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Sunday, March 11, 2007
Drop in red light tickets and rear end collisions
It's like I always tell people about Photo enforcement cameras is that if the amber time is under what is allowable by law.Then you don't have enough time to stop with out triggering off the flash that takes the picture of your plate. like I seen in an article on the National Motorist Association blog is that in Corpus Christi last year when the increased the amber by three quarters of a second a forty percent decrease in rear end collisions will follow as well as less tickets.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Plate Wire Road Rage No More
Have you ever had road rage before if you said yes then you need to log on to www.Platewire.com simply report that driver and his plate and tell the world what you are thinking get it off your chest.This way the hate can't get the best of you it's very enlightening and allows you to move on. So next time you get cut off give it a try.You have nothing to lose this is a free service and will allow you to feel good about yourself again.Platewire Has been in the news across the country and is growing every single day by leaps and bounds with the help of angry motorists that need to off load their feelings. always use caution while driving.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
More red light cameras for New Jersey Drivers
According to fox 5 news New York there are lots more cameras coming to a town near you in new Jersey. I'm sure you are full of joy to learn that more cameras that do not work are on the way to cause problems for expecting drivers who are trying to do the right thing and just can't seem to stop on time with the time the way it is. This is wrong and needs to be corected. you can drive like you are being watched witch will eventually get you killed if you hit the brake to hard and the light has not fully changed yet.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Watch for the eye in the sky
There are cameras everywhere this day and age but what are they watching anyway.
Safety is one thing but to watch to give tickets and pray on the weak when it is the system that is flawed is just plain wrong if you would like to know where these cameras and lights are go to www.motorists.org
PS this is a camera shot from a bus going to a park in Disney World. Is there any place that's safe from the eye in the sky. In the park is one thing but to give tickets to people who are visiting is another story please tell you stories we would love to hear
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Dont Get hit from behind
Becareful when stopping short on first sign of yellow You mabe struck from behind.This is happining more and more each and every day this is due to bad yellow light timing.
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Reveiw in Los Angles Times latimes.com
YOUR WHEELS
Fuzzing up the policing picture
A license-plate spray thwarts cameras set up to catch drivers running red lights.
But what of safety -- and the law?
By Jeanne Wright, Special to The Times - Jan 5 2005
A product that hides license plates from traffic-enforcement cameras at intersections may appeal to those frustrated by malfunctioning cameras but poses a major safety threat from those who hope to use it to slip through red lights.
For $30 a can, Photoblocker sprays on a high-gloss permanent reflective finish on a license plate.
"The glossy surface acts as a mirror to reflect a photo-radar flash back to the camera, overexposing the image," says Joe Scott, marketing director at PhantomPlate Inc., maker of the spray. As a result, the plate is unreadable and the driver avoids an expensive citation, usually in the hundreds of dollars.
Whether it's legal or not in California is unclear. LAPD spokesman Jack Richter says any product that makes a license plate unreadable is illegal. But CHP spokesman Tom Marshall says there has been no definitive ruling. "It's a sticky issue" that will have to be litigated or legislated, he says.
Legal or not, the product is sure to become a hot issue.
"I shouldn't be surprised that someone has come up with a product that actually helps people evade red-light cameras, ostensibly encouraging them to run red lights," says Candysse Miller, executive director of the Insurance Information Network of California.
"Why would anyone with a conscience encourage people to run red lights?" she asks. "What's next? A product to block security cameras at the corner 7-Eleven?"
The unnerving beauty of this product is that, according to its makers, there is no way you can spot a license plate that has been sprayed with the solution. Unlike covers that completely conceal the plate number and are illegal, the spray is invisible to the naked eye. Only the red-light camera would find the plate unreadable, Scott says.
The executive denies that his company's product encourages reckless driving. "We do not condone speeding or running red lights," he says. He argues that the spray is legal and that most drivers caught by the cameras did not intend to run the light. Domestic and international sales of Photoblocker have reached more than 250,000, he says.
It certainly doesn't take a rocket scientist to know how dangerous it is to blast through red lights with impunity. Police and others who see the carnage firsthand understand how serious a threat red-light runners are to others.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 1,000 people a year are killed and 50,000 injured in accidents involving running red lights. From 1999 to 2003, there were 4,846 fatal red-light-running crashes, with 5,340 deaths.
"Red-light running is unpardonable. It's right behind drunk driving, speed and lack of seat belt use in lives lost needlessly," says Harry Teter, executive director of the American Trauma Society. "People are in such a hurry, they are willing to take dangerous and unnecessary risks."
Do Photoblocker and similar products work? It depends on the type of traffic enforcement camera and how it's positioned, according to LAPD Sgt. Steven Foster, who heads the department's automated camera enforcement program.
So far, Foster says, the LAPD has not seen a rash of intersection photos with blocked-out license plates. "We see some occasional blurring," he says.
Motorists who oppose red-light-camera enforcement view it as intrusive. They often point to cases where drivers have been wrongly ticketed because of equipment malfunctions or human errors. Critics of red-light cameras contend cities install the cameras primarily to generate revenues.
"It's all about the revenues, not safety," Scott says. "Law-abiding citizens are being ticketed unjustly."
But the LAPD's Richter says he's appalled that a product would allow people to run red lights without being punished. People who are spending money on a spray to hide their license plate numbers "are going through a lot of effort to break the law. Why don't they save themselves the money and drive safely?"
Meanwhile, Scott says sales of Photoblocker skyrocketed during the holiday season.
"It's the perfect gift. It's permanent. It will last a lifetime," he says.
Of course if you're in the habit of running red lights, your life expectancy may not be all that long.
Jeanne Wright can be reached at jeanrite@aol.com
Fuzzing up the policing picture
A license-plate spray thwarts cameras set up to catch drivers running red lights.
But what of safety -- and the law?
By Jeanne Wright, Special to The Times - Jan 5 2005
A product that hides license plates from traffic-enforcement cameras at intersections may appeal to those frustrated by malfunctioning cameras but poses a major safety threat from those who hope to use it to slip through red lights.
For $30 a can, Photoblocker sprays on a high-gloss permanent reflective finish on a license plate.
"The glossy surface acts as a mirror to reflect a photo-radar flash back to the camera, overexposing the image," says Joe Scott, marketing director at PhantomPlate Inc., maker of the spray. As a result, the plate is unreadable and the driver avoids an expensive citation, usually in the hundreds of dollars.
Whether it's legal or not in California is unclear. LAPD spokesman Jack Richter says any product that makes a license plate unreadable is illegal. But CHP spokesman Tom Marshall says there has been no definitive ruling. "It's a sticky issue" that will have to be litigated or legislated, he says.
Legal or not, the product is sure to become a hot issue.
"I shouldn't be surprised that someone has come up with a product that actually helps people evade red-light cameras, ostensibly encouraging them to run red lights," says Candysse Miller, executive director of the Insurance Information Network of California.
"Why would anyone with a conscience encourage people to run red lights?" she asks. "What's next? A product to block security cameras at the corner 7-Eleven?"
The unnerving beauty of this product is that, according to its makers, there is no way you can spot a license plate that has been sprayed with the solution. Unlike covers that completely conceal the plate number and are illegal, the spray is invisible to the naked eye. Only the red-light camera would find the plate unreadable, Scott says.
The executive denies that his company's product encourages reckless driving. "We do not condone speeding or running red lights," he says. He argues that the spray is legal and that most drivers caught by the cameras did not intend to run the light. Domestic and international sales of Photoblocker have reached more than 250,000, he says.
It certainly doesn't take a rocket scientist to know how dangerous it is to blast through red lights with impunity. Police and others who see the carnage firsthand understand how serious a threat red-light runners are to others.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 1,000 people a year are killed and 50,000 injured in accidents involving running red lights. From 1999 to 2003, there were 4,846 fatal red-light-running crashes, with 5,340 deaths.
"Red-light running is unpardonable. It's right behind drunk driving, speed and lack of seat belt use in lives lost needlessly," says Harry Teter, executive director of the American Trauma Society. "People are in such a hurry, they are willing to take dangerous and unnecessary risks."
Do Photoblocker and similar products work? It depends on the type of traffic enforcement camera and how it's positioned, according to LAPD Sgt. Steven Foster, who heads the department's automated camera enforcement program.
So far, Foster says, the LAPD has not seen a rash of intersection photos with blocked-out license plates. "We see some occasional blurring," he says.
Motorists who oppose red-light-camera enforcement view it as intrusive. They often point to cases where drivers have been wrongly ticketed because of equipment malfunctions or human errors. Critics of red-light cameras contend cities install the cameras primarily to generate revenues.
"It's all about the revenues, not safety," Scott says. "Law-abiding citizens are being ticketed unjustly."
But the LAPD's Richter says he's appalled that a product would allow people to run red lights without being punished. People who are spending money on a spray to hide their license plate numbers "are going through a lot of effort to break the law. Why don't they save themselves the money and drive safely?"
Meanwhile, Scott says sales of Photoblocker skyrocketed during the holiday season.
"It's the perfect gift. It's permanent. It will last a lifetime," he says.
Of course if you're in the habit of running red lights, your life expectancy may not be all that long.
Jeanne Wright can be reached at jeanrite@aol.com
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