Beat The Camera | Avoid Speed camera Detection - Spray Makes Licence Plate INVISIBLE

Friday July 4 2003

The number plate spray that claims it defeats cameras
From George Borden in New York

A number plate spray, which supposedly defeats speed cameras, is proving a hit with drivers.
The aerosol is said to reflect the flash from radar traffic cameras, turning registration plates into an unreadable white blur.

Its makers, say the PhotoBlocker is invisible to the naked eye and that a single application lasts for weeks. The spray is on sale through a website (www.BeatTheCamera.com) and is likely to attract interest from British drivers.

Joe Scott, The Company’s marketing director, said: “I know of no jurisdiction that bans the spray. Most states/countries have laws against obscuring or distorting license plates, but PhotoBlocker only obscures the license plate in a photo, making it legal and difficult to detect with the naked eye.

He said high demand for the £25 product was evidence of growing public anger at the use of the speed cameras to generate revenue rather than reduce accidents.

“Decent folks – law-abiding citizens – are getting penalized left and right for clearing intersections a little too late, or entering and then backing up,” he said.

Captain John Lamb, head of traffic police in Denver, Colorado, said the spray had worked in tests he had supervised.

“It proved effective producing a glare over the license plate,” he said.

FOX TV network, which filmed the tests, also reported that it was “surprisingly effective.”

Steve Kholer, of the Californian Highway Patrol, which levies fines of up to £150 on speeding motorists, said “the law would catch up with” any product that proved to be successful.

Beat The Camera’s website boasts: “Make your license plate invisible to cameras. If they can’t read it, they can’t catch you.”

Some 21 U.S. states use traffic cameras and the highly-expensive support work to keep them in action is achieved with help from manufacturers and operators.

They take a percentage of the revenues from fines.
g.gordon@dailymail.co.uk