Red light paint

[D._Frederick]

There is an add in a car magazine that is pushing a spray paint that makes car license plate invisible to red lite cameras they claim for the price of $30.

Anybody know any thing about this paint that makes numbers unreadable by reflecting to much light for the camera to handle, there claim?

My closest town now has a camera on most stop lights, $200 + if the thing flashes.

[timerover51]

Unless it covers the entire plate with the same color of paint, and makes it totally unreadable, they are conning everyone for the $30 bucks a can.  Of course, if the plate is that unreadable, first cop that sees that is going to nail your hide for considerably more than $30 bucks.  Live with the cameras, or avoid making right turns on red.

[DanG]

Live with the cameras, or avoid making right turns on red.

Or, you could get busy and elect some officials who are more creative in managing YOUR money than to resort to robotic robbery. >:(

[red oaks lumber]

life for me became alot  simplier when i just started following the rules(laws)i don't miss the cherries & blueberries!

[timerover51]

Live with the cameras, or avoid making right turns on red.

Or, you could get busy and elect some officials who are more creative in managing YOUR money than to resort to robotic robbery. >:(

That is actually the best option, DanG.

[Brad_bb]

Yep, all those things are bunk.  Get involved and get people elected who will get rid of the cameras.

[scgargoyle]

What is the purpose of red lights anyway? Why not just let everyone do what they want? Sorry, but I'm amazed that people get defensive about their right to break the law. If folks would stop like you're supposed to, the red light camera would never have been invented. Having been in a serious accident when someone ran a red light, I guess I'm a little defensive about my point of view. Both cars totaled; if I had a passenger, they would have died, and the passenger door caved in so far, it hit me in the hip. I live in the most crowded county in FL, and I see red light runners every day. I had to learn to wait and look around before proceeding through a green light.

[SwampDonkey]

http://camerafraud.wordpress.com


You can turn right on red in NB, if you stop first.

[isawlogs]

  You can also in Quebec, but not on the island of Montreal   :

[D Hagens]

We have no traffic lights on the island where I have my cabin Think there's only 2 stop signs

[D._Frederick]

Its a money maker for the town fathers, they don't own the cameras, but get a cut of the fines. Since the hiway were the cameras are is a state hiway, they get fines from out-of-towners.

Soon as they put the cameras in, they shorten the length of the yellow lite too catch people being in the intersection on red. People are now slamming on the brakes resulting in more rear end collisions. 

I wish that the paint would do the trick and make the license numbers non readable, but I am afraid that it is fraud. 

[SwampDonkey]

Kinda like those guys that go around with a can of $25 aluminum paint to "fix" your roof and charge $400 after 45 minutes. My uncle was one of those suckers. I would never have paid it and pointed a barrel at his nose.

[doctorb]

In a previous thread on speed cameras, isawlogs suggested using a bike rack to make the liscence plate unreadable, if you are so inclined.  The sprays don't work, and covers are illegal in most places.

[Dodgy Loner]

I don't have a problem with a police officer pulling someone over for running a red light, but I have a big problem with red light cameras that are only there to produce income for the government. They do not make the roads safer, and in fact multiple studies have confirmed just the opposite: red light cameras increase traffic accidents. >:(

[Brad_bb]

Yes, Red Light Cameras are not about public safety at all - it's all about revenue.  Here in the spend tax spend state of Illinois, they started installing red light cameras in the Chicago area and working their way further out.  The average yellow light is 6 seconds.  So they installed the cameras and lowered the yellow light timing to 4 seconds, the minimum allowed by state law.  If that doesn't seem like much, see how far you travel going 35 or 40 MPG for 2 seconds.  Well of course that catches people off guard.  Of course the lights at the nearest intersections in any direction are still at 6 seconds.  So they do it to fool people and issue more tickets.  The people start to slam on their brakes when it turns yellow, and they get rear ended.  Multiple studies have proven that these cameras cause more accidents, typically those rear end accidents than if they weren't there.  It's a revenue game plain and simple.