At 06:20 AM 10/6/2004, Brian Reynolds wrote: >In NYC the red light cameras have a very visible flash of light when >they go off. They are set up to only trigger when they sense a >vehicle in the intersection while the light is red. I've always >assumed that the visible flash was sort of a "Aha! We got you!" notice >to the drivers in the intersection. I'm not even sure that the flash >is for photographic purposes (i.e., I think that the camera itself may >be IR based like everyone else uses). This is true. And they always seem to be set-up to photograph the front of a car. I don't have a license plate on the front of my car - I don't run red lights - but what good is it if there's no plate? And I hear that many many traffic courts won't honor these things. What a waste of good film... Jim ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.