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red light cameras: products to avoid them??
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June 27th 05, 10:43 PM
Alex Rodriguez
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In article <jp2ve.1975$Uc2.1677@trnddc03>,
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>Theres a spray which makes your license plate super reflective whereas the
>camera will blind itself from its own flash thus making your plate appear
>washed out or overexposed.
What about during the day when there is no flash? Has anyone actually tested
this miracle spray or are they just repeating the manufacturers advertising
hype?
>Another product is a lens which covers your plate so it is visible straight
>on but at angles parts of the numbers blacked out. I got a $50 ticket for
>having this on my car fro obscuring my plate!.
I know that in NY state any cover, even plain old clear plastic with no
pretension of defeating red light cameras, is illegal.
>In my city they have the yellow times set .1 second below federal guidelines
>and a lot of us got off. The guidelines are 3.0-6.0 seconds of yellow time.
How did you figuer that out? .1 second is an awfully short period of time
to try to time by hand.
>You wont get off the ticket even if you move out of the way of an ambulance.
>Seen it.
Here in NYC moving for an emergency vehicle is a valid excuse. You still have
to waste a day of your time going to the 'court' to take care of this.
>You also should get used to the idea of making yellow your color of choice
>for stopping in addition to red.
This is often impractical.
>Sure you'll get ass-ended one of these
>times, but you'll not be at fault for stopping.
I rather be wrong and not in accident than being right and getting rear ended.
>There are other products like a system that flashes back. The red light
>camera guys have made flashless cameras to defeat all that.
Again, I don't see this working during daytime hours.
>You could program your GPS to remind you your approaching an intersection
>with one of those cameras or learn to get good with a paintball gun.
Interesting idea.
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Alex
Alex Rodriguez
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