British Traffic Cameras Fooled by ‘Euro’ Plates

British drivers have found a new, albeit illegal, way to outwit the much-loathed traffic cameras in that country.

Drivers are attempting to use number plates that are styled to look like German tags, with slightly different fonts and spacing than on the British items. It’s the spacing of the digits, as well as the ‘stadt seals’, the small badges that indicate the city in which a car is registered, that trip up the cameras.

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Constable Luigi Guerriero of the Bedfordshire Police, an expert in number plate recognition, said, “Certain cameras will pick up these plates, but some won’t because all they see is a foreign plate.”

Despite this half-won victory over the omnipresent cameras, that fact remains that wearing the Euro-style plates will render a vehicle illegal for road use. A fact, which is mentioned at many of the websites selling the tricky plates, but only in the smallest of fonts. Fair warning, Big Brother is still watching.

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