And the flocks are IR cameras, so better would be broadcasting a ton of IR light around your license plate. That being said, the camera also looks for type/size of rims and tires, window tint, visible damage, bumper stickers, dirt level, so while your license plate blocking may stop it from looking you up it won’t stop it from tracking where you’re going
It’ll pretty much only do anything against a camera using a flash in the dark and even then that’s probably only marginal. In normal daytime illumination everyone and every thing will still be able to see your plate just fine.
I think I’d rather get a color e-ink display from China and mount it in a fake license plate frame, with a microcontroller behind it displaying a random assortment of plate styles and numbers as you drive along. If you see the 5-0, flip a the switch to lock it to your real plate number until they go away.
Unless your e-ink display has some pretty magical properties, it’s going to be spotted by a cop at random sooner or later, whether that’s at a traffic light, on the highway behind you, or even if they just roll by at a parking lot.
Plus, I can assure you that the technology to instantly alert if a car shows a registration for, let’s say a blue honda, but looks like a red ford, has been around for longer than flock has been in the news. It’s why that shit with texas temporary license plates was such a big deal (you’d see them everywhere throughout the continent). Unless you have a way to know what other cars similar to yours have for their license plates, you’re going to get nabbed. And most places make your switching thing a pretty big deal as far as punishments go.
Allow me to introduce you to the magic world of pdlc, and especially pdlc in the same size as your license plates. Its not even that expensive and can be flipped from a switch as well.
Couldn’t you make it automatic and do it. Don’t get have devices that detect all the wireless crap going on in a police car? For educational purposes only of course
You would need a mix of IR absorbing material and IR reflective material like what they use in Zenni ID guard glasses.
An easier way to go about it would just be to install a bright IR light pointed at your plate, it would create a glare that would make it impossible for the camera to read.
I have an IR scope for one of my rifles and thought it would be a bright idea to install a IR flashlight to help boost the field of vision… The flashlight I got was so bright that it just tuned the whole image white.
So there are things that would work, but it would probably get you in more trouble than anything. It’s illegal in every state to attempt to obscure your tags from being tracked in any way.
This is my right. It’d be pretty simple to install a small ring of IR LED around your plate and wire them into the car lights and a back up battery in the trunk. Basically keep it glowing 24/7. Probably like, 30 bucks in hardware from Ali to start from scratch.
Kind of wonder what it’d be like to frame he whole car in it. Like a ghostly kia soul.
Might be a way to get around the intentional blocking of your plate. If you installed a bright enough IR light bar on the roof of your car pointing down the front and back… You would probably just show up as a moving block of light, might not even be recognized as a car by the AI.
Didn’t Mythbusters test all of these covers and coatings in like 2004 and basically none of them worked against a traffic cam of that era?
Yes. You also need a ring of high intensity white LEDs pointed at your plate.
And the flocks are IR cameras, so better would be broadcasting a ton of IR light around your license plate. That being said, the camera also looks for type/size of rims and tires, window tint, visible damage, bumper stickers, dirt level, so while your license plate blocking may stop it from looking you up it won’t stop it from tracking where you’re going
It’ll pretty much only do anything against a camera using a flash in the dark and even then that’s probably only marginal. In normal daytime illumination everyone and every thing will still be able to see your plate just fine.
I think I’d rather get a color e-ink display from China and mount it in a fake license plate frame, with a microcontroller behind it displaying a random assortment of plate styles and numbers as you drive along. If you see the 5-0, flip a the switch to lock it to your real plate number until they go away.
Cops have car mounted plate readers. If you see them, its already too late.
Also, you won’t see the drone
And the ICE guy waiting to shoot you in the face
Unless your e-ink display has some pretty magical properties, it’s going to be spotted by a cop at random sooner or later, whether that’s at a traffic light, on the highway behind you, or even if they just roll by at a parking lot.
Plus, I can assure you that the technology to instantly alert if a car shows a registration for, let’s say a blue honda, but looks like a red ford, has been around for longer than flock has been in the news. It’s why that shit with texas temporary license plates was such a big deal (you’d see them everywhere throughout the continent). Unless you have a way to know what other cars similar to yours have for their license plates, you’re going to get nabbed. And most places make your switching thing a pretty big deal as far as punishments go.
Allow me to introduce you to the magic world of pdlc, and especially pdlc in the same size as your license plates. Its not even that expensive and can be flipped from a switch as well.
https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ew79cNM
Now we need a program that automaticaly turns it on when by a camera.
Or just https://www.vortexradar.com/2016/03/nophoto-review/
Tie it to the map deflock runs?
Couldn’t you make it automatic and do it. Don’t get have devices that detect all the wireless crap going on in a police car? For educational purposes only of course
You would need a mix of IR absorbing material and IR reflective material like what they use in Zenni ID guard glasses.
An easier way to go about it would just be to install a bright IR light pointed at your plate, it would create a glare that would make it impossible for the camera to read.
I have an IR scope for one of my rifles and thought it would be a bright idea to install a IR flashlight to help boost the field of vision… The flashlight I got was so bright that it just tuned the whole image white.
So there are things that would work, but it would probably get you in more trouble than anything. It’s illegal in every state to attempt to obscure your tags from being tracked in any way.
This is my right. It’d be pretty simple to install a small ring of IR LED around your plate and wire them into the car lights and a back up battery in the trunk. Basically keep it glowing 24/7. Probably like, 30 bucks in hardware from Ali to start from scratch.
Kind of wonder what it’d be like to frame he whole car in it. Like a ghostly kia soul.
Might be a way to get around the intentional blocking of your plate. If you installed a bright enough IR light bar on the roof of your car pointing down the front and back… You would probably just show up as a moving block of light, might not even be recognized as a car by the AI.
I’m willing to bet if it did do something useful, you would just make yourself a target for frequent stops by cops.
If you want to beat camera that flash, set up a camera flash in slave mode pointing at your plate. It will overexpose it
They did, but I always took it with the notion that if they did find something that worked it would never be allowed to air.