There's PhotoBlocker which makes those cameras worthless.
KTVU (Channel 2 News in the Bay Area) had a report about people cheating toll on the bridges around here. It's the same concept. You spray your plates and then you drive right through so when the cameras take a shot at you, they don't see jack.
Yesterday I think I might've gotten caught by a camera.
There's a sign that says NO TURN ON RED (right turn), and it's a weird intersection that splits the road into 2, so it's not exactly a 90 degree right turn. Usually the green arrow is on, and in my 100 times or so of crossing this intersection and my 100 other times in riding other people's cars, I've NEVER seen it turn red. Yesterday, it turned red, and I finally figured out how. It's when a pedestrian hits the button. I was worried the pedestrian was gonan run across in front of my car, so I was busy watching her that I didnt notice the light turned red. I think I missed the light by maybe 0.1 sec or so because someone was in the lane next to me also turning (although he was slightly ahead). I know this is also a camera intersection, but usually you see a flash out of the corner of your eye. However, the cameras are focused on the people going straight I believe, not on the right split because this right split is almost never red.
Anyways, I'm not taking any more chances. I'm buying the photoblocker spray.
I've triggered the cameras 3 times in my life. Twice was at an intersection in front of my apartment that has faulty cameras. They go off randomly. Running yellows is sometimes dangerous as even if you're in the smack dab middle when it turns red, the camera goes off sometimes. But maybe that's because someone was tailing me and didn't make it through, but it's a busy intersection and sometimes it just turns yellow and red while ur in the middle cuz traffic is so slow. Sometimes it goes off when pedestrians start crossing. I've never gotten a ticket there.
The third trigger was when it was a rainy day and I saw the left turn light go green and I hit the gas only to realize I'm going straight and I was already in the middle of the intersection by the time I hit my brakes. The flash went off. It might have helped that I don't have front plates, and that I didn't keep driving because I backed right through.
So I'm praying I didn't trigger the light yesterday, but enough is enough. I never blatantly run a light. I'm getting that photoblocking crap.
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