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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 nishi.b on Friday October 23 2020, @03:47PM (1 child)
Well yes, you can get pretty long-range (multiple kilometers) RC vehicle by using the technologies used for drones.
You can use first person view (FPV) to pilot, and I suppose it is much easier with a car than with a drone : I tried that myself and crashed pretty consistently ;)
Here is an example of real long-range RC drone flying over a well-known mountain :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ2BSHNgTlo [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2020, @07:44PM
Wonder if it's worth training birds to do the FPV thing...
Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um8M9azpmb4 [youtube.com]
But with more control e.g. maybe train the bird to turn left or right depending on whether the left or right led lights up.