I don’t know what’s worse – that someone forgot to stick in a memory card, or that this sign has been displaying the words “Insert Memory Card” for at least two full days.
Saw it yesterday and took a cruddy iPhone snap then saw it again on my way to work this morning and told Nick he better get down there. It’s fixed now though. I’ll credit that to Giz.
No, there was one down here in Vic outside my work a year ago which had that message (took a pic that is somewhere). Very tempting to grab a memory card & mess with the display message ;)
Not only memory cards…Either there are different versions or multiple ways to feed data to them…I drove past one on the Hume Highway a few months back that said “Carrier lost” or something similar so some are running off GPRS or similar. :)
I don’t know what’s worse – that someone forgot to stick in a memory card, or that this sign has been displaying the words “Insert Memory Card” for at least two full days.
Damo
September 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM
RTA FTW! Gold. Except that my taxes are paying for this incompetence…
Report PermalinkElly Hart
September 10, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Wow, major fail. Where did you take this photo?
Report PermalinkStumpster
September 10, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Taken outside the RTA building in Woolloomooloo on Cathedral St.
Here: http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&ll=-33.872714,151.217811&spn=0.001929,0.002704&t=h&z=19
Report PermalinkDamo
September 10, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Saw it yesterday and took a cruddy iPhone snap then saw it again on my way to work this morning and told Nick he better get down there. It’s fixed now though. I’ll credit that to Giz.
Report PermalinkDeez
September 10, 2009 at 4:14 PM
They run off memory cards!?!?
Report PermalinkMatt-o
September 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I’m pretty certain its a http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/01/hacking_road_signs_is_frightningly_easy_and_funny_and_illegal-2/ copycat…
Report PermalinkJulien
September 10, 2009 at 5:47 PM
lol someone has reprogrammed it, they don’t have that error message – well the ones we have don’t
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September 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM
No, there was one down here in Vic outside my work a year ago which had that message (took a pic that is somewhere). Very tempting to grab a memory card & mess with the display message ;)
Report PermalinkTim
September 11, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Deez – “They run off memory cards!?!?”
Not only memory cards…Either there are different versions or multiple ways to feed data to them…I drove past one on the Hume Highway a few months back that said “Carrier lost” or something similar so some are running off GPRS or similar. :)
Report PermalinkDr_Stef
September 11, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Hah, looks like someone has been naughty again
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