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Road Marker Marks You
If you could make a reflective road marker (a "road stud", in the jargon) that contained a small solar cell and battery, you would be able to: A) power a LED at night to provide lit lanes, not just reflection; B) monitor for fog or water on the road surface; C) monitor the temperature to detect ice; D) use infrared ranging and embedded cameras to detect and report the license number of anyone speeding on the road; E) All of the above. If the company can make them cheap enough, they'll be everywhere in a few years.
Here come the "Soviet Russia" jokes.
In Capitalist America, Road Marker Marks YOU!
5mm? 70mph? What if I'm driving in a quarter inch of water at 115kph?
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F) Drive along with a truck and a shovel, collecting enough solar panels and batteries to power your house.
then we could start a company that tore the markers off the road then sold them back to the Company. We will be rich! Or maybe we will make Marks to Mark where the road markers end up... there is an Idea for you.
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
Lets just get it out of the way
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The theft of multiple road markers is therefore referred to as "compiling RPMs"
--- Corporations Are A Fad.
Why on earth would you be outside at midnight? Sounds suspicious to me.
I'm sure I'm not the only one willing to bet my life savings that this type of thing will only raise rates.
You're crazy. This is just like when we got CDs and DVDs. They were more expensive at first, but once they got the manufacturing issues worked out, the prices came down just as promised.
What? They didn't? Shit.
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some equivalent system that would interact with the windshield of the car to visibly plot lanes etc...
Anything that can be hacked will be hacked.
Do you really want to see a picture of the goatse man on your windshield as you are driving on the highway?
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
.. and the flickering gives you a bloody awful headache after a couple of miles.
Actually doors are kind of nice for other reasons:
- They keep (most) people out of my house.
- They hide Old People Sex so I won't go blind while driving down the street (and mask the sound of wrinkly liverspotted skin rubbing on wrinkly liverspotted skin).
- They provide us exercise by making us get up to let cats/dogs in/out.
So rather than take off all doors, just plan on having a BigBrotherCam(tm) installed for your protection instead (the 1984 kind not the TV show kind).
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
"Posted speed limit" is the phrase, aka "ignored arbitrary number."
The Spoon
Updated 6/28/2011
Right. Force. Like pounds. ;-)
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Or if they do, they won't last past the first snow. Along comes a snowplow, and *pop* *pop* *pop* there go the reflectors, smart or not, right into the ditch. Along with the odd hunk of concrete that was sticking up, unlucky mailboxes, small cars...
Nice idea for SoCal, tho.
Are you surprised that someone named "Mr. Dicks" wants to put things into holes...
Just remember, when you hit them with the sledgehammer, hit them slowly or they'll take your picture!
Perry county, central PA. Any given road that's not an Interstate will have any number of the following defects or problems:
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Since they can also form packs, they can turn into a revenue center for municipalities either by extorting money from homeless people in the neighborhood or by breaking them up for parts.
Version 2.5 will include the ability to self-assemble, leading the end of life as we know it. Personally, I salute our new artifically-intelligent speed bump overlords!
I had the same thing happen to me, except all I (thump) could see (thump) was the occasional cat's eyes. (thump)
You know what?
And if you get caught stealing them, you could always claim it's because of a medical condition; RPM dependancy!
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Are you making this up? You're telling me that a lawmaker was actually interested in improving safety instead of making more revenue? Did you come from one of those parallel universes discovered with a laser pointer?
What if Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist does a guest column on Slashdot?
...and afterwards called in to see a friend. Before I knew it I was trying to cycle home at 4 AM while completely drunk. I don't remember most of the ride (approximately 10 miles) but I do recall that at one point I approached an intersection and was blurrily wondering what all the flashing yellow lights were for. Anyhoo, naturally, I rode on without caring much, even though I remember hearing some guys yelling at me, and then a mile or so later on realizing that the traffic signals were red (not much traffic at that intersection in the early hours, thankfully). Anyhoo, I somehow made it home in one piece, and went to bed. The next day, through a raging hangover, I noticed my bike was covered in white paint. A crew had been roadmarking at the intersection and I'd rode right through it. That was years ago, but if you look carefully you can still see my tire tracks there.
Yes, and without such prohibitive costs too!