What is the story with them? Are people actually getting away with having them? its taking the piss in my opinion as are the people with no front number plate.
To test the image quality of a camera, you can point it at a paper target with different features printed on it, and check how those features look on screen.
If it's an infrared camera (M50 toll / speed camera) that you're testing, and you use the wrong type of ink, most of the infrared light will pass through it, and it'll be difficult/impossible to see the features (ie: reg plate) from the camera, but you can easily see with your eyes.
Similar to how the black plastic numbering used on 4D reg plate, might just happen π to be the same material that's used on the tip of a TV remote control. (black to your eyes, but transmissive to IR light).
What do u mean designed targets
Gardai should be enforcing it. If you're trying to reduce the contrast of your reg, you have something to hide. California for example allow you to pay per year, for Black/Yellow plate. Good contrast, looks good on black cars.
In any case, if you wanted to evade cameras, there is a much easier way to do so than to use a dark plate. I've designed targets to test infrared cameras, and it's far easier to do than you'd think.
I've seen that on a car that regularly parks near me, but a few days later it was complete again. Just crap plates with number falling off I assume.
Is there widespread attempts at evading cameras going on
ive started to see a lot of people with the "4d" plates with numbers "missing", but differing on front and back plates.
ie.
221 d 12345 would be the plate front might be 221 d 2 45 back might be 2 1 d 123 5
might be crap plates, but, ive seen it a lot more then i thought i would just in the past week.
The ones with the plates obscured with muck and dust are crafty enough
yes
I travel the M50 every weekday for work, and the amount of trailers with no registration plate, or one not matching the cab is getting more and more common. It's like the drivers don't care, as the chances of being pulled over are probably zero.
Yes and on new cars
Seen a good few black on dark grey plates that are barely legible, a sign of the increasingly lawlessness on the road.
This should be a no BS policy specific design, font size and even the smallest change from it is penalty and fines.
There are plenty of vanity plates on the road and most have in the slightest way reduced the font size or introduced flourishes and italics that overall make the reg harder to read.
Can they be read by speed cameras?
Motor factors or online websites
Where do people get these tinted plates in the first place.
unreal, dont know what the craic is.... maybe it's a monkey see, monkey do kind of thing.... like smoking back in the day lol
They donβt look as bad on the Dutch plates for some reason, think the font is different or they donβt have the letters as thick as you see here.
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It's revenue legislation so it won't have any repercussions for insurance.
I assume the motorist concerned informs their insurer that they are not complying with legislation
The raised plates look awful in my opinion.
Plenty of the significantly raised 3d plates in the Netherlands last few times I've been there. Haven't seen italics though.
I saw a 07 turned into Q7 on a BMW once.
Theres plenty of illegal plates in the UK, incorrect spacing, incorrect sizing, 4D etc.
Just curious if there is anything like this outside of Ireland. I'm sure it happens in countries lower down on the development index, but for sake of argument, has anyone ever seen unapproved number plates in another OECD country?
I know I'm more likely to see this sort of thing in Ireland as I live here, but I've travelled a reasonable bit and never seen modified plates in any other country. The closest I've seen is personalised "cherished" plates in the UK, but they're still legal, and conform to the law on size, font, colour, etc.
Ireland seems to be a free-for-all... grey-tinted plates, yellow plates (a Donegal and Monaghan specialty), and squirly unreadable fancy handwriting fonts.
Those were probably just garage display plates. Car could have been out on a test drive.
saw a 231 BMW SUV - WHITE with no plate with just black 231 C xxx - no euro or county name - it looked really well on a white car but obviously totally illegal and dont approve
Sometimes trucks forget or the reg falls off
Other times there is no way to hold the reg on the trailer as shape is wrong or fixings are missing. No excuse but I think there is mitigating circumstances. They may pull multiple trailers per day and it's hassle to create a holder on old worn trailers.
Back in the late 80's people would buy a new car in November/December and drive around in it with "For Reg" as the number plate until January when they would register the car, thus getting them a car cheaper because dealers gave better deals at year end. This was eventually clamped down on.
I wondered just that myself this morning as I saw the third truck in as many journeys without a number plate on the trailer.
Was on the cab though.
