200 MPH on the toll road

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

I heard they were planning to do this. Pretty cool stuff. I would have loved driving the car.

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/see-souped-corvette-stingray-hit-200-mph-texas-160107437.html

goofyboy · Posted: Dec 19, 2013 12:18 pm Post subject:

That started right next to my old house / neighborhood. Been waiting 4 long years for that stretch to be opened. Now it will be a breeze to get from I-10 to HWY 290 on the West side of Houston.

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Is that going to be a new path that a lot of people will take? I notice it is only 2 lanes in each direction.

By the way, the toll tag got read and a license plate image correctly taken at 200 mph...gotta love technology.

churchy · Posted: Dec 19, 2013 1:49 pm Post subject:

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

churchy, I'm sure there is. Is the stuff you're working on video frame capture related or more OCR related?

churchy · Posted: Dec 19, 2013 3:45 pm Post subject:

All of the above... we make a lot of the imager die in today's cell phones, tablets, etc. I have been involved in a lot of other really cool projects as well (most I can't get into). We did build a 50 gig imager (not meg) for the DOD. They flew it over Duke University in a drone. It allowed you to take an image of a very large area, and zoom into any region of interest. In one example, you could clearly read the menu in a restaurant window.

flixmaster · Site Owner Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 7488

Is that the 130 toll? I wish I had a car that would do 200 on the 130. Because I cruise home at 100 on that toll road all the time.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

goofyboy · Posted: Dec 20, 2013 5:29 am Post subject:

Okie - Exxon just built a new facility in the Woodlands, which is an hour due north of Houston. It will house 8000 employees. Many Exxon people live in Katy / Richmond area that need a quick way to get from Katy to the Woodlands. The full completion of the toll road will take them to 1 mile away from the new Exxon building. This area that was just opened is a small portion of the full loop. Houston will have 3 loops by the time this one is finished.

BrentC5Z · Posted: Dec 25, 2013 9:48 am Post subject: