Photo Radar red light camera license plate spray
25 Oct 2008
Male Speaker1: Pictures are typically fun to get in the mail unless there are viewed speeding or running a red light accompanied by a ticket.
Female Speaker1: Those are not [Inaudible] to get but now dozens of companies sell products promising to make your car unidentifiable to law enforcement cameras that do their work and are they legal? The trouble shooter investigates these new products and has the new you need to know before buying. Here is Fox 31’s Tom Martino.
Tom Martino: You know what that white band means? You know what the flash means and I guess you know what this means? This guy isn’t happy he got caught by photo radar. Cameras do a good job catching law breakers some speeders like showing their feelings when they are caught others try to beat the system if you want to protect your rear end keep it in the car and take a look at some products that promise to outsmart photo radar. Two of the products are special plate covers, one is a special spray, do they really disguise your license plate numbers? We put these to the test to find out. The Denver police Department agreed to help us with other test.
Male Speaker2: Well what we did is we went out the Denver Police driving truck that we set up a simulated 20 mile an hour speed limit.
Tom Martino We tested all three devices using this city’s photo radar equipment did they work here are the phots from our test drive. The first plate cover looks like a prism and is supposed to distort plate numbers when viewed from an angle. Their second plate cover has reflective sparkles and it did a better job the flash reflected off the sparkle so the plate number was over exposed in the picture. The third product is a spray that worked really well. It puts a high gloss finish on your plate which causes a reflection and that makes the plate over exposed. So if you are going to use a plate blocker I suggest this spray the reflective spray does not obstruct plate number from the naked eye at all and nowhere the laws does it say your plate must be photogenic besides officers would not even notice it. There will always be some who was then the big brother approach to law enforcement. Where do you stand I am Trouble Shooter Tom Martino Fox 31 news.
Female Speaker1: Well Tom got the products he tested from phantomplate.com