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by tricksforfree 1048 days ago
Traffic cameras are easily beaten by tinted license plates. I see them often in NYC.
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Let's leave traffic enforcement to the cameras, much safer for the police, who can then spend much more effort going after license plate violations with gusto (and I'm serious about this). Just train the cameras to recognize cars with unrecognizable license plates, then transmit the data to the police in real time.
Safer for police and safer for people too. Cameras don’t kill people.
Tinted licenses are much easier to ticket.

If the govt is actually interested this is an easy problem to solve.

They are illegal in most states. But police don’t seem to care.
Ya, right now its just an add on violation if they do pull you over, or they use it as a (very valid) excuse if they want to pull you over for something else.