More sound xoggoth science - how to defeat speed cameras

[xoggoth]

You speak for yourself hoot. Personally I always get turned on by putting back those supermarket trolleys that you stack by shoving into the back of the other ones. No wonder they can get away with paying supermarket workers so little with fringe benefits like that.

[OwlHoot]

After the usual extensive research I have come up with a foolproof plan.

Film in these cameras is cheap and not very discriminating as regards colour. Therefore, if you go through them at 45.6% the speed of light the consequent doppler shift will ensure that they are unable to distinguish the yellow or white surround from the black numbers on your number plate.

Reading this thread and xog's other about the skinny dippers I was struck, or cross-fertilized if you like, by an idea for another foolproof camera-dodging scheme: buttock-shaped number plates.

I'm not suggesting a camera could be embarrased or anything, but perhaps the cheek angle might deflect enough light to make the plate unreadable by machine even though it would pass the DoT legibility tests.

Also, "buttock plates" as I call them would discourage tail gaters, as no one wants to drive up someone else's arse.

[datestamp]

Tuned to vascar

Unfortunately, Vascar is done by human eye and the push of an electronic button. Impossible to fool.

But with a Gatso, all you need is a radar detector that activates black pixels on an lcd cover over your plates - then you're home and dry.

[motoukenin]

An even better way

I am selling Japaneese number plates to anyone interested , let them try deciphering them and then calling the registry here to find out who they belong too.

Prices start at 10000 Yen

[Rebecca Loos]

it's not that hard:
http://www.gadgetsuk.com/Photo-block...y-p-16685.html

[MrsGoof]

The answer may be in the movies

1/
James bond had a revolving number plate on a DB5/6, so all you have to do is rotate the number plate whist speeding through the camera and then rotate it back afterwards.

2/
There was a movie where a gambler cheated by modifying the printing plates for cards. Then whilst playing he could ID the cards as they were marked.
So either hack the software these things run.

[SupremeSpod]

An alternative I had considered for radar traps was a radar TRANSMITTER mounted in the car. Tuned to vascar (or whatever it is) frequency.

Imagine coppers face when his gun is showing a speed of 500 mph or speed of sound/light whatever.

or a massive directional EMP generator under your bonnet!

[The Lone Gunman]

An alternative I had considered for radar traps was a radar TRANSMITTER mounted in the car. Tuned to vascar (or whatever it is) frequency.

Imagine coppers face when his gun is showing a speed of 500 mph or speed of sound/light whatever.

[SupremeSpod]

The only way to beat the speed cameras is....

Have a powered plate made up of LEDs that are either black or yellow when not powered but all black or all yellow when powered and make up your plate from these.
Build a circuit to strobe these fast enough for the human eye to see a constant plate, but a speed camera will only get a black or yellow bar.

High intensity infra-red source behind the number plate and a heart-beat monitor to explode your car when the police shoot you in the back of the head 8 times for doing 34 in a 30 limit.

[The Lone Gunman]

The only way to beat the speed cameras is....

Have a powered plate made up of LEDs that are either black or yellow when not powered but all black or all yellow when powered and make up your plate from these.
Build a circuit to strobe these fast enough for the human eye to see a constant plate, but a speed camera will only get a black or yellow bar.

[GiGo]

After the usual extensive research I have come up with a foolproof plan..

Drive more slowly?

[datestamp]

I think that if you were travelling that fast, your number plates would fall off.

[threaded]

The idea has merit, but I think not for the same reasons...

The black and white of the numberplate are only at the wavelengths detected by the human eye. The film used in speed cameras is more sensitive to ultraviolet, so going faster may actually aid them.

There again, digital speed cameras use sensors that are more sensitive to infrared. If your car was going quite that fast the whole front of the car would glow white hot, thereby blinding that camera.

[xoggoth]

After the usual extensive research I have come up with a foolproof plan.

Film in these cameras is cheap and not very discriminating as regards colour. Therefore, if you go through them at 45.6% the speed of light the consequent doppler shift will ensure that they are unable to distinguish the yellow or white surround from the black numbers on your number plate.