Submitted by Blecher_onthe_Hudson t3_zpwt2d in jerseycity
Blecher_onthe_Hudson OP t1_j0w1jdg wrote
Looks like this is the stuff. https://photoblocker.com/ They claim it's not even illegal! So where does this lead? Facial recognition cams instead of plate cams? Then laws against wearing masks in your car? I remember a story from pre-covid where guy drove the cops in AZ nuts by driving with a mask on.
pixel_of_moral_decay t1_j0wmte5 wrote
You should see the camera resistant hats some thieves use. IIRC they’re IR led lights, which basically create a halo and block the face. You can find this crap online.
Most cameras can’t come close to filtering out the light so it looks like some 1960’s religious film and the Holy Spirit just broke it to steal a package…. Or some StarTrek alien bad guy.
robin_tern t1_j0wtuqi wrote
I suspect it won't be long before they start embedding an rfid chip in license plates.
Robin.
Anonymous1985388 t1_j0wyja2 wrote
I would expect that some sort of alarm gets triggered when a car goes through and a license plate does not get scanned. Should be enough time for police to look at the photo of the car whose license plate didn’t get properly read, and the car can get pulled over by police when they come out the other side of the tunnel. Though I don’t know how the technology works.
Blecher_onthe_Hudson OP t1_j0x1871 wrote
That would make sense, but it doesn't happen. When they catch them it's more or less luck in spotting the obscured plate, and the reflective paint would never be seen by the naked eye of a cop.
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