New Yorkers get spooky LED skeleton reminder to obey speed limits
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/" rel="tag">Etc.</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/" rel="tag">Government/Legal</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/safety/" rel="tag">Safety</a></p><img alt="Skeleton Speed Board" class="right border" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/05/skeleton-speed-board-250.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; margin: 4px; float: right;" />Drivers in <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/new york city">New York City</a> can expect to be met with a new reminder of the local 30-mile-per-hour speed limit this summer. According to <em>The New York Times</em>, the Big Apple's transportation department will unveil a speed board that will flash a custom skeleton animation toward drivers who are over the limit. You've likely seen the technology employed before with slightly less morbid effects.<br />
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Municipalities routinely use mobile, radar-based speed boards to make drivers aware of just how fast they're traveling in low-speed zones. Typically, the onboard LED screen simply flashes an offending vehicle's speed in big red numerals. NYC is taking it one step further.<br />
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The transportation department already employs skeletons in its "That's why its 30" advertising campaign, which underscores just how much more lethal a vehicle traveling 40 mph can be over its slower counterpart. The new speed boards are intentionally attention-grabbing, though since traffic slugs along at an average of 9.3 mph in most parts of the city, we don't think anyone will have a hard time obeying the law.<p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/13/new-yorkers-get-spooky-led-skeleton-reminder-to-obey-speed-limit/">New Yorkers get spooky LED skeleton reminder to obey speed limits</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Fri, 13 May 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/13/new-yorkers-get-spooky-led-skeleton-reminder-to-obey-speed-limit/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19940073/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/13/new-yorkers-get-spooky-led-skeleton-reminder-to-obey-speed-limit/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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