How Much Truth Is There to Those ‘Speed Enforced by Aircraft’ Signs?

Bay Curious

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4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We've all seen the signs warning us of eyes in the sky looking for speeders. A Bay Curious listener wanted to find out if someone really was up there ready to hand out tickets. Reported by Kelly Dunleavy O'Mara. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED. If there is one road that listener Aaron Perry Zucker has become familiar with, it's Interstate 5.
0:09.0	Or as Southern Californians call it, the five.
0:14.2	He grew up in LA, but now lives in San Francisco,
0:16.7	so he's on the road pretty often.
0:19.2	Along the way, he sees these signs
0:21.8	that in big black letters read
0:24.0	speed limit enforced by aircraft.
0:27.0	Signs like these are all over California's highways.
0:29.0	If you drive around a lot, you've probably seen them.
0:32.0	And if you're anything like Aaron, they might have you
0:34.8	wondering. Are these things for real?
0:37.4	Are we paying somebody to be flying over the roads the whole time?
0:41.8	It seemed either like some really complicated system that I
0:44.7	couldn't believe existed or some sort of you know security theater signs make people obey
0:50.2	the law better even if they don't really make sense.
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