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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: Brian894X4] #880813 04/14/08 07:56 PM
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The UAE already has mandatory GPS that is plotted against the map and speed limit. IBM built the system and is you tamper with the GPS it's off with your head <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />


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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: LRJ4x4] #880814 04/15/08 12:01 AM
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Mount a photo slave multi-flash with the reflector removed from the bulb in your handle assy. This will trigger when the infrared super flash in the redlight camera triggers, and white out the tag# with overexposure in the photo. Or just run a very bright bulb with an infrared pass filter over it to keep it from being seen by the following cop.

A similar system can be used for laser doppler speed guns. I used to run a single great big offroad light, on all the time, with the infrared pass filter. This will confuse the laser detector long enough for you to spot the cop with the gun and slow down, especially if you have a laser detector. I always wondered if you could do the same with a big infrared led display on the front of the truck. Guess you'd have to know the laser gun freq, but that's just an FOI request away.


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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: fasteddy] #880815 04/15/08 12:35 AM
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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: LRJ4x4] #880816 04/15/08 12:45 AM
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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: CapnCrunch] #880817 04/15/08 01:05 AM
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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: CapnCrunch] #880818 04/15/08 01:14 AM
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They dont call him fasteddy for nothing.

On Top Gear, they ran a TVR fast enough the speed camera did not even take a pic. It was on a runway, not the road. It is on youtube somewhere.


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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: fasteddy] #880819 04/15/08 09:28 PM
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A similar system can be used for laser doppler speed guns. I used to run a single great big offroad light, on all the time, with the infrared pass filter. This will confuse the laser detector long enough for you to spot the cop with the gun and slow down, especially if you have a laser detector. I always wondered if you could do the same with a big infrared led display on the front of the truck. Guess you'd have to know the laser gun freq, but that's just an FOI request away.


Never heard of a laser doppler speed gun. It's been a few years for me, but doppler is in reference to the radar and I know those are pretty easy to confuse. Heck, they pick up misc. emissions just sitting in the car. The engine or heater fan for example, will sometimes make it activate. The doppler part is the sound that the radar gun makes as the target approaches the gun and this how the Officer is suppose to distinquish different vehicles and whether or not the reading is from an actual moving target or something else.

But if you're going fast enough or your vehicle is large enough, unless you're really putting out a strong scrambler, the radar will still likely pick up the vehicle.

Laser is entirely different from radar and the Officer usually has a scope/gun type site and aims directly at a specific target vehicle and usually aims at a point on the vehicle that is particular reflective, such as a front license plate. The beam is so narrow and target so specific, that I've never understood the point of the laser detectors. By the time the detector picks it up, the entire vehicle is already been read.

I imagine there are ways to defeat laser as well. Making the front of the vehicle "stealth" or at least non-reflective to laser as possible would probably help.

I'm not sure how the infared light works, but it sounds interesting. Not that I need any of that stuff.


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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: sparkem] #880820 04/15/08 09:44 PM
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Eddy - I was reading an article in one of the government technology magazines today. It seems that many of the latest license plate detection use plain ol' cameras. The cameras provide input to a software program that looks for license plates. Once a plate is detected some OCR software takes over and reads the plate. This is similar to some facial recognition systems employed in the UK (and probably in locations in the US). <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />


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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: MarkG] #880821 04/15/08 10:10 PM
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I can remember a Car and Driver article where they tested what Eddy explained with the offroad light. Maybe 10-15 years ago, if I remember.

It was a $50 light with a $5 filter, and it worked as good as some of the high end blockers at $300+.

Always wondered how it would fare against newer stuff.


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Re: Cities shorten yellow lights to increase automatic tickets [Re: RichinROA] #880822 04/15/08 11:47 PM
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Some well placed mud should work <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


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