The plate covers, yeah they're illegal, but everyone seems to have them. Any recommendations on a decent brand to buy? I dont run red lights habitually, but sometimes I'd like to have the option.

9/17/2005 12:54:46 AM

or you know

wait the 30-120 seconds for the light to change

fucking toolbag

9/17/2005 12:55:31 AM

Quote :

"I dont run red lights habitually, but sometimes I'd like to have the option."

9/17/2005 12:57:00 AM

didn't they discontinue the SafeLight program anyway?

9/17/2005 12:59:03 AM

Hope so

9/17/2005 1:00:54 AM

i got a ticket last month...

[Edited on September 17, 2005 at 1:01 AM. Reason : from safelight.]

9/17/2005 1:01:02 AM

truck + downed tailgate

9/17/2005 1:39:01 AM

the program is still active.

Aficionado why all the sand in your vagina?

9/17/2005 3:29:20 AM

^he doesn't have sand in his vagina, he has common sense.

there is no point in running a red light. not only do you risk your life, but you risk someone else's. think about how many useless adults who ride around with their kids in the back seat with no child seat whatsoever. fucking kids jumping around, carrying on. would it be worth it to take a child's life just to run that red light only to get stopped at another 1/4 mile down the road?

try this sometime. try driving exactly the speedlimit and obeying all traffic laws. it won't be long before you see some jackass passing everybody, riding someone's ass, and running the redlight. watch how far the jackass gets. he might beat you by a stoplight, but i guarantee you'll catch up to him within a mile or two.

[Edited on September 18, 2005 at 11:22 AM. Reason : edited]

9/17/2005 10:30:48 AM

^and yadda yadda yadda....

9/17/2005 7:32:06 PM

Quote :

"there is no point in running a red light. not only do you risk your life, but you risk someone else's."

9/17/2005 8:22:14 PM

You know, there are not that many intersections that have the redlight cameras. And the ticket doesnt count as a moving violation. I would think the chances of you getting a ticket for a license plate protector much higher than you running a light at one of the few intersections, which are clearly marked, that has cameras.

I cant imagine why you need the option to run a redlight at one of the few intersections with these things.

9/17/2005 10:25:36 PM

underPSI hates black people because he is angry about his small penis

9/17/2005 10:27:12 PM

um.... when riding out late at night on my bike and there is a redlight that will never turn bc my bike doesnt weigh enough or whatever to hit the light sensor.. i run the light after making sure no one is coming. krs3g isnt talkin about running redlights all the time, just for times like this im guessing. besides some of those damn lights have yellows that are only 1 sec long or so so they try to catch u .. ie cary trying to increase cary revenue.

9/17/2005 10:28:57 PM

there are no lights that trick you into running a red...the number of collisions/deaths caused by that would definitely outweigh any amount of $40 fines

9/17/2005 10:38:00 PM

well maybe they dont try to trick you, but shit the one at the mall at cary town had the shortest yellow in town for a while and that was a camera light. my dad who's been driving 35years, drives like a saint, got caught by that shit.

9/17/2005 10:41:51 PM

I thought people had to be smarter than krs3g to get into college in the first place?

9/17/2005 11:36:58 PM

In the early days of red light cameras the companies operating them did indeed reduce the amount of "yellow" time to increase revenues.

9/18/2005 12:12:57 AM

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"my bike doesnt weigh enough or whatever to hit the light sensor"

there are inductors in the road

my protege doesnt have enough ferrous material to trip some of them

9/18/2005 1:18:29 AM

Quote :

"krs3g isnt talkin about running redlights all the time, just for times like this im guessing. besides some of those damn lights have yellows that are only 1 sec long or so so they try to catch u .. ie cary trying to increase cary revenue."

indeed.

with all the destructive habbits most of you bastards have you criticize me for smurfing a few red lights shortly after the yelow.

i made a post intended as a product inquiry you kids can take your lectures and morality and go fuck yourselves as far as im concerned.

9/18/2005 2:12:26 AM

Quote :

"In the early days of red light cameras the companies operating them did indeed reduce the amount of "yellow" time to increase revenues."

proof?

9/18/2005 2:54:42 AM

do you drive? if you do, you'd have to be blind to not notice how short the yellows are in the immediate vicinity of "Camera Enforced Blabbity Blah" signs

if you can bring your car to a stop before the line by locking the brakes, popping the hood, and dragging your foot out the door, they pretty much expect you to do so at the camera enforced lights

[Edited on September 18, 2005 at 3:59 AM. Reason : mad ghey]

9/18/2005 3:58:05 AM

bullshit

9/18/2005 8:21:37 AM

Quote :

"proof?"

it was heavily reported in the news when they were coming out. car and driver (or one of the ones i had a subscription to then) even had somthing about it

i was under the impression that they caught too much flack about it and changed things back though


either way theres no point in running a red light. and if you do have a bike that cant trip the cycle just put your hand over the plate

[Edited on September 18, 2005 at 8:23 AM. Reason : yeah google has a lot of info about it]

9/18/2005 8:22:16 AM

funny thing is, ALL the lights with safelight installed in NC at least are on TIMERS, not tripped by the mag strips.

So there is still NO FUCKING ETHICAL USE for the plate covers. Oh and if a SHP or RPD officer sees those on your ride, be prepped for a MUCH larger fine than the 40 bones for running a red.

9/18/2005 8:53:42 AM

thats why we use the spray

9/18/2005 9:15:14 AM

oh babey

9/18/2005 9:15:50 AM

Quote :

" weigh enough or whatever to hit the light sensor"

I do believe those things are magnetic... you probably just need to move around till your rims or engine of somthing are on the strip... they work pretty much like a CFCI in you kitchen or bathroom.

9/18/2005 9:42:26 AM

The shields are useless against motion cameras. They will only work on still shot cameras.

Think about it and you'll understand why.

9/18/2005 10:16:52 AM

You know whats useless?

krs3g

[Edited on September 18, 2005 at 11:26 AM. Reason : .]

9/18/2005 11:26:30 AM

i like to trip those lights when i ride my bike through... its funny
but thats just for fun i'm never in a big enough hurry to run a red light in my car and you shouldn't be either

9/18/2005 11:57:43 AM

It is studies like this that make me happy:

Quote :

"The Virginia Transportation Research Council studied all of the state red light camera programs and found an overall increase in injury accidents."

Quote :

"Despite a distinct sympathy in favor of camera enforcement, the researchers found a "definite" increase in rear-end accidents and only a "possible" decrease in angle accidents. "

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/01/117.asp

9/18/2005 12:05:46 PM

Quote :

"well maybe they dont try to trick you, but shit the one at the mall at cary town had the shortest yellow in town for a while and that was a camera light. my dad who's been driving 35years, drives like a saint, got caught by that shit."

I got flashed by that one at two in the morning. There was exactly ONE car in front of me at the light, and the light turned yellow and then red while I was still driving through the intersection. I never got an actual ticket from it, which is good because I would have cut somebody.

9/18/2005 12:12:34 PM

you wont get a ticket unless you enter the intersection when its red

9/18/2005 3:59:11 PM

apparently this Maugan kid didn't catch the "go fuck yourself" line.

9/18/2005 6:24:05 PM

apparently this krs3g "kid" did get the "you're a stupid douchebag for running red lights and should have his license revoked" line.

9/18/2005 6:33:12 PM

Quote :

"The shields are useless against motion cameras. They will only work on still shot cameras. Think about it and you'll understand why. "

From some article I read about on the way those sprays work, they depend on the flash of the camera to screw them up. AFAIK, the ones around here don't work in the same manner to be screwed up by those retroreflective sprays. But, I don't know.

The best thing is to make a fake license plate, that you can make fold down over your real license plate, that is activate by a switch. The, when you want to do something illegal, flip the switch, do it, then un-flip the switch.

9/18/2005 6:39:18 PM

Quote :

"The best thing is to make a fake license plate, that you can make fold down over your real license plate, that is activate by a switch. The, when you want to do something illegal, flip the switch, do it, then un-flip the switch."

Bond. James Bond.

9/18/2005 7:46:46 PM

the transperter had that shit

but look, the spray works. i know it.

9/18/2005 7:49:07 PM

Quote :

"the ones around here don't work in the same manner to be screwed up by those retroreflective sprays"

ive seen at least a couple that had flashes

9/18/2005 7:50:51 PM

http://www.greenlightstuff.com/trigger.html

best product ever for motorcycles, its a super high power ceramic magnet that wont fuck up your electronics, but will trip almost any light out there, i also make it a habit to cross the mag strips at an angle to generate a stronger field. since i put those on both my bikes, i have never gotten stuck at a light.

[Edited on September 19, 2005 at 5:04 PM. Reason : bad link]

9/19/2005 5:02:58 PM

The one @ Cary Town Center got me a few months ago $50 ..........sum bitches

9/19/2005 6:00:33 PM

Quote :

"you wont get a ticket unless you enter the intersection when its red"

I didn't realize that.

I just know that I have seen a lot of people get "the flash" when they were in the intersection just as it turned red. I have never knowingly ran a redlight and stop if I can on yellow, but just like with the link I posted, I am much less likely to "risk" going through the intersection on yellow ... and yes, that causes accedents.

9/19/2005 6:48:12 PM

where in raleigh are the 'safe lights'?

any around campus? any in cary?

9/19/2005 9:46:48 PM

That I know of:

Cary:
At least 2 on Walnut St. (Crossroads)
A few on Maynard (at least 3)

I am still thinking of where some other ones are. (The ones in Cary all have the flash/strobe boxes)

9/19/2005 10:44:36 PM

there is on Hillsborough St at the light before you get to East Village

9/19/2005 11:31:28 PM

any particular brand of spary?

9/19/2005 11:31:34 PM