Lights, Camera, No Ticket

New countermeasure for red light cameras and speed cameras.

Harrisburg, PA (PRWEB) August 22, 2006 -- Your city's traffic cameras have a new public enemy. It's supposed to put a high-gloss finish on your license plate, overexposing it when the flash goes off. But if they come back, would you try to beat the system? And do products designed to do that really work? Beating traffic cameras has become big business and one of the hottest countermeasures is a spray called "PhotoBlocker."

If police can't read your plate, they can't send you a ticket. Just check out the testimonials the company puts out on their website."

How does it work?

Following the instructions on the can, one tv station washed an old license plate up and sprayed it down with four coats of Photoblocker. For comparison purposes they also had an untreated plate handy. When they attached the untreated plate to a vehicle and used a digital camera with a flash to photograph it, the plate was still legible.

When they did the same thing with a plate treated with Photoblocker, the plate showed up glowing white in the digital image and was unreadable for our camera. Before you buy this product, which costs around $30.00 per can, there's one more thing you should know.

The surest way to beat the speed trap, it seems, is to just slow down. The other question is -- is it legal? Certain license plate frames are illegal in some states, because they obscure the numbers on your plate, but because photoblocker is clear nobody would even know you're using it. There's no law saying your plate has to be "photogenic." To learn more, visit http://www.phantomplate.com/photoblocker.html.

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