Speed/traffic sensors???

[blakbearddelite]

I've noticed these black things in the road the last few weeks in Schaumburg and a few other cities. Does anyone know what they are? Are they the high tech version of those old black hoses they used to lay on the street to measure traffic?

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[Mook]

land mines.

 

[99PONTIACGP]

land mines.

 

[blakbearddelite]

land mines.

I thought the same thing!! I've been swerving around them for a week! I ran this old lady off the road because one came out of nowhere.

 

[Mook]

ive been thinking of them as the barrels from donkey kong. i try to jump my car over them.

 

[Eagle]

To evaluate the effectiveness of the mobile radar speed display signs in construction zones, MTO is using them in conjunction with surface mounted sensors. The sensors are easily installed in the centre of a lane and collect data for up to two weeks on a single charge. Vehicle speed, classification, date"/"time, and traffic volumes are collected by the sensors connect and conveniently uploaded to a laptop computer. For this study, data is being collected first without signs, then with various configurations of sign placement and enforcement.

nifty

 

[Jizzums]

we have these things on our street alllllllll the time

 

[blakbearddelite]

I wonder if the sensors will read through duct tape....

 

[Eagle]

? of course they will. they're magnetic you silly guy

 

[blakbearddelite]

There goes my plan to foil the government's study on traffic flow.

 

[SirMarco]

Sledge Hammer to them

 

[Handsome Jesus]

I would LOL if I saw a guy in the middle of a road with a sledge hammer pounding one of these things

 

[SirMarco]

Come swing by my house. You'll see me out there tearin shit up.

 

[hellraiser319]

IDK, I think I remember tearing one off the road and it was just rubber...then again I did a lot of mind altering stuff back in the day...

 

[radioguy6]

There goes my plan to foil the government's study on traffic flow.

just duct tape a big magnet onto it!

 

[Eagle]

or just hit it with a sledge like Marco suggested...

 

[02BlueGT]

or just hit it with a sledge like Marco suggested...

It is made to be run over by Semi's, not sure you can do much physical harm to the thing with hand tools

 

[Eagle]

its not really supposed to be ran over, thats why they put it in the center of the lane...

BTW, you must not have ever seen me swing a BFH before...

 

[blakbearddelite]

I think he meant it is designed to be able to withstand being run over.

 

[EmersonHart13]

They put it in the center of the lane so vehicles drive over it and there is something to read, if it was off to one side some drivers might miss it or purposely drive around it, therefore skewing the numbers.

 

[LaneLander]

Plastics are the key to the future. Build a plastic car and then there is nothing for the sensor to read.

 

[TransHed]

in for sledgehammer video

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I saw quite a few on barrington rd this morning.

I swerved around all of them....I don't need them reading my thoughts!!

 

[KnightFan26917]

I've noticed these black things in the road the last few weeks in Schaumburg and a few other cities.

Yep ... noticed some be placed on Hillcrest, just west of Roselle Rd, recently.

And ... noticed some along IL RT 58 between Elgin and Schaumburg ... at first in a couple different places, but then some of them disappeared in a day or so.

Seems like everytime I see these, road construction follows.......ugh.



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[Oreif]

Yep ... noticed some be placed on Hillcrest, just west of Roselle Rd, recently.

And ... noticed some along IL RT 58 between Elgin and Schaumburg ... at first in a couple different places, but then some of them disappeared in a day or so.

Seems like everytime I see these, road construction follows.......ugh.



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SHHHH, That is the master plan. Record traffic flow, If it's good, Start doing construction on it so everyone has to slow down.