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.

  • BakerBagelEnglish
    485·
    8 months ago

    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.

        • BakerBagelEnglish
          171·
          8 months ago

          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.

          • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            6·
            8 months ago

            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.

            • CoolMatt@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              8 months ago

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

              • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                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.

                • CoolMatt@lemmy.caEnglish
                  1·
                  8 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

    • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
      27·
      8 months ago

      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.