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I've often thought of doing the same thing. Our current and previous houses are/were on corner intersections of our neighborhood. I'd love to see an open sourc

I've often thought of doing the same thing. Our current and previous houses are/were on corner intersections of our neighborhood. I'd love to see an open source implementation of this. I'd put it up to get data on speeding and see if it could be adapted to catch people running the stop sign in front of my house. I see at least 2 cars per day run it and that's just in the time I'm outside to do quick things like checking the mail.

pc86 11y ago
This seems like it would be harder. Would you have to lock onto the tires to catch a certain number of frames without movement? I would thinking rolling through a stop sign (especially at an intersection that is not a 4-way stop) would be much more dangerous than going 30 in a 25.
- edwhitesell 11y ago
  > I would thinking rolling through a stop sign (especially at an intersection that is not a 4-way stop) would be much more dangerous than going 30 in a 25. This is exactly the scenario I have outside of my house. The speed limit on both streets is 25mph, but when most people don't stop at the stop signs and everyone is going too fast... The issue is even worse at certain times of the year (right now) because, depending on the direction you are going, the cars with no stop signs are mostly blinded by the position of the sun between trees and houses. Just last Monday a neighbor stopped by to say he turned the corner and side-swiped my mailbox because he couldn't see anything.
brazzledazzle 11y ago
There's a stop sign near my house that is often ignored and when I watch people blow through it (while obviously speeding) I wonder how much fear for letting our children wander is reinforced by behavior like that and how a lack of children playing reinforces that behavior. As far as speeding goes, I generally stick to the limit in a residential but when I'm being tailgated I'll speed up to 30mph. I'd rather only have to worry about stopping the force of my vehicle if a child runs out in front of my car. But it rarely makes a difference, most people want to go 40-45mph and become visibly irate at anything less than that. Things like that make me happy that self driving cars are somewhere on the horizon.

pc86 11y ago

This seems like it would be harder. Would you have to lock onto the tires to catch a certain number of frames without movement? I would thinking rolling through a stop sign (especially at an intersection that is not a 4-way stop) would be much more dangerous than going 30 in a 25.

edwhitesell 11y ago
> I would thinking rolling through a stop sign (especially at an intersection that is not a 4-way stop) would be much more dangerous than going 30 in a 25. This is exactly the scenario I have outside of my house. The speed limit on both streets is 25mph, but when most people don't stop at the stop signs and everyone is going too fast... The issue is even worse at certain times of the year (right now) because, depending on the direction you are going, the cars with no stop signs are mostly blinded by the position of the sun between trees and houses. Just last Monday a neighbor stopped by to say he turned the corner and side-swiped my mailbox because he couldn't see anything.

brazzledazzle 11y ago

There's a stop sign near my house that is often ignored and when I watch people blow through it (while obviously speeding) I wonder how much fear for letting our children wander is reinforced by behavior like that and how a lack of children playing reinforces that behavior. As far as speeding goes, I generally stick to the limit in a residential but when I'm being tailgated I'll speed up to 30mph. I'd rather only have to worry about stopping the force of my vehicle if a child runs out in front of my car. But it rarely makes a difference, most people want to go 40-45mph and become visibly irate at anything less than that. Things like that make me happy that self driving cars are somewhere on the horizon.