spectrum photo, you can just overlay the IR and UV parts to read it anyway because your reflection won't cover the full band.

TL;DR, no matter what you do to your plate, it's likely still readable and there is ample evidence online to support this. The only question is whether someone will bother to do the extra analysis and processing even though its trivial to do.

Unusual to see a Donegal plate with proper sized letters and numbers.

ironclaw wrote: »

No, it doesn't.

The trick here is that a normal camera suffers 'white out'. You are not dealing with 'normal' cameras. A standard camera takes in a fairly narrow spectrum of light, basically the 'stuff' we can see. However, all speed cameras take in an extra bit of IR (To work at night) and a shade of UV. In technical terms, their cut filters are different. They also have some pretty sweet iris tech which allows them to very quickly adapt to incoming light (So that going from main to dipped beams or vice versa, still allows a photo to be taken)

So, when you add a little hairspray or glitter, yes the standard photo won't be readable to the human eye, but given they have a full frame, full spectrum photo, you can just overlay the IR and UV parts to read it anyway because your reflection won't cover the full band.

TL;DR, no matter what you do to your plate, it's likely still readable and there is ample evidence online to support this. The only question is whether someone will bother to do the extra analysis and processing even though its trivial to do.

Yup, mythbusters tested all of this a few years ago, including specially designed plates and not one of them worked.

Liam41105 wrote: »

Every 2 days spray hairspray over the plate. Not aldi stuff has to be top brand. Cause glare at night or bright days.

Lol, don't quit your day job there.