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Old Jan 6, 2011 | 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by keyplyr
I use a free app on my Android phone called Trapster.

The app alerts you when your getting near red light cameras, speed traps, inspection points, and other sneaky LEO practices. It a comprehensive realtime database of user reports - not perfect but getting better and better. Law enforcement made a statement that they support this technology since the people who use it actually slow down when they get the alert a camera is present

I have my phone connected to my XM receiver (which I no longer use) via audio cable offered by CF member Ray Kawal (website.)

I'm glad there is an app out there for this. I don't like to see people getting tickets but I believe in red light cameras. Two intersections near work (I have to go through both) are so bad with drivers running red lights that it is unsafe to immediately leave the intersection when your light turns green.

I've seen comments that red light cameras are "Big Brother" and shouldn't be allowed. I disagree. No one has the "right" to run a red light and if you do you deserve a ticket. If cameras and/or Andriod apps will stop the practice of running through lights I am all for them.
Old Jan 6, 2011 | 09:13 AM
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I saw the light too, at 6:00 A.M. on Sunday with nary a soul around. This was in Newport Beach (Calif) and I have had no front license on my Vettes since my first in '71 - never been warned or ticketed for it. The camera shot the front view, a close-up mug shot and a rear view. Counts as a moving violation and affects points too. I elected to endure an 8 hour driving class and had the ticket expunged.

Way back when I got that red light ticket, someone gave me a thin sheet of thermo plastic to place over my rear license plate beneath the frame holder but over the surface of the license plate. It's clear and you can see through it, but when a flashlight or FLASH hits it, it blurs and distorts the plate numbers. I don't know where this plastic came from but likely others know where to acquire it. I don't have it installed on my new 2011 Z.

These people are desperate!!!
New for 2011:
VC 21453(A) $436 Failure to stop at a red signal.
VC 22507(A) $976 Violation of disabled parking provisions, first offense.
VC 22507(B) $1876 Violation of disabled parking provisions, second offense.
VC 26708 $178 Unlawful material on vehicle windows.
VC 27150 $178 Adequate muffler required.
VC 22350 $328 Unsafe speed, 16 to 25 miles over the limit.
VC 22450 $214 Failure to stop at a stop sign.
VC 22454(A) $616 Passing a school bus with flashing red signals.
VC 23123(A) $148 Driving while using a wireless phone not hands free, first offense .
I know someone who got this and it ended up costing $274
Old Jan 6, 2011 | 09:22 AM
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Yup, thought I was going to see something in the mail myself. Stopped at a blinking red one morning and proceeded through... bam flash city. although the signal was out I thought I was gonna have to fight but nothing ever came, thankfully.
Old Jan 6, 2011 | 09:36 AM
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Some should be ticketed for bringing back a thread 6 months old.

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