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A tube or tubes filled with tinsel or
aluminium foil is attatched to the
underside of the car at the rear with the
forward end open and the rear end
covered up by a rotating disc with a tube
sized hole in it.
When you see a GATSO speed camera
ahead you simply push a button inside the
car
and the disc rotates opening the tube
to the through-flow of air and ejecting the
foil out the back of the car.
The chaff, as used by fighter jets to scatter
radar, prevents the camera from detecting
you and thus from triggering.
Of course, you'd have to practise a bit at
releasing the chaff at the right time and
you would leave a lot of litter around the
place.
Vegetable mountain
http://www.foodnetw...n-recipe/index.html
[normzone, Jul 19 2009]
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Or just go fast enough to redshift the
reflected signal beyond the detector's
range. |
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Incidentally, it's "Gatso", not "GATSO" - it's
not an acronym. It's named after the Dutch
rally driver Maurice Gatsonides, who
invented it. |
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What, so it doesn't stand for Government
Approved Tax on Speeding Organisms? |
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No. And in any case, it would be
"Government-Approved" with a hyphen. |
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Why does a cloud of foil behind you block the vision of a camera in front of you? Also if the guy behind you crashes, won't you get a bigger ticket? |
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Yes, admittedly this only works on speed
cameras that are facing the same way that
you are travelling, so they only see the
rear of your car. |
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EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse? |
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Wouldn't you need to set of a nuclear
explosion to generate one of those? |
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If that's what it takes to eliminate the Gatsos, I'm in. I don't have fissionables, but I can contribute a veritable mountain of ionization-type smoke detectors. |
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Did he say 'vegetable mountain'? |
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I like the concept, but littering is against my alignment. |
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And yes, he said "vegetable mountain" (link). |
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