The company that makes these is based near to me here in GA... was wondering why I'm seeing them multiply. (They'd be more useful if they went to triple digits):
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I always speed up when I see one of those. I like to drive the number on the reading as high as possible. :evildude:
I try to get the number to match the year of the car I'm driving. Usually 69 or 72 :lol:
Quote from: dazzleman on July 10, 2016, 03:05:35 AM
I always speed up when I see one of those. I like to drive the number on the reading as high as possible. :evildude:
The number stops going higher and just starts blinking after about 20 over.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on July 10, 2016, 09:30:44 AM
The number stops going higher and just starts blinking after about 20 over.
That rather limits its usefulness as a speedometer calibration tool.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on July 10, 2016, 09:30:44 AM
The number stops going higher and just starts blinking after about 20 over.
One I had frequently encountered started flashing the message "SLOW DOWN" after 90 kph in a 60 kph zone.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on July 10, 2016, 09:30:44 AM
The number stops going higher and just starts blinking after about 20 over.
My goal is to get it to blink fast.
Quote from: FoMoJo on July 10, 2016, 09:47:12 AM
One I had frequently encountered started flashing the message "SLOW DOWN" after 90 kph in a 60 kph zone.
It's probably a programmable setting.
Quote from: Morris Minor on July 10, 2016, 09:42:25 AM
That rather limits its usefulness as a speedometer calibration tool.
Your phone is better for that anyways.
I don't mind them when it's just as pictured, but when there is an accompanying "Slow Down" message for anything over the limit, I definitely speed up. Fuck you, sign, telling me what to do.
Quote from: Rupert on July 10, 2016, 11:02:45 AM
I don't mind them when it's just as pictured, but when there is an accompanying "Slow Down" message for anything over the limit, I definitely speed up. Fuck you, sign, telling me what to do.
Yeah, I have the same impulse. Gives me a satisfying feeling to trip the warning. Never much cared for 'Big Brother'.
Quote from: FoMoJo on July 10, 2016, 12:15:47 PM
Yeah, I have the same impulse. Gives me a satisfying feeling to trip the warning. Never much cared for 'Big Brother'.
Such a defiant old goat..... :lol:
Quote from: dazzleman on July 10, 2016, 01:07:09 PM
Such a defiant old goat..... :lol:
The truth is, and you may be experiencing this as well, we never really get over our teenage impulses in some respects :praise:. I'm just a bit more careful about not getting caught though.
Quote from: FoMoJo on July 10, 2016, 01:16:02 PM
The truth is, and you may be experiencing this as well, we never really get over our teenage impulses in some respects :praise:. I'm just a bit more careful about not getting caught though.
You're right about that. I can definitely relate.
There was one of those standalone police ones near my friends house, in a 45 zone. I always tried to get it to 100 to see what would happen. Never could, though. 83 was the best the E320 could do, up a hill in a relatively short distance.
Quote from: Raza on July 17, 2016, 08:10:26 PM
There was one of those standalone police ones near my friends house, in a 45 zone. I always tried to get it to 100 to see what would happen. Never could, though. 83 was the best the E320 could do, up a hill in a relatively short distance.
You did pretty well. My goal when passing one of those things is generally to be about 20 mph over the speed limit, depending upon location and conditions.
Do they ever use "safety man" in your area, a police car with a mannequin in it, out there to fool people into slowing down?
I sometimes dream about firing a shot into one of those in the middle of the night from behind a tree. And then every year or so, repeat. Just dreaming. I'll never have the balls to do that.
There's always pressure in my neighborhood to put in speed bumps to deter speeders. Wondering if these things would be a better bet. Speed bumps are loathsome.
Quote from: Morris Minor on July 18, 2016, 06:33:56 AM
There's always pressure in my neighborhood to put in speed bumps to deter speeders. Wondering if these things would be a better bet. Speed bumps are loathsome.
I never understand why people slow to a crawl when going over a speed bump. Even in SUVs. I usually take them at 10-15 mph.
Quote from: veeman on July 18, 2016, 08:26:12 AM
I never understand why people slow to a crawl when going over a speed bump. Even in SUVs. I usually take them at 10-15 mph.
My headers will bottom out if I don't crawl over.
Speedbumps are my worst enemy and I refuse to go places that have them.
Quote from: dazzleman on July 17, 2016, 08:14:49 PM
You did pretty well. My goal when passing one of those things is generally to be about 20 mph over the speed limit, depending upon location and conditions.
Do they ever use "safety man" in your area, a police car with a mannequin in it, out there to fool people into slowing down?
I've seen cars parked with no one in them as a way to slow people down, but I don't think I've ever seen one with a dummy in it.
Quote from: CaminoRacer on July 18, 2016, 09:27:26 AM
My headers will bottom out if I don't crawl over.
Speedbumps are my worst enemy and I refuse to go places that have them.
I've got to be really careful with speed bumps and certain types of railroad tracks.
Quote from: Raza on July 18, 2016, 09:33:54 AM
I've seen cars parked with no one in them as a way to slow people down, but I don't think I've ever seen one with a dummy in it.
Years ago, a small city called Pleasant Ridge near me would park one out on the half mile of Woodward Ave that they had; older cruiser with what for the life of me looked like a village person blow up doll in it. They stopped when it became a thing to take pictures with the car; usually doing something lewd.
(https://nostromoone.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/wpid-1iimy.jpg)
Lol there's one of these in front of my school's hospital. My record is 42 mph (its a 20 zone
The only ones I've seen locally are the portable trailer kind, which start flashing "SLOW DOWN" once you're more than 5 over the posted limit. Takes away the ability to high score it.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on July 18, 2016, 09:52:40 AM
Years ago, a small city called Pleasant Ridge near me would park one out on the half mile of Woodward Ave that they had; older cruiser with what for the life of me looked like a village person blow up doll in it. They stopped when it became a thing to take pictures with the car; usually doing something lewd.
:lol:
Quote from: Morris Minor on July 18, 2016, 06:33:56 AM
There's always pressure in my neighborhood to put in speed bumps to deter speeders. Wondering if these things would be a better bet. Speed bumps are loathsome.
I'm determined to take those at the speed limit, but if I have to slow down, sometimes I honk. Fuck those.
Quote from: Rupert on July 18, 2016, 06:38:09 PM
I'm determined to take those at the speed limit, but if I have to slow down, sometimes I honk. Fuck those.
Oh now that would be annoying. Good idea.
Quote from: Rupert on July 18, 2016, 06:38:09 PM
I'm determined to take those at the speed limit, but if I have to slow down, sometimes I honk. Fuck those.
Excellent.
Quote from: AutobahnSHO on July 21, 2016, 04:46:46 AM
Excellent.
Not as much fun as running up your speed for one of the radar signs.
Quote from: veeman on July 18, 2016, 08:26:12 AM
I never understand why people slow to a crawl when going over a speed bump. Even in SUVs. I usually take them at 10-15 mph.
Quote from: CaminoRacer on July 18, 2016, 09:27:26 AM
My headers will bottom out if I don't crawl over.
Speedbumps are my worst enemy and I refuse to go places that have them.
I hate those huge speed humps they have around there that just destroys car bumpers. You can see how many cars that have grounded out on the stupid things because there is an enormous trench dug out in the road right after the bump causing no doubt millions of dollars of property damage to countless cars. You literally have to do like 3mph over them to not ground out. It's like they purposely engineered those things to fuck up your car.
And we have streets that have one literally every 1/4 mile. Well the joke is on them, because at night I basically use them as my personal 0-100-0 test track.
I don't think there's a single speed bump in the UP. :rockon: