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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?
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday October 23 2020, @08:55AM
It sounds like something from Runaway [wikipedia.org] in real life. There was a chase scene in that movie involving an armed version of such a vehicle. In the film it may have been semi-autonomous and was probably going a lot faster. Still though, it's weird to think that something that was so fantastically sci-fi back then is close to reality, and probably *is* reality in some government projects they don't talk about.
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