Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now.

Carmakazi@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’ll pretty much only do anything against a camera using a flash in the dark and even then that’s probably only marginal. In normal daytime illumination everyone and every thing will still be able to see your plate just fine.

  I think I’d rather get a color e-ink display from China and mount it in a fake license plate frame, with a microcontroller behind it displaying a random assortment of plate styles and numbers as you drive along. If you see the 5-0, flip a the switch to lock it to your real plate number until they go away.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    youtu.be/HGzBL4k6qeY

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cops have car mounted plate readers. If you see them, its already too late.

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    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also, you won’t see the drone

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      • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And the ICE guy waiting to shoot you in the face

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  • imadethis@fedinsfw.app ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unless your e-ink display has some pretty magical properties, it’s going to be spotted by a cop at random sooner or later, whether that’s at a traffic light, on the highway behind you, or even if they just roll by at a parking lot.

    Plus, I can assure you that the technology to instantly alert if a car shows a registration for, let’s say a blue honda, but looks like a red ford, has been around for longer than flock has been in the news. It’s why that shit with texas temporary license plates was such a big deal (you’d see them everywhere throughout the continent). Unless you have a way to know what other cars similar to yours have for their license plates, you’re going to get nabbed. And most places make your switching thing a pretty big deal as far as punishments go.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Plus, I can assure you that the technology to instantly alert if a car shows a registration for, let’s say a blue honda, but looks like a red ford

      Ironically, I traded in my blue Honda for an orange Ford and drove it unregistered for almost an entire year and never got pulled over.

      Dealership said the would handle switching the plates and registration, and didn’t do it. I only found out when I went to renew my reg.

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I used to live in Louisiana and I drove there for three years with an expired out of state license plate and no insurance. Finally got pulled over, told the cops I just forgot about that stuff, and got off with a $125 ticket. If I’d had a bit more melanin I’d still be in Angola prison today.

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      • ReignOfTerror@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You didn’t find it weird that you never received any documents for the car in the mail for a YEAR?

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  • 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Allow me to introduce you to the magic world of pdlc, and especially pdlc in the same size as your license plates. Its not even that expensive and can be flipped from a switch as well.

    a.aliexpress.com/_Ew79cNM

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    • meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now we need a program that automaticaly turns it on when by a camera.

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      • 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Or just www.vortexradar.com/2016/03/nophoto-review/

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      • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Tie it to the map deflock runs?

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  • thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Couldn’t you make it automatic and do it. Don’t get have devices that detect all the wireless crap going on in a police car? For educational purposes only of course

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re gonna start making rfid license plates, aren’t they

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• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You would need a mix of IR absorbing material and IR reflective material like what they use in Zenni ID guard glasses.

  An easier way to go about it would just be to install a bright IR light pointed at your plate, it would create a glare that would make it impossible for the camera to read.

  I have an IR scope for one of my rifles and thought it would be a bright idea to install a IR flashlight to help boost the field of vision… The flashlight I got was so bright that it just tuned the whole image white.

  So there are things that would work, but it would probably get you in more trouble than anything. It’s illegal in every state to attempt to obscure your tags from being tracked in any way.

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is my right. It’d be pretty simple to install a small ring of IR LED around your plate and wire them into the car lights and a back up battery in the trunk. Basically keep it glowing 24/7. Probably like, 30 bucks in hardware from Ali to start from scratch.

    Kind of wonder what it’d be like to frame he whole car in it. Like a ghostly kia soul.

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Might be a way to get around the intentional blocking of your plate. If you installed a bright enough IR light bar on the roof of your car pointing down the front and back… You would probably just show up as a moving block of light, might not even be recognized as a car by the AI.

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• THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes. You also need a ring of high intensity white LEDs pointed at your plate.

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  • urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And the flocks are IR cameras, so better would be broadcasting a ton of IR light around your license plate. That being said, the camera also looks for type/size of rims and tires, window tint, visible damage, bumper stickers, dirt level, so while your license plate blocking may stop it from looking you up it won’t stop it from tracking where you’re going

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  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just cover my entire car with flexible screens and cameras. The image from one side of the car is displayed on the images of the other side of the car. Can’t track a car if you can’t even tell a car is there at all! I’m sure this will have absolutely no downsides whatsoever.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m willing to bet if it did do something useful, you would just make yourself a target for frequent stops by cops.

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• lol_idk@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you want to best camera that flash, set up a camera flash in slave mode pointing at your plate. It will overexpose it

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They did, but I always took it with the notion that if they did find something that worked it would never be allowed to air.

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