Two-and-a-half years ago we published a guide on how to hack electronic road signs. Now America finds itself drowning in a sea of zombie warnings – and we’ve become the unofficial whipping boy of the highway Lite-brite hacking community. [Jalopnik]
Two-and-a-half years ago we published a guide on how to hack electronic road signs. Now America finds itself drowning in a sea of zombie warnings – and we’ve become the unofficial whipping boy of the highway Lite-brite hacking community. [Jalopnik]
Nodeity
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 9:46 AM“Two-and-a-half years ago we published a guide on how to hack electronic road signs”
Yeah, and when it was published you copt a flogging for being irresponsible. So why do it again…? The signs are there for public safety, not for dick heads to play with…
chris
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 10:03 PMsook it up why dont ya
Nodeity
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 11:15 AMOk, but when a member of your family gets hurt or killed, because some F’wit changed the sign for kicks … ‘Sook it up why dont ya”
Fesk
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 1:48 PMLets be honest, all of these signs state the bleeding obvious anyway. If you can’t drive without the aid of stupid signs then you probably shouldn’t be on the road anyway.
IMO seeing signs that have been hacked bring a breath of fresh air into an otherwise dull and far too serious world.
The Joker
Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 8:00 AMMaybe if the dick heads controlling them kept the message useful and up to date, people might take them more seriously.
ZS
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 9:09 AM-1 to sign hackers.
Back when the M5 to Hume Highway link was being upgraded (Sydney), there was an electronic sign that asked you to slow down from 110 to 80, 20 seconds before 3 lanes converge into 2.
God help you if you didn’t see the sign or if the sign was hacked. You’d be dead.