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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

261 points david927 | 1 comments | 23 Feb 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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mavamaarten ◴[24 Feb 25 07:09 UTC] No.43156614[source]▶
I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera.

I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings.

I have a doorbell camera, and by analysing the footage using OpenCV and some code, I can track how fast people drive if you see how fast they move between two known points.

Average speed: 46 km/h :(

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01jonny01 ◴[24 Feb 25 08:29 UTC] No.43157069[source]▶
I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the government to intervene.
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onethought ◴[24 Feb 25 08:46 UTC] No.43157182[source]▶
Said someone living in a comfortable country with a stable government.

You can’t seriously believe this right?

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01jonny01 ◴[24 Feb 25 09:58 UTC] No.43157714{3}[source]▶
There is optimum level of state intervention. IMO monitoring people with cameras for speeding is a step too far.

I bet you are the same type of person who values software privacy haha

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1. onethought ◴[24 Feb 25 18:17 UTC] No.43162883{4}[source]▶
As others have pointed out, you are essentially advocating for non-enforcement of speed limits.

Which feels an arbitrary line to draw. What about other road rules? Driving on the right side? Using unregistered vehicles?

Countries like India, China and South East Asia, have much less enforcement of these rules… Would you call their driving experience optimal?

Not sure what you mean by values software privacy. I don’t really have a view on it? So no, I don’t think I am.