Infra-red number plate bulbs

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Mon 29 Oct 2007 01:32
Infra-red number plate bulbs - Nsar
There was a slightly daft feature in the Observer today offering tips on how to be off-grid ie make it hard to be tracked by CCTV, credit card usage, mobile phone usage etc and it made the claim that fitting infrared bulbs in place of normal number plate bulbs was legal but would defeat ANPR which uses infrared and would therefore be foxed by infrared light flooding the reg plate.

This sounds pretty unlikely to be true and I would have thought it was illegal.

Anyone know for sure?
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Mon 29 Oct 2007 07:28
Infra-red number plate bulbs - L'escargot
Doesn't the fact that it is infra-red mean that the wavelength of the light is lower than that which can be seen by a human eye? In other words won't the plate not be illuminated at all? tinyurl.com/yt99z7
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Mon 29 Oct 2007 07:34
Infra-red number plate bulbs - L'escargot
.... the wavelength of the light is
lower


Oops ~ wavelength longer, frequency lower.
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Mon 29 Oct 2007 07:40
Infra-red number plate bulbs - Dwight Van Driver

The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001

9 (5) The plate to be lit so that it is easily distinguishable from every part of a relevant area having a diagonal length -

(a) in the case of a plate displaying a mark having characters with a width of 44 millimetres, of 15 metres, and

(b) in any other case, of 18 metres.
11 (2) A registration plate must not be treated in any other way which renders the characters of the registration mark less easily distinguishable to the eye or which would prevent or impair the making of a true photographic image of the plate through the medium of camera and film or any other device.

Could therefore be illegal?

dvd
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