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On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:27:39 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:58:12 -0000, "ian field"
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:50:19 -0000, "ian field"
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"Jim Thompson" wrote
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On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:38:41 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:25:21 +0000, Raveninghorde
raveninghorde@invalid wrote:

On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:07:33 -0700, Jim Thompson
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Coming Soon th the USA...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...er/7876308.stm

Big brother at its finest :-(

...Jim Thompson

The restriction on tinted windows in the UK is so surveilance and
speed camaras can get a clear picture of the driver.

I know. We have the same issue in AZ (*)

I'm open to suggestions as to how to make photo of driver or plate
impossible, yet pass a visual check.

If the picture is taken with a flash than install a flash or two
near
the
licence plate, trigger on incoming flash and fire back and fire back.

[snip]

Thought of that. Wonder what their aperture time is?

Also thought of "corner reflectors" like on bicycles.

How about my face ?:-)

To crack the camera?


Naaaah! That's what the Janet Napolitano mask is for.

But that's a driving distraction... limits peripheral vision.

At the speeds I drive I need a clear view ;-)

Come on, engineers, what's the solution ?:-)


Slave flash as someone already suggested.

In the UK Gatso cameras take 2 pictures at a timed interval to prove
distance travelled over the timed period, so you need 2 slave flashes,
I'd
suggest sensing the recharge current from the first flash to enable the
second flash so they don't both go off on the first flash.

If both slaves flash on the first Gatso flash then the second flash gets
your number and they nick you for attempting to pervert the course of
justice.


In AZ there's one flash from the front (to get your face... ID the
driver) and one flash in back (to get the plate).

I thought immediately of a slave flash, that having been one of my
first projects when I was a kid in the '50's (flashing Press 25's,
camera was Argus C-4 ;-)

Of course it was land-bound... photo toooob, etc.

I didn't have a strobe until a few years later.

I'll have to experiment here... wonder what a slave flash does to a
digital camera?

Also have to figure a way to keep the flash output above eye level of
other drivers. Otherwise I'd get sued for sure in our litigious
society.

...Jim Thompson


If you are planning on breaking the law by circumventing a camera shot
of your tag for running a red light, then I am quite sure that your
concern for other drivers' eyes are nil as you traipse through the
intersection as well.

****ing retards.

It is illegal to obscure your tag. 100% of the time. That is both from
human observance or any other ****ing method.

Idiots like you are going to usher in bluetooth ID of ALL cars, and big
brother will know where ALL of you idiots are at ALL times.

Someone probably *SHOULD* know where you are at all times!