I bet someone here reading this is very proud of their work on such a large scale system.
Border Patrol is monitoring drivers, detaining those with 'suspicious' patterns
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#13This has been going on for at least 15 years. But it is a wider scale than just the Border patrol. Police agencies monitoring cameras and working with other agencies to notify in advance of people coming through. Flagged plates are pulled over. IIRC, "Desert snow" was part of this. [1]
I suppose the new thing now is the bandwidth and tech to watch more cars. Local police forces and cities are purchasing more readers and installing them on cars and around town in certain bottlenecks. In my town there has been a bit of an uproar...but about 25 years too late (my area started this after 9/11).
Certain highways have always been worse than others though. Back in 2013 I was working with Trinitylabs in Portland developing 3d printers (For those of you in Ruby on rails this was Ezmobius' company). After working for a week doing 15hr days getting 3d printers assembled I was driving home along the Columbia river gorge but I was on the highway on the Washington side. I was pulled over in the middle of nowhere at ~10pm for going 8mph over the limit. After a bit of talking and letting him know what I was doing..including a 20min conversation about 3d printing on the side of the highway in literally the middle of nowhere [2] the officer tells me "I only pulled you over because you are on a known drug running highway...and you are driving an Audi which is a known drug runner car."
At least he was honest :)
[1] https://www.engadget.com/2014-09-09-police-seizure-black-asp...
[2] We were so far out that he his radio wouldn't work to contact his dispatch...he had to use a cellphone :)
Re: Border Patrol is monitoring drivers, detaining those with 'suspicious' patterns
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
>you will get pulled over just speed anyway If this is in Texas, absolutely. Doing 75 in an 80 is suspicious AF . A few decades ago I did contracting work on Texas military bases; I would always smoke a pre-rolled blunt between the border bases and inland-checkpoints. To the chagrin of drug dogs just looking for people to harass (surprisingly: rarely me). >don’t ride dirty We were always taught to only break one law…
>If this is in Texas, absolutely. Doing 75 in an 80 is suspicious AF. Oh, please. Half the damn signage in Texas hasn't been updated from 75, and if you weren't a Texas resident to read when the State updated the daytime speed limit to 80 in the newspapers, you wouldn't know that signs notwithstanding, 80 is the speed you should be going in the day. If you're just passing through the state, speed limit signs on parts…
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>you will get pulled over just speed anyway If this is in Texas, absolutely. Doing 75 in an 80 is suspicious AF . A few decades ago I did contracting work on Texas military bases; I would always smoke a pre-rolled blunt between the border bases and inland-checkpoints. To the chagrin of drug dogs just looking for people to harass (surprisingly: rarely me). >don’t ride dirty We were always taught to only break one law…
>If this is in Texas, absolutely. Doing 75 in an 80 is suspicious AF. Oh, please. Half the damn signage in Texas hasn't been updated from 75, and if you weren't a Texas resident to read when the State updated the daytime speed limit to 80 in the newspapers, you wouldn't know that signs notwithstanding, 80 is the speed you should be going in the day. If you're just passing through the state, speed limit signs on parts…
I grew up in Texas, but only visit from out-of-state, for the past couple decades.
I remember when the national speed limit of 55mph was removed, and Texas raised the speed limit to 65, then 75; but also created a night time speed limit that was still stupid slow. Not too long ago, a toll road now has 85mph (with 99mph tolerated, if uncongested).
Didn't realize so much old signage still existed, but from the looks of most Southern state infrastructure... we probably can't raise the speed limits too much more due to potholes, alone (but really outside of cities should be like Montana was, decades ago "drive prudently").
Still waiting for the first state that implements an "enhanced drivers license credential," which would be en external emblem showing the driver was more-skilled // better-insured and therefore legally able to drive faster.