Yeah I know these are used for counting vehicles but can they also be used for detecting vehicle speed?

Description: two pneumatic hoses, affixed to a road. They lead to a box that’s locked to a telephone pole. Location is southern California. On a minor artery road.

Doubtful that it’s to survey if a new stop sign is needed since the next street is minor, dead ends into this one and already has a stop sign. The next intersection with another minor artery already has a stop sign.

Extremely doubtful that a traffic light is being considered since there isn’t anywhere near the amount of traffic to justify one.

This is located on a slope. Many cars speed down here. That’s why I’m wondering about speed sensing by this device.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Since I have neither the time nor the inclination to read it, but I do have a question- can you answer it? Quit record if you just jumped on it? Or you and like five friends?

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Pretty sure it’ll be seen as noise and ignored. The algorithms aren’t perfect but they’re pretty tight and look for specific things. Unless you can emulate with a reasonable level of accuracy what is looking for it’ll just ignore what you do.