Re: Bird sets off Speed Camera

Larry Bud wrote:
Just now on MythBusters, they had a speed camera set up and had a bird
trainer come in (with a falcon) and they set off the speed camera with
false settings... or at least, the camera was picking up the bird.

They ran the test twice to confirm.



I saw that. I wasn't even paying attention to the other "myth" they had on there, but the photo-radar one was only mildly interesting.

I'm not surprised none of those license-plate coatings worked.

I had never heard the myth about the bird, but so what? A radar camera was sensitive enough to pick up a falcon. Another yawner.

As for the myth about driving so fast the camera couldn't catch you, the idea was laughable. It's too bad they couldn't actually test how fast you'd have to go to be gone before the camera's shutter could close and capture your plate, but it would have to be extremely fast - not quite the speed of light, but way more than the mach speed that one of the myth-idiots mentiobned.

And of course, even if your car could go so fast that the camera couldn't catch it, would you survive the inevitable accident? (No, I'm not saying speed kills, but lack of control does and you'd have to be going so fast that you wouldn't be in control).


Their solution of the flipping license plate wasn't original, but it was inspiring at how easy it would be to implement one.

My solution would have just been to throw mud on the license plate - not that I would really do that as you're just begging to be pulled over for doing so, but I wouldn't actually do the flipping license plate either.

But I did purposely leave my license plate obscured by snow a few weeks ago - I was curious as to whether it would come off during the 20 mile commute. It didn't.
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