Front Numberplates are officially dead.

So it is pretend carbon fibre? Or, do you need a carbon fibre bracket?

Hammo

 

Why hit a pedestrian? What did they ever do to you?

Al

 

Were you competing in a pedestrian hitting contest with aus.cars road
safety savior, Rainbow Warrior?

Al

 

Bit disappointing, never thought I'd see you fold on one of your invalid
arguments.

Al

 

Nah, the kid was stealing stuff from a truck, truckie caught him, but the
kid slipped and ran straight across the road in front of me. Dark road, I
didn't see him till he was rolling over my bonnet.

Police gave his parents my contact details which I wasn't too happy about.

You might have read about a mate of mine who got knocked off his bike by a
pedestrian. The one the cops charged with Neg Drive afterwards.

Al

 

Just thinking back... in all the discussion about front plates, does
anyone remember *illumination* being mentioned?

For front plates to be useful around the clock, they would need to have
a light shining on them, no; isn't that in the relevant ADR, too?

So, instead of just figuring out how to shrink-wrap a front plate onto
the pointy nose of a sportsbike which is mostly headlights and
windscreen, you now have to come up with a way to mount (and wire up) a
small, protruding light.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:55:33 +1000

<insert crow imitation here>

Never thought of that.

Of course speed cameras use flashes, and this was always about cameras
seeing plates, not people. No matter what Shane thinks.

Zebee

 

I don't think I've ever seen a non-bling car that had the front
numberplate illuminated.


BTH

 

Can cameras take effective pictures of a front plate if the headlight is on?

Theo

 

The cameras in victoria which face the front of the vehicle all use
infra-red imaging I think. They seem to work effectively in the tunnels
where there is very poor light and lots of vehicles would have their
lights on. They also use these on unlit sections of other freeways
apparently without any trouble identifying vehicles.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

: Zebee Johnstone wrote:
: >
: > It is a huge step forward.
:
: Just thinking back... in all the discussion about front plates, does
: anyone remember *illumination* being mentioned?
:
: For front plates to be useful around the clock, they would need to have
: a light shining on them, no; isn't that in the relevant ADR, too?

aha! now I know why I got a defect notice on my Mazda bubble car ...
somebody must have removed the light over the front number plate ...


: So, instead of just figuring out how to shrink-wrap a front plate onto
: the pointy nose of a sportsbike which is mostly headlights and
: windscreen, you now have to come up with a way to mount (and wire up) a
: small, protruding light.

now why didn't Shane think of that ?


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so that's all you have to offer?

Kev