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The bounce-back-the-flash concept does work sometimes, he says, but only on positive images traffic cameras produce. "If we reverse the image, go to a negative image, we can read every letter on a license plate," he says.
Fors says the firms that make and operate radar camera systems and analyze the photos for municipalities routinely check negatives where license plates look unreadable. "Going to the negative image is no big deal," he says.
PhotoBlocker's Scott concedes that adjusting the images can "sometimes" reveal the tag numbers, but "these companies will just throw out anything that's questionable. They don't want to have to dispute it in court and it's not cost-effective for them."
Anyway:
- the 25mph school zone speed limit is not the limit "anyway" when it's not school hours. That's why it matters.
- people should automatically assume they're in effect M-F 7-5pm and just go 25mph.
My friend in Queens who got one a couple of weeks ago on Union Turnpike told me his neighbor got 4 in a row...Mon thru Thursday...by a school on Utopia.
I love tgese cameras.
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