Photo Radar Jammer

[Radar Roy]

There is a Internet company that has begun marketing a new device that is advertized as a photo radar jammer. The device is advertised as a device that senses the flash from a photo radar camera and then flashes back a strobe light.

A simular product was developed by a company in Covertry in the UK and called the Backflash

CA Automotive-Technologies from the UK performed a review of this product, which is posted below:

http://www.ca-autotech.co.uk/test5.shtml

[Flitsservice.nl]

It is very illegal in Holland. They tried to sell it here as well.

[Radar Roy]

A user just sent me a link to this site that also reviewed the Backflash that states that it does not work: http://www.speed-trap.co.uk/Avoid_Ho...id_Gadgets.htm

This is the one device that could have lived up to it's claims had the technology not been fundamentally flawed. It's a pair of slave flashguns that you mount on either side of your numberplate. Light sensors on top of the devices detect the flash from a roadside camera and the guns are triggered to supposedly "blind" the camera and overexpose the image. I was given one of these to check over for an interview with BBC News 24, and I've got to say I was not convinced...