Many drivers don't care much about speed cameras. Now many have found out that cloned license plates cheat speed cameras with artificial intelligence.
The police are reluctant to say how many cameras monitor traffic in Denmark. But it's no secret that speed cameras can be fooled.
Just like these can be wrong. But cheating is difficult to eliminate. Even if the speed traps are equipped with artificial intelligence.
"Despite the advanced technology in the system, it ultimately relies on a piece of plastic attached to both ends of the vehicle," Professor Fraser Sampson told Devonlive .
The professor served on the committee that ultimately recommended that the English police purchase the so-called ANPG cameras, or Automatic Number Plate Recognition.
The small pieces of plastic make the actual license plate on the car invisible to the camera, even though the technology behind the lens is very advanced.
The cheating is already so widespread that the city council in Wolverhampton, among others, has had enough. They have decided that it will cost you your driving license to be caught with the little pieces of plastic on your number plates.
In the rest of the country, drivers caught with these types of manipulated number plates will be fined 100 British pounds. This is equivalent to just over 900 Danish kroner. However, the small pieces of plastic can be very difficult to see, says Fraser Sampson.
Because when placed correctly, they are almost invisible on the license plates. Seeing them clearly requires a very close look. Here in Denmark, the authorities are cracking down even harder on this kind of fun.
In 2016, for example, a driver was fined 18,000 kroner for speeding in a car that only had one of its correct license plates. The other was taken from a similar car. Read more about it here .
Some drivers are so indifferent to speed cameras and their contribution to the state coffers that they end up with explosions. This happened, for example, in Germany, where a driver became so angry that he was speeded at 100 km/h that he blew up a speed camera.
