Richard was tired of getting the red light s cams tickets in the mail. This was costing him and there is no practical way to fight them. It is like the fleecing of lambs. The local government just helps themselves to your budget. When something like the highway system becomes so used and popular, it starts to get eroded by every scam artist, every politician, and every garage on the way. That is the nature of society. Even the Roman Empire collapsed at one point on the time continuum.
Richard had to think of something, change his route, move to another town, get another job or something. Richard was thinking of many ideas as he used his new 3-D printer to create a mold from an electronic drawing.
As Richard was going through all this other residents were going through many issues with the local police department traffic (revenue,) division. In one case a lady is arrested on traffic warrants, cavity searched and assaulted, and it happened to other ladies and wives. Likewise young men are arrested and thrown in jail with rough gays. One husband was gang raped in jail but could not prove his case against the city without enormous embarrassment and humiliation. The arrests are baseless but the fines earn the city a lot of money. The arrests take away a lot from the local community. The arrests erode the local economy by reducing shopping and spending money.
With his educational background Richard also knew many things about the internet, programming, and hacking. He started to come up with a plan to fight fire with fire.
As his plan started to come together, Richard started going about the city taking pictures of other cars. He hit on the idea of taking pictures of some of the official's cars and license tags.
Using his software, pictures of other vehicles, and the 3-D printer Richard designed and printed a form fitting mold that has 1-way glass, with a clear electronic multi-layer section over windshield and license tags such that the visage of the driver looks 3-D and real, even with motion, and the tags show the copied tags, when an electrical switch is turned off the image in the windshield and the tags turns clear and the real person and tags show.