does anyone watch myth busters?

[romeo26]

if so did any of you catch the ep with trying to trick the speed cameras? to my surprise i wouldnt of expected the government to use nikon! when my sister go cought by one of those (b4 i was into photography), i told her that was a good picture! it was clear and in focus!

[deadpass]

I saw that one too, and altho they botched the findings (hence the revisit so quickly) it was interesting to see the stuff they tested.

[justinmob]

Yea, I have seen that one. You could guess the outcome before the end. I wouldn't think the police assisting the myth busters would admit on TV that there was a possible way to beat the speed camera just as they wouldn't show a method to cover up a DUI by masking the breath, which was another episode.

[StewartR]

I don't think we have this show in the UK. So how do you trick the speed cameras?

There is or was a myth in the UK that they could only clock you up to a certain speed, so if you went through faster than that they couldn't register your speed. But recently somebody was stopped for doing 172mph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/24/nspeed124.xml) so I dread to think what the cameras' limit is!

(EDIT: In 2002 the presenters of the BBC TV programme Top Gear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%28current_format%29) demonstrated that a UK-spec "Gatso" camera could not register a car travelling at 170mph. Apparently our cameras must have improved since then!)

[Big WIll]

Mythbusters takes a few months to come over to the UK. Have to wait to see that episode.

[BillsBayou]

Here are the products I've seen on the Internet. Please tell me how they did.

Reflective spray paint. When the camera flashes, the paint reflects back too much light and overpowers the exposure.

Optical Slave Trigger. When the camera flashes, the optical slaves trigger infrared LEDs which surrond the license plate. Invisible to the naked eye, the CMOS sensor in the camera is overpowered by the incoming light.

Drive With Your Truck Bed Door Down. Many do this to improve gas mileage (a myth which was busted on Mythbusters). The added bonus is the high angle of the camera cannot see below the lowered door.

[gjl711]

Mythbusters is one of my favorites and a very fun show to watch, but some of their science is a bit off. For example, in the microwave episode they assumed that putting together two magnetrons from a microwave doubles output. Clearly they do not understand the properties of wave theory and interference.

[deadpass]

Here are the products I've seen on the Internet. Please tell me how they did.

Reflective spray paint. When the camera flashes, the paint reflects back too much light and overpowers the exposure.

Optical Slave Trigger. When the camera flashes, the optical slaves trigger infrared LEDs which surrond the license plate. Invisible to the naked eye, the CMOS sensor in the camera is overpowered by the incoming light.

Drive With Your Truck Bed Door Down. Many do this to improve gas mileage (a myth which was busted on Mythbusters). The added bonus is the high angle of the camera cannot see below the lowered door.

they didn't test any of those because they probably work. As mentioned above the mythbusters aren't going to show anything on the show that can get you out of trouble with the police.

[psyber_0ptix]

keep in mind ALL the photos they took were during the day. Most photos i have at night with a license plate using a flash are all pretty bright/glaring. I wonder if they use a filter/polarizer for this

agreed, they arent going to show something that is going to give people the impression its ok and easy to beat the law.

[ibdb]

They did test the spraypaint stuff -- and it failed along with everything else they tried. I don't know that night would make any difference -- I can blow out reflective surfaces with a flash in the daytime as easily as I can at night.

[othomas]

I don't think we have this show in the UK.

Mythbusters takes a few months to come over to the UK. Have to wait to see that episode.

Mythbusters is on every night around 6pm on Discovery Channel, via Sky.

They did an episode trying to outwit the radar speed guns a few months back. They even tried the Top Gear method of using a Lamborghini Murciélago to fool them, but failed.

[StewartR]

Mythbusters is on every night around 6pm on Discovery Channel, via Sky.

They did an episode trying to outwit the radar speed guns a few months back. They even tried the Top Gear method of using a Lamborghini Murciélago to fool them, but failed.Thanks Owin. I don't have Sky, sadly.

Interesting to see that they failed in the Lambo, even though The Stig succeded (in a TVR Tuscan) in 2002. Were they testing a US- or UK-spec camera? If the latter, and assuming they managed more than 170mph in their trial, then that - along with the recent 172mph conviction - confirms my suspicion that the cameras must have been upgraded in the last few years.

[othomas]

Thanks Owin. I don't have Sky, sadly.

Interesting to see that they failed in the Lambo, even though The Stig succeded (in a TVR Tuscan) in 2002. Were they testing a US- or UK-spec camera? If the latter, and assuming they managed more than 170mph in their trial, then that - along with the recent 172mph conviction - confirms my suspicion that the cameras must have been upgraded in the last few years.

Must've been a US spec camera, as the series is based in Califonia.

They also tried to track a Perigrin Falcon on the show too, was an impressive speed it recorded.