Is Photoblocker spray really works?
 

What's up fellas,
friend of mine just got Red Light Camera Ticket it cost about $480 in ca.:troutslap
Now he order PhotoBlocker spray, is it really works? Anybody try it?
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Not sure, but I do know that not running red lights works. Suggest your friend tries stopping instead of blowing through lights.

Ill have to concur with JCL on that. Cheaper to not run the red than spend the $22 and have luck on your side.

i totally understand the notion of not running the red lights and concur...

however, the red light cameras are installed there not to protect the public from crazy speedsters but to increase the revenue for the locality/municipality/township.

There used to be cameras in Arlington, VA that have been removed as the company who installed them has been sued for calibrating the cameras and the lights that it was literally impossible to slow down when the light changed from green to yellow and then to red - the yellow to red transition was too fast, and the cars that were moving for the green, were caught in the yellow and by the time the flash went off, the red was already in the picture.

these paints work in some cases and in the most cases they do not. properly designed and installed camera will cut through the reflective layer of the paint.

there was a plastic cover, sold from a seller somewhere in canada.

that cover is totally illegal in the US and can be used only for off-road use only, as it will effectively block the views from the top, sides and the bottom aimed cameras - i have personally tested that plastic cover in our lab

Saw a TV news report on this a few years back and it seemed to work on the plates that had it sprayed on.

Paying attention to your driving works even better.....and costs much less! I mean like seriously, how hard is it really?

Thanks guys, seems it works only when camera flash and im not sure about daytime. My friend made right turn without stopping on the red but anyway its red light violation.

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Don't you guys watch Mythbusters? They sorted all of this stuff out years ago - nothing works......

Tickets suck and they are revenue raisers for sure (here in Melbourne Australia they have speed cameras mounted to the front of civilian cars and you have a 3km/h (2mph) buffer. They catch you doing 84km/h in an 80 zone and it's $150)

However don't speed and don't run red lights and you never have a problem.......

Many appear to lump red light cameras and speed cameras into the same category. Not so, IMO.

We can debate whether higher speeds correlate well with accidents or not, and many if not most of us have been guilty of running a few km/hr over the limit. So I can understand some of the objections to radar speed cameras.

But it isn't often that running red lights works out well. Especially for cross-traffic. If red light cameras are a form of taxation, then I say bring it on. Government has to raise money via taxes, and this particular one is entirely optional. Don't want to pay, just obey the law. Simple. Not only won't you have to pay the fine, but your insurance rates will tend to stay lower as well due to reduced claims.

Anecdotal, but we have/have had the red light infraction cams here in Naples/Collier County FL, for the past several years.

The idea was sound, as was the economics: the elected county board was sold on installing the cams to potentially reduce running red lights, and collect fines via licence plate id. They were installed at dozens of major intersections. Intersections here in greater Naples, FL are numerous and most have 2.75-4 min red lights = interminable waits for green lights, with most intersections only allowing a left turn on green arrow.

Some of those intersections were well marked as having cams in place and working, some not so much. The company that installed them 'for free', received a sizeable cut from each citation issued, whether or not the citation was actually ever paid by the owner of the car, (not necessarily the 'driver' at the time of being filmed.)

The running the red light portion was well embraced by even the anarchists...however, those citations were a small % of the citations: most of the citations were for 'rolling' through a right turn on red, that right on red is allowed at any intersection here, other than the few that are marked no right on red. Std stuff...

The main soft spot on most of those 'right on red' infractions was the design of the intersections themselves: to avoid a citation, one had to come to a full complete few second stop, behind the white crossing line, then noogie up toward the turn for a 'sightline' of oncoming traffic , pause, then make that right turn on red.

If one did that procedure, you had made a legal 'right on red' and did not get a ticket. If you did not do that exact and careful and thorough procedure, some admin cop later reviewing the tapes, would hit the button and the registered owner got the citation in the mail, often weeks/months afte the 'infraction'.

Obviously, many that were cited did not do that multi-step process, and when one did do the full stop, creep up, stop and look and then proceed, there were hundreds of rear end accidents by those behind that lead right hand turn car doing the 'proper' right on red process.

It was a ~2 year uproar over the right turn fiasco, many of the 'citations' were to seasonal out of state lic plated cars which were never paid, the company that ran the cams was earning considerable money, while the county was not, (county only got 'paid' their % when a car owner actually paid a fine), etc.

Most of those cams have come down; that is reasonable, yet not so good, as the red light runners know this. The average right turn on red driver continues to do what they always did = roll through the turn after some/partial/all of a full stop on red.

Obviously, pedestrians have the right of way in lighted intersection situs...my concern is the through the intersection red light runners, and the general overall lack of driving skills and observation skills, (approaching car speed, time, distance computing), that few drivers have, esp here in Geezerville FL, in winter season.
GL, mD