Date:         Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:33:33 -0700
Reply-To:     David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: MPG
Comments: To: Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com>
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--- Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com> wrote:

> David, if the sign is on all the time.
> If you could be awake at 3-4 am, and drive past at a speedo indicated
> 60mph, and see what the sign tells you. :)
> It would be better at 100mph, but I don't think the van can get that fast. :D
>
> Sudhir

Unfortunately it is not on all the time. It is turned on during school traffic
hours, when children are in the street. It is set up to remind people to slow
down to 25 mph. However, it stays on for quite a while. It is turned on before
kids are out and people simply zoom, zoom... through when there are no kids.

The sign is about 300 yards beyond an intersection. People tend to speed through
it. The sign will show numbers above 50 from time to time. I know a fact that
there is such a sign there but no cops. The sign is pretty much used as a speed
calibration tool as a result. I know when it says 41 my speedometer will indeed
show slightly above 40. Quite accurate around 40. The number will appear before
you pass it. It wants you to see your speed. It has to show it before passing it.
It is a semi permanent installation hung on a post on the side of the street.

David






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