You'd have to make one that came on for the whole time the camera was on you rather than flashing otherwise there's a good chance it would catch you between flashes as the strobe will spend far more time off than on.
Thoughts on numberplate recognition
Jan 29, 2006
26 Replies
No but that takes time and someones wages. I doubt that all non reads etc actually get looked at by a human, within the timescale required to send out the fine, only a sample. If you regularly use the "trick" then they'll start looking for you(*) but once in a blue moon...
(*) No doubt the system can also make a pretty damn good stab at vehicle recognition as a well. Number plates alone do not in anyway identify the vehicle, you need the make, model and colour as well.
It's all well and good insisting that the plate makers postcode is in 6pt moulding in the plates but that isn't going to stop back street Johny making up plates for his dubious mates. As has already been said who is going to routinely the check that ABC Motors CF4 2GB actually exists?
Totally useless legislation but dangerously giving a sense of security.
That wasn't suggested just have two plates, both valid for that make/model/colour of vehicle. Make the "false" one more prominent that the other and you may well be able to force the system to read that one more often than the real one...
Mind you displaying to different but real looking two plates is probably a very good nick nick attractor.
Have to be a suitably high frequency then either that or a microwave burst that burns up the electronics and renders it FUBAR
(chainsaw would do just as well but more conspicuous)
the flash /pusle bright light dosent work , as most are now video
Far be it from me to suggest some thing illegal or a way of circumventing the system , but it would be interesting to see what the law says on driving a 'restored ' military land rover displaying its mod plates ............ read my original post and think about it ! ( i know it works )
On or around Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:15:33 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs enlightened us thusly:
ah, but they're "show plates, not for road use"
meanwhile... the regulations about postcode apply to new plates issued after
2001. They also apply to new plates put on older vehicles. but if you replace the plates on an older vehicle and use traditional ones, you simply claim that it was done prior to 2001.But the microwaves would. and also a sufficiently bright light in the background is going to cause it to overexpose, have you ever tried taking pictures against the light ?
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