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red light cameras: products to avoid them??
Hi All,
Anyone have experience with anti red light camera products?? Where can I buy some??? Thanks! -Mike |
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The most effective anti-red light camera product I'm aware of is very
low cost, easy to apply and 100% effective: .. .. .. .. .. Just stop at the red light. |
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Mike wrote:
> Hi All, > Anyone have experience with anti red light camera products?? Where can > I buy some??? > > Thanks! > -Mike Have you tried the Malestrom G580 SignalMaster? You could also try.. 1. Anti red light camera lubricant 2. Anti red light camera air filters 3. Anti red light coolant 4. Anti red light spark plugs |
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In article . com>,
Mike > wrote: >Hi All, >Anyone have experience with anti red light camera products?? Where can >I buy some??? > >Thanks! >-Mike > All that is needed to avoid getting dinged by red light cameras is to do something about the loose nut behind the wheel. |
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Har har, you guys are real funny. Maybe when you guys get a $75 ticket
for quote/unquote 'running' a red light by .2 seconds in the rain, I'll help you figure out how to prevent it. Or maybe you have tons of money to burn, and don't have to worry about incidents such as this. Whatever, thanks for your help. |
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Theres a spray which makes your license plate super reflective whereas the
camera will blind itself from its own flash thus making your plate appear washed out or overexposed. I would think you could get the same reult from hi-gloss clear finish but thats your decision. Another product is a lens which covers your plate so it is visible straight on but at angles parts of the numbers blacked out. I got a $50 ticket for having this on my car fro obscuring my plate!. In my city they have the yellow times set .1 second below federal guidelines and a lot of us got off. The guidelines are 3.0-6.0 seconds of yellow time. You wont get off the ticket even if you move out of the way of an ambulance. Seen it. You also should get used to the idea of making yellow your color of choice for stopping in addition to red. Sure you'll get ass-ended one of these times, but you'll not be at fault for stopping. There are other products like a system that flashes back. The red light camera guys have made flashless cameras to defeat all that. You could program your GPS to remind you your approaching an intersection with one of those cameras or learn to get good with a paintball gun. good luck. I feel your pain! "Mike" > wrote in message ups.com... > Har har, you guys are real funny. Maybe when you guys get a $75 ticket > for quote/unquote 'running' a red light by .2 seconds in the rain, I'll > help you figure out how to prevent it. Or maybe you have tons of money > to burn, and don't have to worry about incidents such as this. > > Whatever, thanks for your help. > |
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"Mike" > wrote in message ups.com... > Har har, you guys are real funny. Maybe when you guys get a $75 ticket > for quote/unquote 'running' a red light by .2 seconds in the rain, I'll > help you figure out how to prevent it. Or maybe you have tons of money > to burn, and don't have to worry about incidents such as this. > > Whatever, thanks for your help. > Just stop, you wont find anything fool proof. |
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John S. wrote:
> The most effective anti-red light camera product I'm aware of is very > low cost, easy to apply and 100% effective: > . > . > . > . > . > Just stop at the red light. > I sometimes wonder- this really is a democracy, at a local level. If we did a survey on whether to repeal all traffic laws, what would the result be? If we don't want to have traffic laws, why don't we just tell our reps to get rid of them all? By far the majority of drivers exceed the speed limits. Why to we bother to have them? Or is the feeling that everyone but me should obey the rules, so we still need them. Of course, everyone else is also a me. |
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Mike wrote:
> Har har, you guys are real funny. Maybe when you guys get a $75 ticket > for quote/unquote 'running' a red light by .2 seconds in the rain, I'll > help you figure out how to prevent it. Or maybe you have tons of money > to burn, and don't have to worry about incidents such as this. > > Whatever, thanks for your help. > Well, I've been driving for 49 years without a red light ticket. So I'd say the odds of anyone getting one because of an unintentional slip up are low. If the odds are one or two per lifetime, then 75 or 150 bucks, compared to other costs of a lifetime of driving are minor, and I can sure live with it. If you get LOTS of these tickets, I'd guess that there is a message there. |
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Don Stauffer wrote:
> > John S. wrote: > > The most effective anti-red light camera product I'm aware of is very > > low cost, easy to apply and 100% effective: > > . > > . > > . > > . > > . > > Just stop at the red light. > > > > I sometimes wonder- this really is a democracy, at a local level. If we > did a survey on whether to repeal all traffic laws, what would the > result be? If we don't want to have traffic laws, why don't we just > tell our reps to get rid of them all? By far the majority of drivers > exceed the speed limits. Why to we bother to have them? > > Or is the feeling that everyone but me should obey the rules, so we > still need them. Of course, everyone else is also a me. The biggest flaw I can see here is that people assume, incorrectly I might add, that the yellow timing is set to a safe number when red light cameras are install. The fact is that there is a minimum and maximum timing allowed by most state laws and ordinance/codes. Most traffic engineers set the yellow time to around the middle of that range, sometimes a slight bit to the longer side of the middle. Why? It promotes safe driving. If the time is set to the bare minimum then people will be more likely to slam on their brakes on yellow and cause an accident. It also promotes yellow light running because people will feel, correctly, that there is likely to be much less time to stop before the light turns red and they're more likely to decide to try and beat the light instead. Now, most red light camera programs in this country are actually private affairs where the equipment maker offers to come set up the hundreds of thousands of dollars of cameras and recording equipment for free, for a cut of the ticket profits. To maximise their profits, the equipment maker has the city sign a legally binding contract that orders the city traffic engineers to turn the yellow light timing down to the minimum allowed by law/code/ordinance. This ensures that the most number of people will get caught in the intersection when the light turns red, by minimizing the time that drivers have to react and stop. Now, there's a clear conflict of interest here between safety and corporate profits. To me, it should seem that safety needs to always win out. Because cities that promote dangerous driving and increased accidents are not cities that I want to drive in, I specifically avoid driving in or through any cities that enact red light camera systems, and I send letters to retailers and the city explaining why I choose to no longer shop in or visit their city. JazzMan -- ************************************************** ******** Please reply to jsavage"at"airmail.net. Curse those darned bulk e-mailers! ************************************************** ******** "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry ************************************************** ******** |
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