John Kuehl discuss how the county s new speed detector display can download driving data into a computer for analysis.
Police can then determine where in the county people are speeding the most.
Writer A man driving through the Heritage Valley subdivision spotted a machine on the roadside that was measuring his speed and displaying it in big, illuminated red numbers. The man's speed dropped from 35 down to the speed limit of 30 once he saw the device Wednesday morning. Porter County Sheriff's Department officer Bill Young, who parked down the road from the machine for a half hour, said he didn't notice a lot of speeding along the normally speeder-heavy road. The machine was purchased by the Sheriff's Department in an attempt to remind people of their speeds and get them to slow down. The machine is on a trailer, and can be towed to various problem areas throughout the county.