Dodgy number plates

According to that one RPU garda, yes, imminently.

Fairly illegible dodgy plate seen on a taxi this morning

Overhead cameras are at an angle, car mounted cameras aren't.

The jutting out "gel" creates shadows and makes reading at any angle harder.

The camera array on the M50 is all overhead.

There are no other barrier free tolls.

People only get these prat-plates (gel, or grey on grey) because they think it will evade some form of detection.

Sounds like pure scutter out of him. If the toll cameras can't read them they have massive resources to make sure they rectify that and get their tolls and/or fines

Toll well able to read 3d plates. Toll also has rear number plate cameras. Anything that is not read fully by camera is flagged for manual check where bother front and rear images can be checked. A manual check can also cross reference make/colour so that they can be near 100% sure

M50 cameras can still ID a car… it's happened already.... Photos can be zoomed into.

Fella in the carpark told me 3D plates can be read by M50… didn't ask him about the 4D but i'm sure it's the same..

Yea I think the whole 3/4D plates to avoid the law is a load of rubbish, any crim would be using cloned plates or a stolen car for that..and i'd rather see Garda resources chasing down criminals rather than some lad who wanted a set of nice plates on the car..

Can you point out these "nice plates"? Cause grey on grey illegibles or lego-block gel plates aren't nice. They weren't designed to be. They're both exceptionally ugly and deliberately non-functional for their purpose.

The point isn't that it's to disguise the car because it has been used in commission of a crime; it's to blur the edges (literally) and potentially not be identified by a speed camera / toll camera / dashcam if driving like as much of a muppet as the owner of such prat-plates is likely to do.

Also, we now have two people claiming to have spoken to someone in a car park being treated as if they're authoritative sources!

We all get it you don't like "Prat plates" that point you have made very very clear.

You will always have a certain percentage who would have them in the hope that they would stop them getting caught by the speeding vans or tolls. Because someone in a carpark told them it would work.

People will do stupid things in the hope it stops them getting caught speeding and the likes. E

Remember back in the day when CDs were meant to interfere with the guards speed gun. A lot of cars hung cds off their rear view windscreen at the time

Remember the anti flash paint which was meant to oversaturated an image when there was a flash photo being taken. I bought a can of that years ago and everyone around wanted a go of it .

I don’t care about that. Just pointing out that generally people don’t fit them to evade cameras😂