r/whatisit • u/Stepside79 • 1d ago

Solved! This CD situation on a dashboard

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I pulled up to this parked Toyota Prius in a Canadian parking lot. Initially in thought they were using this as a sun reflector but it wasn’t sunny or particularly hot. It was still like this when I came back to my car about 25 mins later.

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u/Drunk_Stoner 1d ago

Weird attempt to distract/blind traffic cams? 🤷‍♂️

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u/TheTriNerd 1d ago

I remember that being a thing many years ago. Even though it was nonsense, people still did it

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u/Boo1957 1d ago

I remember that being a thing when I was learning to drive. It was so annoying when an oncoming car was flashing sunlight off of it. It was like looking at a disco ball.

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u/antonio16309 1d ago

Back in the day some people hung a CD from the rear view mirror because it supposedly "jammed" a cop's radar gun. Not sure what the CDs on the dash are for but your guess sounds plausible enough to me (not plausible in the sense that it would work of course, but plausible that it's reason they are there). 

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u/LMrningStar 1d ago

This is my bet. I've heard this kind of nonsense before. Another idea was to hang a set of keys from the rearview.