Upsidedown Number Plate

Mercdriver

stator wrote: »

You'd be surprised at the crap software out there.
Remember the motorway average speed cameras that can be defeated by changing lanes?

It's obviously possible they could read the plates upside down, but whether the crappy software actually does it is quite another matter.

They aren't fooled by changing lanes any more

bod1467

stator wrote: »

Act of parliament

This paragraph requires the plate to be fixed—
(a) vertically or, where that is not reasonably practicable, in a position as close to the vertical as is reasonably practicable, and
(b) in such a position that in normal daylight the characters of the registration mark are easily distinguishable from every part of a relevant area having the diagonal length specified in paragraph (

Eh? Surely they mean horizontal? Or are they referring to the characters on a plate? (In which case an inverted plate would still be legal, as the characters would still be vertical but upside down).

NBLondon

bod1467 wrote: »

Eh? Surely they mean horizontal? Or are they referring to the characters on a plate? (In which case an inverted plate would still be legal, as the characters would still be vertical but upside down).

Surely they mean the body of the plate must be vertical - if it was horizontal you'd need a drone with ANPR to read it (hmmm that's probably been thought about already). As opposed to leaning back or forwards which could distort the image for an ANPR camera. (I seem to remember a discussion about this some years back about whether a low-nosed sports car had to have a hanging vertical plate or could you get away with a sticker one as seen on e.g. most E-types).


Yep - it could meet the letter of the law but would certainly attract suspicion from any decent traffic cop. I suspect the driver thinks he can fool speed or red-light cameras with it.

stator

bod1467 wrote: »

Eh? Surely they mean horizontal? Or are they referring to the characters on a plate? (In which case an inverted plate would still be legal, as the characters would still be vertical but upside down).

Vertical means the lettering.
However clause (b) means it must be READABLE, upside down isn't easily readable

Rover_Driver

Schedule 3 of the regulations shows the required layout - the correct way up.

GabbaGabbaHey

stator wrote: »

You'd be surprised at the crap software out there.
Remember the motorway average speed cameras that can be defeated by changing lanes?

That had nothing whatsoever to do with the cameras or the technology behind them - it was due to the wording of the legislation which only permitted them to be used in one lane at a time (and which has now been rectified).

mrmot

[quote=[Deleted User];71301241]Irrelevant. The point is "which renders the characters of the registration mark less easily distinguishable to the eye".

Inverting the plate certainly does that, unless the eye in question belongs to someone standing on his head.[/QUOTE]


The human eye captures an inverted image and the brain processes it to be the correct way up, so logic would say that the eye is seeing it the correct way up in the first place.

Wizard_of_Id

Thanks all
The way he acted, I really hope he gets done for something