Quote: (10-10-2016 08:48 PM)XPQ22 Wrote:
Quote: (10-10-2016 08:34 PM)Easy_C Wrote:
More practical idea: throw some mud on the back of your car and make sure some of it partially obscures at least one letter of your plate.
The machine learning algorithm that the system uses to analyze the plate can probably deal with partially obscured digits. Fully obscured digits might save you from a camera, but will get you pulled over by a human cop.
The one product I've seen that might have a chance of working is a license plate frame that contains a photodetector and a ring of high-power infrared LEDs. Most CCD videocameras are sensitive to infrared light in addition to the visible spectrum, so when the photodetector senses the camera flash it flashes right black, ideally blinding the camera. They might IR filter intersection cameras though, I'm not sure. A blinder that used the visible spectrum would draw a lot of attention, and they're probably also liable to be mis-triggered.
The best technological solution that I've found to these pain-in-the-ass money grabbing hustles (Providence is full of them) is to install Waze on your phone and leave it active when you drive, it'll give you an audible alert when there's one coming up.
"Caution. Red light camera reported at next intersection"
Good call. Got the app - thanks!