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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2020, @12:18AM
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.