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Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org)

Posted by timothy on from the screams-out-for-kickstarter dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Irritated by speeders in his neighborhood and frustrated with the City of Charlottesville's inability or unwillingness to enforce the speed limit, a former professor in the Computer Science department of the University of Virginia created a program in openCV to track vehicle speed on his residential neighborhood street: "You'll find that almost 85 percent of the cars going by are violators [of the neighborhood's 25mph limit]". This includes a city bus doing 34mph.

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  1. Re:One By One by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cop here. I will definitely write a ticket if you bring me evidence of a car messing with you while you're cycling.

    Unfortunately for you, I will be writing the ticket with your name on it for wasting my time.