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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 Phoenix666 on Friday October 23 2020, @02:55PM
I would think so, but I'm out of my depth here because I am not an RC enthusiast myself. I know my brother has a camera on the drone he flies, but nothing else; he doesn't like to use it that much because he feels a little weird about it like he's invading his neighbors' privacy.
As theoretical speculation, I'd suppose that if a person was an older RC enthusiast who predated the availability of tele-presence on RC vehicles, one would have gotten used to a certain control scheme and reflexively distrust tele-presence. It's like when you like to invert the Y-axis on a game controller, and cannot handle somebody else's system where their defaults are the opposite.
That would make sense. I could see it if the enthusiast had been caught in his real car by the speed camera and wanted to troll the authorities. But it doesn't seem like something an RC hobbyist would casually do, for the aforementioned reasons. Alas, in many parts of the world whimsy and boredom get the better of all of us from time to time...
Washington DC delenda est.