Road Marker Marks You 731
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.
Oh shit (Score:5, Funny)
Capitalist America (Score:3, Funny)
In Soviet Russia... (Score:-1, Funny)
Aqua-planing ? (Score:5, Funny)
5mm? 70mph? What if I'm driving in a quarter inch of water at 115kph?
Or F (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh shit (Score:4, Funny)
Mile markers drive into privacy advocates.
Money everywhere... (Score:2, Funny)
Lets just get it out of the way (Score:3, Funny)
F) CowboyNeal
Re:Oh shit (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Aqua-planing ? (Score:2, Funny)
We Americans all feel stupid now bc we don't use the metric system (as already pointed out [slashdot.org] a little while ago)
At least we can all agree on a standard clock!
Re:Or F (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Aqua-planing ? (Score:3, Funny)
http://simpsons.shafe.com/hogshead.html
Re:Aqua-planing ? (Score:4, Funny)
That depends on how many Newtons your car weighs.
Re:"Road Marker" (Score:5, Funny)
The theft of multiple road markers is therefore referred to as "compiling RPMs"
Re:Oh shit (Score:4, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, You mark Road Marker...
Skevin
Re:Lets just get it out of the way (Score:5, Funny)
F) CowboyNeal
In Soviet Russia, CowboyNeal F's you!
Re:Oh shit (Score:2, Funny)
For once, it seems as if those damn Russians got it right.
Re:Aqua-planing ? (Score:4, Funny)
Fig or strawberry?
Re:Oh shit (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Aqua-planing ? (Score:5, Funny)
You work in the aerospace industry?
KFG
Re:Aqua-planing ? (Score:1, Funny)
To me, time zones are evil. I wish I had a dollar for every time something at work went awry because of "Oh, you meant 3:00 _my time_?"
Kill all the timezones, that's the first thing we'll do. And while you're at it, abolish AM and PM as well. I'd much rather make the minor mental adjustment that I now wake up at 11:00 instead of 6:00, than have to continually make adjustments all day when I'm talking to people across the country or elsewhere in the world.
That's one reason I like the British so much. They're one of the only countries in the world who have dropped the parochial "local time" nonsense and switched to GMT.
Re:Aqua-planing ? (Score:5, Funny)
The important thing is to keep your mm*mph below 350. Just as 5 x 70 will cause you to lose control, driving on 1mm of water at 350 mph will also cause you to lose control. Similarly, driving 1 mph on 350 mm of water will also cause you to lose control.
Re:Shades of Orwell (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Insurance go down?? (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:I've thought about this... (Score:3, Funny)
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?
Re:There are some of these on my route to college (Score:2, Funny)
Re:With the sensors in them, ... (Score:3, Funny)
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).
Re:Just make them cheap enough? (Score:3, Funny)
Weight (Score:4, Funny)
They won't come to Minnesota (Score:3, Funny)
Nice idea for SoCal, tho.
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Re:sorry but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just make them cheap enough? (Score:5, Funny)
Perry county, central PA. Any given road that's not an Interstate will have any number of the following defects or problems:
Release 2.0 . . . (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Article Text (Score:3, Funny)
I had the same thing happen to me, except all I (thump) could see (thump) was the occasional cat's eyes. (thump)
Re:"Road Marker" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Aqua-planing ? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Don't ticket me - control my car's max speed (Score:4, Funny)
Frist Post? (Score:3, Funny)
I Was Out Training One Day... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:solved (Score:1, Funny)