• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    5 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.

    • imadethis@fedinsfw.app
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      4 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.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        29 minutes 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.

    • thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      5 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