The pattern does not stop a camera from recording. Instead, it is designed to prevent the software connected to the camera from recognizing what it sees. A person or car wearing the pattern would still appear in the footage, but the detection system may not flag it as a person or vehicle.
I wonder if these systems won’t “notice” and record the license plate on its own if they don’t think there’s a vehicle present.
Should have done random license plates
From this bit in the article:
I wonder if these systems won’t “notice” and record the license plate on its own if they don’t think there’s a vehicle present.
Detected smudge with license plate. SWAT team has been dispatched.
That’s the trick, though. With these patterns, the camera doesn’t even recognize that there’s a car there at all.
Would it read a license plate if you set it in the bushes?
There’s an idea. Start putting fake license plates everywhere to poison ALPRs.