How easily can the red light cameras get my license plate?

[Goodtymz8]

Jurisdiction

California

I fear I may have ran a red light in San Francisco. With how high the lights are, how likely is it do you think it can take my license plate picture since the front was bent? Front and back license plate for clarification.

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

Assuming it is a relatively modern system SF is using something close to 100%. I mean your camera didn't have a problem photographing it.

 

[zddoodah]

While your situation is a legal one, your question does not raise any legal issue, and no one here has any hope of speaking intelligently about the likelihood of some random camera having nailed you. You'll find out within the next few weeks.

 

[Red Kayak]

I fear I may have ran a red light in San Francisco. With how high the lights are, how likely is it do you think it can take my license plate picture since the front was bent? Front and back license plate for clarification.

Let me put it this way: if the plates are so bent that they cannot be read from those angles, then you could be pulled over for not having the license plate # properly displayed.

WHY ARE BOTH YOUR PLATES BENT?

 

[army judge]

WHY ARE BOTH YOUR PLATES BENT?

I have heard that bending, mutilating, and defacing the license plates is a technique ADOPTED by people who THINK the cameras can be tricked.

It was at one time the CHEAPEST method in Texas to ELUDE detection by cameras.

The pictures supplied by OP demonstrate how ineffective a bent license plate is at fooling the newer cameras!!!

However, Texas outlawed the cameras statewide some years ago.

The Texas devotees of these unscrupulous methods who drive their vehicles out of Texas today PURCHASE plexiglass plate covers THINKING it offers a more subtle solution.

The jungle drums, however, say otherwise.

I suggest your life is EASIER, SIMPLER if you obey their laws!

 

[Goodtymz8]

While your situation is a legal one, your question does not raise any legal issue, and no one here has any hope of speaking intelligently about the likelihood of some random camera having nailed you. You'll find out within the next few weeks.

But since my phone camera took it, you think an sf red light camera will get be able to capture my full license plate?

 

[Goodtymz8]

Let me put it this way: if the plates are so bent that they cannot be read from those angles, then you could be pulled over for not having the license plate # properly displayed.

WHY ARE BOTH YOUR PLATES BENT?

Not sure. I don't have a license frame and maybe the pressure from speed when driving? Idk

 

[Zigner]

I've been driving for over 3 decades and I've NEVER had a license plate (in a frame or not) do that. The one time I have had a license plate bent at all was when it was run in to...and the damage to the car was more than the damage to the plate. I'm not saying that YOU did this (although I'd bet that you did), but somebody did this.

In any case - yeah, the red light cameras could see that. Now, just wait to see what happens. There's nothing else that can be said in this thread at this time.

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

Not sure. I don't have a license frame and maybe the pressure from speed when driving? Idk

LOL
Not in that car.

 

[zddoodah]

But since my phone camera took it, you think an sf red light camera will get be able to capture my full license plate?

I have no opinions about your camera, but I think it would be silly not to assume that the cameras work for their intended purpose.

 

[adjusterjack]

I deleted your other thread as a duplicate. Please don't open any more threads about this topic.

Photocop either got pictures of your plates or didn't get pictures of your plates. You'll just have to wait and see.

BTW, your bent plates are a violation. It's likely inevitable that you will be pulled over for them.

 

[cbg]

The odds are somewhere between 0 and 100%. That's as close as anyone can come.

 

[adjusterjack]

The odds are somewhere between 0 and 100%. That's as close as anyone can come.

"Never tell me the odds."
Han Solo