Some Good Tips On License Plate Covers You Should Know

That law makers are introducing new methods and technologies to maintain traffic on the roads is all to the good. Unfortunately, there is a fallout to this in that the general populace does feel a bit harassed. Are we turning into a police state? Some ask. What happens to generate this feeling is that quite a few motorists, while travelling in their cars and crossing traffic barriers or lights, have been photographed or tagged with radar and ticketed even though they have not violated any traffic laws. They have to pay a fine.

Traffic cameras are programmed to photograph the license plates of passing vehicles in the event a vehicle driver does not stop at a red light. Police cars may be equipped with radars that detect speeds of vehicles and, if they are found to be violating the maximum limit, such drivers are issued a ticket. Is there a workaround to this form of unjust harassment and unfair penalties? There is. The solution is to install Phantom Tag Protector license plate covers that protect privacy of drivers. There have been cases where law enforcement agencies may have willfully tampered with the settings to capture license plates of cars even when there is no offense and thus generate tickets that lead to increased revenues for them and losses for vehicle owners.

Commonly known as tag protectors, these are quite simple in their design and operation. One simply installs the license plate covers over the existing license plates. The covers are in the form of laser etched holographic polymer film that sticks to the plate. It diffracts light. Traffic cameras are usually located on one side of the road and have an oblique angle look at the passing vehicle’s license plate. Should it try to capture an image of the plate what happens is that light is reflected and refracted by the license plate covers into rainbow hues and it effectively prevents the camera from recording the license plate details. Captured from high above at an angle or from an angle to the left or right, the license plate will show the effects of the protective tag in that not all characters are perfectly legible. If characters are distorted then further process of scanning and issuing a ticket is simply not possible. The plate cover for license plates saves the day for motorists.

Is it legal? It is. There are no laws that prevent car owners from applying a protective polymer cover that does not hide the details when viewed from normal viewing angles. When viewed head on the plate is completely legible and the polymer film cover is virtually invisble.

Is it a license to violate traffic laws? It is not. It is developed and offered simply as an aid to motorists to prevent them from becoming accidental victims of misjudged traffic ticketing by robotic cameras. The makers do not promote it as a tool to help break traffic laws but as a protection for motorists against unjust bookings. The company manufacturing these covers always recommends that drivers follow traffic rules.