Re: red light camera question

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From: waughs
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 23:21

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Not around here.  Two shots of the rear of the car.  I suspect that's
pretty standard.

The guy whose daughter got busted while ditching must have meant that
her car was photographed while she was supposed to be in school.

Hamish
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On 8 Jun 2001 02:28:14 GMT, NightSerf <acs6j@Virginia.EDU> wrote:

>You may be right.  My thinking was that a night camera, in order
>to photograph the car along with the front plate and the
>driver's face, would have to flash at the front of the car.  If
>that's true, then flashes in the rear view mirror would be
>catching someone moving through the intersection from the
>opposite direction.  But if the camera is photographing the
>rear of the car, then a flash in the rear view mirror would be
>doing just as you said.
>
>A year or so ago, someone posted that his daughter had been
>nabbed while cutting classes, which is what made me believe
>that the cameras were positioned so as to photograph the driver
>as well as the license plate.  Not so?

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