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Remote-controlled Model Car Spotted at 10km/h Over the Speed Limit

posted by martyb on Friday October 23 2020, @08:15AM   
from the Zoom!-Zoom! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

YLE English reports on a camera trap which photographed a speeding model car on a highway.

Police in the southeastern city of Hamina [in Finland] are searching for the owner of a remote-controlled model car which was caught travelling at 70km/h in a 60km/h zone.

The approximately 50-centimetre-long [~20-inch] mini-car was captured by a new high-resolution camera on Highway 26 near the village of Töytäri.

Chief inspector Dennis Pasterstein of the Police Traffic Safety Centre told Yle that the car in question should not be considered a toy.

"This is a model car for a more serious enthusiast with a much more powerful engine. Ordinary toys do not travel at such a speed," Pasterstein said, adding that this is a unique case for the safety centre.

It was clocked at 70.3 km/h (43.6 mph) in a 60 km/h (37.3 mph) zone. What was your top speed with a remote-controlled vehicle?

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• beware sleeping cameras beware sleeping cameras (Score: 4, Interesting) by lentilla on Friday October 23 2020, @08:53AM (3 children)

  by lentilla (1770) on Friday October 23 2020, @08:53AM (#1067823)

  Some years ago; in the early hours of the morning; I was riding a bicycle home. The streets were deserted, so I took a short cut along a main road riding against the (non-existent) traffic.

  I took a turn off the main road and; laughingly noting a speed camera standing quiet sentinel to the empty road; took both my hands off the handlebars and presented a two handed salute as I leaned into the corner.

  At once there was an almighty flash as the camera took my portrait.

  I hope the guys reviewing the photo got a good laugh out of that one.

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• Re:beware sleeping cameras Re:beware sleeping cameras (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2020, @09:04AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2020, @09:04AM (#1067827)

  A good while back I saw a photo featured on the front page of a back section of the newspaper showing someone riding a motorcycle 120kph in a 60kph zone past a camera ... while doing a wheelie ... and standing on the seat. It would have been easy enough to track down who it was but I never saw a followup article.

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  • Re:beware sleeping cameras (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday October 23 2020, @05:21PM

    by Freeman (732) on Friday October 23 2020, @05:21PM (#1067958) Journal

    Yeah, that's just all kinds of stupid. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. The catastrophic end there would be that they hit a pebble and yeah, no need to imagine the rest.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

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• Re:beware sleeping cameras (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2020, @12:18AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2020, @12:18AM (#1068107)

  Local cops have a trailer with radar and speed display that they leave in different places to deter speeders (no ticket, just a "your speed is" message). I rode up on my bicycle and saw a silly fast speed compared to what I was doing. So I stopped in front of it and picked up the front wheel, spun it and the radar read the speed of the spokes...when I turned the wheel slightly away from pointing straight at the radar horn antenna.

  In normal riding the outer end of the spokes/spoke-nipples are going nearly 2x the ground speed at the top of the wheel and 0 ground speed at the tire contact patch. The radar was reading nearly double my actual speed.

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