11-21-2009, 08:38 AM
|
|
CC Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Newcastle, Warners Bay,
NSW
Cobra Make, Engine: RMC . 393 Dart alloy block Stroked 351 alloy heads ..all the goodies plus a pre oiler. al
Posts: 1,495
|
|
Not Ranked
Quote:
Originally Posted by Merv and Sharon
I saw these number plate 'protectors' in the States' that were made from a plastic that was claimed to have a 'prismatic' design that reduced recognition of the number to only about 100 feet and not the 1000 feet needed for laser and radar and so on. This is all a mystery to me but do/could these things actually work? The more sophisticated the punishing/taxing authorities become in the use of cameras, number plate recognition, distance timing and so on, the more protective average drivers become.
Not that I would ever contemplate such and obviously illegal device!
|
G'Day Merv, I think they were debunked on mythbusters along with several other types of number plate "diffusers" |