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Since they sent you a photo of your car, just send them a photo of your check for the fine!
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Road & Track ran a blurb on that a few years back. Some guy tried that. So the state, in return, sent him a picture of handcuffs. Apparently he wound up paying.
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Screw the state, lie and lie right now
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IIRC, I think you need to not only provide the guilty party's name, but also enough evidence that they can go track him down.
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Up here in Minneapolis we had traffic cameras installed several months ago, but a judge ruled that they could no longer be used about a month ago. I believe the decision was based on the inability to determine who was driving the vehicle.
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That's how they also do it in California. This I know, as I grew up there. The camera takes a couple photo's of you: from front and behind. Supposedly also printed on the photo are the time/date and speed. Someone then looks up the license plate number. They then cross-reference that name on the registration with the photo of that same person on the DMV files (remember, that photo is now computerized), and if the photos match, then a ticket gets mailed out. If there's no match, then no ticket gets sent out. So to foil the system (at least in Cali), you can disguise your face with a hat, the sunvisor, cellphone, mask, sandwich, turning away, etc. Or, maybe you can just register your car in your wife's name, and your wife's car in your name...
edit: I'm just a bit irritated having found out that there are municipalities and companies that are developing similar remote-ticketing technology (it's not like there's actually a cop sitting there in the camera trailer, BTW) for drive-by noise standards. So any modified exhaust (or loud music or honking) can soon be ticketed, too. Not sure how accurate those microphones will be, but it's not necessarily a good development in my book. Where the heck are people supposed to find original pipes for old, used vehicles?