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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.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It blew my kond ehen i foind oit that engineers won't even factor in cars when designing major bridges because they are essentially a rounding error compared to semi-trucks.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The typos started at the precise moment your mind was blown.

Please don't change them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't bother them, they are busy having a stroke.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haha, not quite. Was having a drink and smoking a cigar after work. I know i should proofread more since my autocorrect has been absolutely dog shit for the past 6 years, but i just can't commit to it.

If anyone has a half-decent Android keyboard recommendedation, I'm absolutely down to switch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft SwiftKey is not bad if you don't mind the data gathering. I swiped this whole reply and only had to correct one word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I love swipe, but it types ~~competent won't~~ completely wrong words all the time for me wtf am I doing wrong

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know. Maybe I've trained it throughout the years or maybe I don't even notice when I correct shit, but it works well enough for me that I don't really notice its imperfections anymore. Either way I've not found a better swipe keyboard so MS can have all my typed data in exchange for this convenience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hmm, I believe you! Maybe I should reset it and start over then. Swipe works so terribly for me I end up typing letter by letter most of the time. It gets really tiring on the fingers when your phone is a tool for work

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kinda true. Regular cars have an Equivalent Single-Axle Load (ESAL) of 0.0004. Basically, it takes about 9,600 cars to put as much wear on the pavement as one 5-axle Semi.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Similar story for bikes and foot traffic, vs cars IIRC. You can have a staggering number of bikes and foot traffic with very light wear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That’s the secret of Roman roads