Modern problems require modern solutions:
OK. My car came with pink frames too. I think it had to do with breast cancer awareness month. I just took them off and put the plate right on the car. No frame. I’ve always just wet my thumb, wiped the dirt off the old sticker and put on a new one. To each his own, happy trails.
Wow, that should be loss of plates. No more driving for him.
I walked past the line of fleet cars in our company garage. They all have license plate covers. None of the employee cars do.
From any angle wider than about 30 degrees off dead-on you can’t see the whole number on the cars with covers. You can see them on the others from a much more acute angle.
Probably would not obscure the plate from a toll booth or red light camera.
They don’t work, the cameras are designed to defeat them. As long as the plate number is visible to the human eye, the cameras can read them as well.
The problem occurs when there is a tiny, glare from the sun or an angle.
It seems this is one of those cases where you may be stopped IF police behind you on the road observe that they can’t read the plate from a reasonable distance due to the cover.
All states forbid anything that impedes easy observation of the reg number. This being regulated at the state level, each will have their own definition of what is an impediment and how much impediment is too much, I suppose some may include provisions for angle of visibility and for visibility under illumination/glare.
Note that from time to time one hears about someone being sent a ticket (sometimes from another state) claiming that they ran a red light or some such for a car that is clearly not theirs. The automated license plate scanner misread the tag.
And all too often there is no way to appeal this without going to court to point out the obvious problem (different brand of car, etc.). And that is costly even if it’s the local court, never mind one halfway across the country.
So one way of reducing this problem is to make your plate less readable to such devices.
IOW: Saying categorically that there is no legitimate reason for doing this is an overstatement.
Actually, that happened to my parents; they received a bill for tolls in Massachusetts on a date when none of us were in the state. We appealed, but were denied, until my brother looked more closely at the photos or the video of the plate and saw that it was from a different state.
Actually it is a great was to increase incorrect readings.
Not really, no. Cameras are pretty sophisticated and these things simply don’t work.
But for whom?
Reducing the ease of a camera recording your plate hardly increases the chances that your plate will be misidentified as … yours. (It might affect others, however.)
i know certain jokers have a type of light over or around the plate that comes on when you turn off the car that makes it impossible to take a pic with a phone … cause we tried several times… if you took a pic it just was all white
Not from the cameras, but the human eye.