Monday, March 20, 2006

Product claims to fool 'Red-Light' cameras

Photoblocker, which Monte Bowman plans to start selling in Council Bluffs, Nebraska, is a product that's supposed to make a car's license plate invisible to red-light cameras.

That city has seven cameras mounted at five intersections. If a car runs a red light, a flash goes off and the camera takes a picture of the license plate. Then, the vehicle's owner gets a $65 ticket in the mail, regardless of who's driving.

That's where Photoblocker comes in, and Bowman's claim is that drivers using it will no longer get caught.

A bottle of Photoblocker is $38 on the Internet. The makers, Phantom Plate Inc., say that if a driver sprays the "invisible formula" on his or her license plate, Photoblocker will "reflect the traffic enforcement camera's flash ... rendering the picture unreadable."

There is some speculation on if this product actually works, click here to read the full story.