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Donger
02-24-2010, 05:11 PM
During my last trip to California, I noticed that there is some kind of detector (I think) about every mile on the highways. I've searched for a picture of what I'm talking/asking about, but can't find one. Each location seems to be identical, and includes a solar package and a white box thing that is pointing down toward the road. And, no, the white box does not appear to be a camera.

Californian CP'ers, have you seen these and do you know what they are, please?

Thanks.

L.A. Chieffan
02-24-2010, 05:12 PM
u talking about a callbox?

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:13 PM
u talking about a callbox?

No.

Bugeater
02-24-2010, 05:13 PM
Mind control devices.

Buck
02-24-2010, 05:13 PM
Not sure what you are talking about. Can you go more in detail?

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:14 PM
Not sure what you are talking about. Can you go more in detail?

Other than the white box thing pointing at the roadway and a solar package, there really isn't much else to add. Both are on free-standing poles, however.

Reaper16
02-24-2010, 05:14 PM
u talking about a callbox?
That was my first guess and I've not been on a CA highway in some time.

L.A. Chieffan
02-24-2010, 05:15 PM
a camera? some intersections have cameras

Mr. Flopnuts
02-24-2010, 05:15 PM
I saw them driving through N. California and I have no idea what they were.

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:16 PM
a camera? some intersections have cameras

These aren't cameras. And, they are on the interstates (about every mile) not intersections.

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:16 PM
I saw them driving through N. California and I have no idea what they were.

I have a pretty good guess what they are, but I'm looking for confirmation.

L.A. Chieffan
02-24-2010, 05:17 PM
I have a pretty good guess what they are, but I'm looking for confirmation.

do tell donger

Buck
02-24-2010, 05:17 PM
I'll pay attention tonight when I'm driving home, but they may not have them in SD County.

How big is the box thats pointing towards the road?

kstater
02-24-2010, 05:19 PM
http://www.tc.gc.ca/innovation/tdc/projects/images/its/its04.jpg

Buck
02-24-2010, 05:19 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/60/IMG_1238.jpg/220px-IMG_1238.jpg

This?

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:20 PM
do tell donger

Either some kind of speed/traffic sensor, or a sniffer.

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:20 PM
I'll pay attention tonight when I'm driving home, but they may not have them in SD County.

How big is the box thats pointing towards the road?

About the size of a shoebox. Oh, and they are installed on I-5.

Goldmember
02-24-2010, 05:21 PM
a reefer humidor

or VCR for the camera

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:21 PM
http://www.tc.gc.ca/innovation/tdc/projects/images/its/its04.jpg

No, that isn't it.

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:22 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/60/IMG_1238.jpg/220px-IMG_1238.jpg

This?

:spock:

Buck
02-24-2010, 05:23 PM
About the size of a shoebox. Oh, and they are installed on I-5.

Ok, do you know if its the I-5 north or south and in what area of town?

I may take the I-5 home tonight if traffic isn't too bad. I travel south from Sorrento Valley until the I-8.

The Franchise
02-24-2010, 05:23 PM
We Californians are requred to stop everytime we see one.....and deposit $5 in the box. California is broke......you didn't hear?

L.A. Chieffan
02-24-2010, 05:23 PM
Knowing Donger, at first I thought he was referring to this:

Hog's Gone Fishin
02-24-2010, 05:23 PM
Thats a mile marker.

Hog's Gone Fishin
02-24-2010, 05:24 PM
http://www.calsafe.org/info.html

rockymtnchief
02-24-2010, 05:24 PM
Montana real estate boxes. :#Go back and burn them all! :D

DaFace
02-24-2010, 05:25 PM
Google StreetView should be able to find one pretty easily if you're pretty sure you know the general location.

ModSocks
02-24-2010, 05:27 PM
I know what you're talking about, i think. But i have no idea what they are either. Is the white box angled at the front and have a piece of plexi-glass in it?

Hog's Gone Fishin
02-24-2010, 05:27 PM
They wouldn't be for semen collection would they. Did you see them close to San Fran ?

Rain Man
02-24-2010, 05:28 PM
Is this it? If so, it's a post office delivery truck.

http://www.hybridmile.com/files/2009/07/usps-resized.jpg

philfree
02-24-2010, 05:30 PM
Don't they put micro chips in freight and little boxes are positioned over the highway and they read chips in the freight as a method of checking the load that's being carried?

PhilFree:arrow:

RJ
02-24-2010, 05:31 PM
M R ducks

Buck
02-24-2010, 05:31 PM
Maybe they are chargers for Electric vehicles.

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:31 PM
Ok, do you know if its the I-5 north or south and in what area of town?

I may take the I-5 home tonight if traffic isn't too bad. I travel south from Sorrento Valley until the I-8.

I first noticed them on I-5 heading north toward Carlsbad about two years ago.

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:32 PM
Google StreetView should be able to find one pretty easily if you're pretty sure you know the general location.

Yeah, I'm looking right now.

kstater
02-24-2010, 05:33 PM
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1130/94754761.png

Buck
02-24-2010, 05:37 PM
http://www.pe.com/columns/on_the_road/stories/PE_News_Local_S_traffic09.4323bd2.html

What are those poles alongside the freeways?

10:00 PM PST on Sunday, November 8, 2009

Special to The Press-Enterprise

Q: Redlands resident Nelda M. Stuck e-mailed to ask about the mysterious poles along the freeway that appear to prop up solar panels.

"There seems to be nothing at the top of the pole -- no camera, for example -- just a small cap to the pole," Stuck wrote. What are these poles for?

A: The poles do in fact support solar panels, which power traffic-monitoring devices, said Shelli Lombardo, public information officer for Caltrans' eighth district.

The poles Stuck noticed are likely part of a network Caltrans began putting up in August 2008 along Interstate 15 and Interstate 215 in Riverside County and Interstate 210, Highway 91 and Interstate 10 in San Bernardino County, she said.

The poles link to sensors embedded in the roadway that "keep track of the flow of traffic," Lombardo said. Data about the number of vehicles on the freeway, their speeds and whether a wreck has occurred can be transmitted from the sensors to a new traffic-management center Caltrans will run in Fontana.

As of late October, the center was under construction, but the equipment was already installed, Lombardo said. Shorter poles were mounted along I-15 and I-215 in the Temecula-Murrieta area, Lombardo added.

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Funny, I was talking about traffic on the 5, I find out about traffic using www.511sd.org

It looks like those poles help monitor traffic.

Donger
02-24-2010, 05:39 PM
No, that's not it, Buck.

DaFace
02-24-2010, 05:41 PM
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1130/94754761.png

You can link to streetview using the little "link" button in the corner, fwiw.

Hog's Gone Fishin
02-24-2010, 05:42 PM
I'll bet they just support solar panels for traffic monitoring devices. I could be wrong.

kstater
02-24-2010, 05:44 PM
N/Mhttp://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/%3Ciframe%20width=%22562%22%20height=%22314%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20marginhe ight=%220%22%20marginwidth=%220%22%20src=%22http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=32.992548,-117.255916&panoid=nitKYc3M9ev1lEXiRMXCOw&cbp=13,64.97,,0,-22.87&ll=32.992431,-117.255903&spn=0,359.998493&z=19&source=embed&output=svembed%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Csmall%3E%3Ca%20href=%22http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=32.992548,-117.255916&panoid=nitKYc3M9ev1lEXiRMXCOw&cbp=13,64.97,,0,-22.87&ll=32.992431,-117.255903&spn=0,359.998493&z=19&source=embed%22%20style=%22color:#0000FF;text-align:left%22%3EView%20Larger%20Map%3C/a%3E%3C/small%3Ehttp://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=32.992431,-117.255903&spn=0,359.997358&z=19&layer=c&cbll=32.992548,-117.255916&panoid=nitKYc3M9ev1lEXiRMXCOw&cbp=12,64.97,,0,-22.87

Rain Man
02-24-2010, 05:45 PM
Can you draw us a picture in MS Paint?

kstater
02-24-2010, 05:46 PM
<iframe width="562" height="314" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=32.992548,-117.255916&amp;panoid=nitKYc3M9ev1lEXiRMXCOw&amp;cbp=13,64.97,,0,-22.87&amp;ll=32.992431,-117.255903&amp;spn=0,359.998493&amp;z=19&amp;source=embed&amp;output=svembed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=32.992548,-117.255916&amp;panoid=nitKYc3M9ev1lEXiRMXCOw&amp;cbp=13,64.97,,0,-22.87&amp;ll=32.992431,-117.255903&amp;spn=0,359.998493&amp;z=19&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

Otter
02-24-2010, 05:53 PM
Is this it? If so, it's a post office delivery truck.

http://www.hybridmile.com/files/2009/07/usps-resized.jpg

They've gotten to Rain Man.

NOTE TO THE RESISTANCE: Rain Man can no longer be trusted.

ModSocks
02-24-2010, 05:56 PM
Im pretty sure they're traffic cams. The traffic cams are solar powered, in a white box.

ModSocks
02-24-2010, 05:57 PM
This isn't what i was thinking of, but maybe it's what your referring to?

http://www.image-acquire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/trafficcamera2500.jpg

ModSocks
02-24-2010, 05:59 PM
Maybe something like this?

http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050130/images/1.30acamera.jpg

Buck
02-24-2010, 06:04 PM
They dont have those on the freeways Detox.

ModSocks
02-24-2010, 06:09 PM
They dont have those on the freeways Detox.

Ahem:

http://www.video.dot.ca.gov/

Scroll to the bottom. Doubt it's what he's talking about though.

ModSocks
02-24-2010, 06:11 PM
I think I know what's he's talking about, but i can't find it though

Donger
02-24-2010, 06:11 PM
No, they aren't cameras.

Buck
02-24-2010, 06:11 PM
Ahem:

http://www.video.dot.ca.gov/

Scroll to the bottom. Doubt it's what he's talking about though.

Good point, but the ones you posted look like the red light Cams.

ModSocks
02-24-2010, 06:13 PM
No, they aren't cameras.

How do you know? I thought you didn't know what they were....j/k...kinda

ModSocks
02-24-2010, 06:13 PM
Good point, but the ones you posted look like the red light Cams.

Im just throwing shit to see if it sticks

Buck
02-24-2010, 06:15 PM
I'm pretty sure they are the traffic sensors, but Donger is being too stubborn.

MagicHef
02-24-2010, 06:17 PM
This is in CO, but do they look somewhat like this?

<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+collins+co&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Fort+Collins,+Larimer,+Colorado&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=E8CFS6zkApTwM7vJmfkL&amp;ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&amp;ll =40.58526,-105.084423&amp;spn=0.001675,0.003385&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=40.555596,-105.000347&amp;panoid=px16xKgRhr1mK2LJQB2ELQ&amp;cbp=12,358.93,,0,-8.69&amp;source=embed&amp;output=svembed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+collins+co&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Fort+Collins,+Larimer,+Colorado&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=E8CFS6zkApTwM7vJmfkL&amp;ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&amp;ll =40.58526,-105.084423&amp;spn=0.001675,0.003385&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=40.555596,-105.000347&amp;panoid=px16xKgRhr1mK2LJQB2ELQ&amp;cbp=12,358.93,,0,-8.69&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

Buck
02-24-2010, 06:19 PM
This is in CO, but do they look somewhat like this?

<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+collins+co&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Fort+Collins,+Larimer,+Colorado&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=E8CFS6zkApTwM7vJmfkL&amp;ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&amp;ll =40.58526,-105.084423&amp;spn=0.001675,0.003385&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=40.555596,-105.000347&amp;panoid=px16xKgRhr1mK2LJQB2ELQ&amp;cbp=12,358.93,,0,-8.69&amp;source=embed&amp;output=svembed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+collins+co&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Fort+Collins,+Larimer,+Colorado&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=E8CFS6zkApTwM7vJmfkL&amp;ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&amp;ll =40.58526,-105.084423&amp;spn=0.001675,0.003385&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=40.555596,-105.000347&amp;panoid=px16xKgRhr1mK2LJQB2ELQ&amp;cbp=12,358.93,,0,-8.69&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

We don't have anything that looks remotely like that.

Donger
02-24-2010, 06:57 PM
How do you know? I thought you didn't know what they were....j/k...kinda

Because I know what the Caltrans cameras look like.

Donger
02-24-2010, 06:58 PM
This is in CO, but do they look somewhat like this?

<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+collins+co&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Fort+Collins,+Larimer,+Colorado&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=E8CFS6zkApTwM7vJmfkL&amp;ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&amp;ll =40.58526,-105.084423&amp;spn=0.001675,0.003385&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=40.555596,-105.000347&amp;panoid=px16xKgRhr1mK2LJQB2ELQ&amp;cbp=12,358.93,,0,-8.69&amp;source=embed&amp;output=svembed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fort+collins+co&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Fort+Collins,+Larimer,+Colorado&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=E8CFS6zkApTwM7vJmfkL&amp;ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&amp;ll =40.58526,-105.084423&amp;spn=0.001675,0.003385&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=40.555596,-105.000347&amp;panoid=px16xKgRhr1mK2LJQB2ELQ&amp;cbp=12,358.93,,0,-8.69&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

No, the pole does not extend over the highway.

banyon
02-24-2010, 07:27 PM
Is this it? :

http://dc.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2964183317_c8d7cf9797.jpg

BIG_DADDY
02-24-2010, 07:54 PM
I am not sure what you saw but they may be call boxes. They have them on certain freeways and many bridges like the San Mateo bridge

Bugeater
02-24-2010, 07:57 PM
I'll bet they are speed sensors, check this web page out they give current traffic speeds all over the San Diego area.

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist11/d11tmc/sdmap/showmap.php

Reaper16
02-24-2010, 07:58 PM
This is a cruel experiment. Donger is making this whole thing up.

stlchiefs
02-24-2010, 07:59 PM
I think they got washed with some reds, but did the white things look like this?

http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2007/12/11/dui-chain-gang.jpg

googlegoogle
02-24-2010, 08:07 PM
All these devices are making people paranoid. (http://blog.sanpedropalisades.org/2010/01/29/coastal-commission-to-consider-verizon-proposals-on-february-11/)

Tits McGee
02-24-2010, 09:53 PM
Sounds like they are emergency call boxes, they call directly to an operator, once you are stranded on the freeway you are screwed.

BIG K
02-24-2010, 10:26 PM
Sounds like they are emergency call boxes, they call directly to an operator, once you are stranded on the freeway you are screwed.

I agree with tits. Without seeing a pic, the only things that sound similiar are call boxes.

DaFace
02-24-2010, 10:27 PM
I agree with tits. Without seeing a pic, the only things that sound similiar are call boxes.

Well...who doesn't agree with tits?

soundmind
02-24-2010, 10:47 PM
I would propose the Dongman sketches something out, scans and shares. Sometimes it's just easier to show than tell.

soundmind
02-24-2010, 10:49 PM
All these devices are making people paranoid. (http://blog.sanpedropalisades.org/2010/01/29/coastal-commission-to-consider-verizon-proposals-on-february-11/)

Basketball goals?

There goes the neighborhood. Next thing you know, basketball players are going to start showing up.

88TG88
02-24-2010, 11:15 PM
What a great thread.

Buck
02-25-2010, 10:59 AM
Ok I paid attention as I was driving home last night.

They have to be traffic sensors.

Also, they don't have "sniffers" on the highway, that would be too fucking expensive. Plus do you know how many people in CA would get caught if they had those?

Donger
02-25-2010, 11:38 AM
Ok I paid attention as I was driving home last night.

They have to be traffic sensors.

Also, they don't have "sniffers" on the highway, that would be too ****ing expensive. Plus do you know how many people in CA would get caught if they had those?

Did you stop and take a picture?

RJ
02-25-2010, 11:38 AM
What a great thread.


You have to admit that this is probably the best small white boxes alongside a California freeway thread ever.

Buck
02-25-2010, 11:41 AM
Did you stop and take a picture?

It was really dark outside.

Rausch
02-25-2010, 11:44 AM
Is this it? :

http://dc.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2964183317_c8d7cf9797.jpg

Holy $3it!

Phil has set up a solar powered device to clone himself!1!:eek:

Rausch
02-25-2010, 11:45 AM
You have to admit that this is probably the best small white boxes alongside a California freeway thread ever.

LMAO

Donger
02-25-2010, 11:46 AM
It was really dark outside.

Don't give me excuses. Give me solutions.

Buck
02-25-2010, 11:48 AM
Donger, for some reason, I always thought you lived in Poway, CA. Is this not the case?

Donger
02-25-2010, 11:49 AM
Donger, for some reason, I always thought you lived in Poway, CA. Is this not the case?

No, that is not the case.

Rain Man
02-25-2010, 11:54 AM
I bet we eventually find out that it was a bug smashed on the edge of donger's windshield and that he has poor depth perception.

Buck
02-25-2010, 11:55 AM
No, that is not the case.

BLAST!

I must be confusing you for someone else....maybe El Borracho.

Rain Man
02-25-2010, 11:59 AM
Did it look like the white spot in this photo, donger?

http://justinsomnia.org/images/cross-country-road-trip-long-flat-stretch-probably-in-arizona-with-bug-guts-on-windshield.jpg

Donger
02-25-2010, 11:59 AM
Did it look like the white spot in this photo, donger?

http://justinsomnia.org/images/cross-country-road-trip-long-flat-stretch-probably-in-arizona-with-bug-guts-on-windshield.jpg

No.

Rain Man
02-25-2010, 12:01 PM
No.

That doesn't rule out my theory. Maybe it was a different species.

Rausch
02-25-2010, 12:03 PM
Did it look like the white spot in this photo, donger?

http://justinsomnia.org/images/cross-country-road-trip-long-flat-stretch-probably-in-arizona-with-bug-guts-on-windshield.jpg

I love that pic.

Should be my avatar...

The Franchise
02-25-2010, 12:04 PM
Are you sure there not plug ins for electric cars?

RJ
02-25-2010, 12:06 PM
BLAST!

I must be confusing you for someone else....maybe El Borracho.



El Borracho is a New Mexican.

Rain Man
02-25-2010, 12:52 PM
I love that pic.

Should be my avatar...


I bet the person who took it wouldn't mind. Maybe. Eh, I don't know. I found it on some blog or something.

Rain Man
02-25-2010, 12:53 PM
El Borracho is a New Mexican.

I thought that was banyon. Or amnorix.

Donger
02-25-2010, 12:57 PM
That doesn't rule out my theory. Maybe it was a different species.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Donger
02-25-2010, 12:58 PM
Are the embedded Google maps in this thread giving anyone else issues?

Buck
02-25-2010, 12:59 PM
Yeah they are Donger.

L.A. Chieffan
02-25-2010, 12:59 PM
I find your lack of faith disturbing.

you should have said "disappointing" or something like that to send GC in a Star Wars geek OCD rant

Donger
02-25-2010, 01:01 PM
you should have said "disappointing" or something like that to send GC in a Star Wars geek OCD rant

No, I know better than to mess with a Yodda quote.

Bugeater
02-25-2010, 01:01 PM
Are the embedded Google maps in this thread giving anyone else issues?
Now that I am on a different page they aren't, and I gave you pinheads the answer to this earlier in the thread.

Donger
02-25-2010, 01:02 PM
Now that I am on a different page they aren't, and I gave you pinheads the answer to this earlier in the thread.

Where?

Bugeater
02-25-2010, 01:04 PM
Where?
Post #62.

Donger
02-25-2010, 01:07 PM
Post #62.

How do you know that the thing I'm asking about are the sensors that provide those speeds?

Bugeater
02-25-2010, 01:12 PM
How do you know that the thing I'm asking about are the sensors that provide those speeds?
I don't see anyone else coming up with a better explanation.

Donger
02-25-2010, 01:14 PM
I don't see anyone else coming up with a better explanation.

Well, if Buck would stop being lazy and go and take a picture, we could solve this mystery once and for all.

Earthling
02-25-2010, 01:17 PM
We Californians are requred to stop everytime we see one.....and deposit $5 in the box. California is broke......you didn't hear?

LMAO

L.A. Chieffan
02-25-2010, 01:18 PM
its all in your head donger. theres no way an object that prominent on a californian interstate hasnt been mentioned already in this thread.

The Franchise
02-25-2010, 01:19 PM
I don't see anyone else coming up with a better explanation.

Chargers for electric cars....

Buck
02-25-2010, 01:22 PM
Well, if Buck would stop being lazy and go and take a picture, we could solve this mystery once and for all.

Yeah, why dont I just pull over on the Interstate in Southern California, and get out of my car to take a picture.

I don't have a death wish.

Bugeater
02-25-2010, 01:22 PM
Chargers for electric cars....
Every mile or so? How many people in Cali actually drive electric cars anyway?

Sofa King
02-25-2010, 01:23 PM
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/449/mariash23gj.jpg



any chance this picture contains the white box in question?

Buck
02-25-2010, 01:24 PM
Every mile or so? How many people in Cali actually drive electric cars anyway?

I thought they might be chargers, but I really doubt it.

They are gosh-dern traffic sensors.

Donger
02-25-2010, 01:24 PM
Yeah, why dont I just pull over on the Interstate in Southern California, and get out of my car to take a picture.

I don't have a death wish.

Couldn't you find one on foot?

Bugeater
02-25-2010, 01:36 PM
Is this what you're talking about?

http://i49.tinypic.com/2n22rte.jpg

ModSocks
02-25-2010, 01:50 PM
Is this what you're talking about?

http://i49.tinypic.com/2n22rte.jpg

It seems like that Has to be it. I was looking for a pic of that. What the hell else could it be? We've posted everything else.

Donger
02-25-2010, 01:59 PM
Is this what you're talking about?

http://i49.tinypic.com/2n22rte.jpg

Yes, that's it!

Bugeater
02-25-2010, 02:02 PM
It has to be a speed sensor, I saw temporary ones on trailers at various places along the interstate here before they rebuilt it, and they were always located at areas that bottlenecked.

L.A. Chieffan
02-25-2010, 02:03 PM
what an anti-climax

ModSocks
02-25-2010, 02:08 PM
It is what we thought it was! And we let Donger off the hook!

Donger
02-25-2010, 02:13 PM
Wait a second. Hold on now. How do we know that it's a speed sensor?

Buck
02-25-2010, 02:15 PM
Wait a second. Hold on now. How do we know that it's a speed sensor?

We dont know 100%, but we do know that California has the built similar things to monitor traffic so they can post traffic updates, therefore making it the most likely answer.

ModSocks
02-25-2010, 02:19 PM
We dont know 100%, but we do know that California has the built similar things to monitor traffic so they can post traffic updates, therefore making it the most likely answer.

La Mesa Sucks!

Buck
02-25-2010, 02:20 PM
La Mesa Sucks!

Ok, Lakeside...

Pshhhh:LOL:

T-post Tom
02-25-2010, 02:23 PM
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/449/mariash23gj.jpg



any chance this picture contains the white box in question?

I'm really glad that it wasn't this. Because if the CALI highways were puncutated every mile by THOSE, then I'd have to pack up all my $hit and move to CALI.

Hog's Gone Fishin
02-25-2010, 02:40 PM
I think it has to do with homeland security and survellience of terrorist and their activities.

Pushead2
02-25-2010, 02:51 PM
this thread sucked.....

Bugeater
02-25-2010, 03:12 PM
Mystery solved:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_counter

ModSocks
02-25-2010, 03:20 PM
Ok, Lakeside...

Pshhhh:LOL:

Hey, I only work here in Hick-ville. There is even a liquor store near us with an old man in a rocking chair hanging out front. Bare foot. Never thought I'd see the day in SD

Donger
02-25-2010, 03:36 PM
Mystery solved:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_counter

:thumb:

Over-Head
02-25-2010, 05:47 PM
Always thought the best part of the "granola State" was seeing it in my mirrors as my Freightliner rolled across the Nevada line LMAO.
well that and the Raiders :thumb:

Over-Head
02-25-2010, 05:49 PM
Wait a second. Hold on now. How do we know that it's a speed sensor?
Yeah really, we ALL know everything in Cali revolves around Dane LMAO

Donger
02-25-2010, 06:01 PM
Always thought the best part of the "granola State" was seeing it in my mirrors as my Freightliner rolled across the Nevada line LMAO.
well that and the Raiders :thumb:

You used to drive over the Donner Pass in a truck? I've driven over it a few times in a rental car in the snow, and it was pretty hairy. And I'm speaking as a Coloradan.

listopencil
02-25-2010, 08:20 PM
No, you are all dumbasses. That's where we keep our pot.