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> New timing system for AutoX, Help us with the "Home Depot Test"
Randal
post Nov 8 2004, 11:40 PM
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We are working to figure out a new timing system for use at AutoX based upon scanners reading a 5X5" (or larger) bar code stuck to the side of the car.

Please try this test and tell me what happens.

Next time your at Home Depot use the self check out line. When you scan your items move them just as fast as you can left to right.

Please post the result.

I was surprise how it worked.

Thanks.

PS I don't have the pricing yet, but the scanners we are looking at work up to 15 feet away, so that should work for an AutoX course.
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post Nov 8 2004, 11:56 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) I'm picturing all the 914s grinding between reverse and first trying to get their damn cars to scan. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

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post Nov 8 2004, 11:58 PM
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Same thing used for gate security around here.... I mean besides the gate dood with a sawed off... what's that... telephone..

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post Nov 8 2004, 11:59 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Would it also price the car too?
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post Nov 8 2004, 11:59 PM
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Jen,

Actually somehow I can't imagine you at Home Depot, and Nordstrom's doesn't do self check out, so where do we send you?
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post Nov 9 2004, 12:03 AM
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we have a bridge around baltimore md that uses this system but i have not so i dont know how fast you can go

good luck
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post Nov 9 2004, 12:08 AM
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I've been to Home Depot approximately 100 times more than I have Nordstroms. I think they actually charge you for just looking at their stuff in Nordstrom. I can't afford it, and I'm glad. I like the smell of the lumber section @ Home Depot best. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

And yes, I have used the self check service. Don't remember how hard it was. They also have those self check stations at most Albertsons, IIRC.

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post Nov 9 2004, 12:10 AM
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I can see it now, instead of licence plates, you will get bar codes to go on your roof (trunk if it's a convertable) and the scanners will bill you for speeding....... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif)
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post Nov 9 2004, 12:14 AM
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QUOTE(GWN7 @ Nov 8 2004, 10:10 PM)
I can see it now, instead of licence plates, you will get bar codes to go on your roof (trunk if it's a convertable) and the scanners will bill you for speeding....... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif)



F1 does the scanning from bridges over the course, also has various places around the course where splits can be registered, so they can get you now or later.
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post Nov 9 2004, 12:16 AM
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heh... already happens...

Anyone remember when they first started taking pictures of speeders in Orlando... made a big stink..

I saw a funny guy on TV, said he was on vacation, drove I-4 thru O-town to Tampa, and got a picture in the mail of him speeding passed OBT, and it said for him to send $187.00, so he sent them a picture of $187.00.

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post Nov 9 2004, 12:20 AM
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having little bar codes on the side of our cars would look pretty cool. much better than shoe polish on the windshield!!!

Price check, '74 914
What? $2995??

self checkout at Home Depot sucks! I did it once and it took me 10 minutes to check out 3 items. Maybe I'm just stupid (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Nov 9 2004, 12:22 AM
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QUOTE(kermit @ Nov 8 2004, 10:20 PM)
self checkout at Home Depot sucks! I did it once and it took me 10 minutes to check out 3 items. Maybe I'm just stupid (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

I think it's the payment part that takes the longest. I kept trying to give it money before it was ready to accept it.

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post Nov 9 2004, 12:26 AM
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The part that I really can't shake is that in my mind, it's MikeZ trying to get his car to scan, and I wish you could watch it in my head..

Really.


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post Nov 9 2004, 12:26 AM
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[/QUOTE]having little bar codes on the side of our cars would look pretty cool. much better than shoe polish on the windshield!!![QUOTE]

Right, especially those huge ones that Demick puts on the windshield! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

But Howard, try the Home Depot test and run it across the scanner as fast as you can and tell me what happens.
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post Nov 9 2004, 12:32 AM
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QUOTE(Jenny @ Nov 8 2004, 09:56 PM)
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) I'm picturing all the 914s grinding between reverse and first trying to get their damn cars to scan. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

LMFAO Jenny!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif)


i f-ing (see miles, it's easy) hate self checkout. so damn frustrating trying to put a large item in the bag so it will weigh it and let you continue.
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post Nov 9 2004, 12:54 AM
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the trick to the HD scanners is the scanner is a scale if you put the item on the scale as you scan it it preweighs it, instead of guessing its weight
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post Nov 9 2004, 12:54 AM
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QUOTE(Randal @ Nov 8 2004, 10:26 PM)
having little bar codes on the side of our cars would look pretty cool. much better than shoe polish on the windshield!!!
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Right, especially those huge ones that Demick puts on the windshield!  :lol:

But Howard, try the Home Depot test and run it across the scanner as fast as you can and tell me what happens.

ok randal, I'll go to Home Depot and give it another shot. Time to stock up on grade 8 hardware, the goldish colored zinc coating is the best!!!!

how about I duct tape some Home Depot merchandise on the side of Kermit and drive as fast as I can throught the checkout? See what kind of bill I end up with - or lawsuit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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QUOTE(kermit @ Nov 8 2004, 10:54 PM)
how about I duct tape some Home Depot merchandise on the side of Kermit and drive as fast as I can throught the checkout?

Or some nice 2X4s tied to the side! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol2.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol2.gif)

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post Nov 9 2004, 02:04 AM
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Maybe with the right bar code you could take 20 mph off the reading of a laser speed gun (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Nov 9 2004, 08:23 AM
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Randal,
Wouldn't a FAST TRAC type system (like they use on the bridges) work better. They don't depend on visual.
I know nothing about costs of one system vs the other.
We could even bill people per run. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
Now that I thing of it they would not trigger at a precise location. Never mind. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

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