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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: February 26, 2003 Fake Police Cars -- "Ukranian traffic police have decided to use imitation as a method of preventing speeding and hope to reduce the number of car accidents."
Reader Comments...
This is an old idea. One can find them all over Japan. They've had them for decades. Most of them buried in creeping roadside weeds... Problem with this idea is that the imitations are a high maintenance, to be effective to far sighted driver like myself, they would have to change the imitations frequently, at least every few years or so, to keep up with the police car model changes...
In Canada, we have fake policeman in real car. I mean, that's what I think of the last one who gave me a ticket... :) Posted by: Richard Lehoux on February 27, 2003 02:36 PM
In the UK they put boards, painted in the fluorescent colours seen on the sign of a police car, on motorway flyovers. From a distance (and at 90mph!) they look real enough to slow the traffic down. To tie this in with the web, one could say that as long as the front end of the site looked like it had a clever back-end, then it could have quite a basic, manually driven back-end. I worked for a company that took credit card payments over the web. It looked like a proper e-commerce solution but in reality, the credit card details were sent via a secure email to a lady downstairs who manually entered them into a card payment machine. They still do that now I believe. So, as long as it looks like the real thing, and it works, we're all happy right?
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