{"id":9263,"date":"2025-06-22T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2025-06-22T21:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T21:29:37","slug":"what-you-should-do-when-you-see-black-cables-on-the-road-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"What You Should Do When You See Black Cables on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3464.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3464.jpeg 526w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3464-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day, while driving to get groceries, I rolled over a pair of black rubber cables stretched across the road\u2014the kind you barely notice as they make a soft thunk-thunk under your tires. My sister, riding with me, suddenly asked, \u201cWhat are those for?\u201d I had no idea.<br>Later, I Googled it\u2014yogurt spoon still in hand\u2014and found out they\u2019re called pneumatic tubes. Their job? Counting cars. When a vehicle passes over, the pressure sends a puff of air to a sensor that logs it. One tube simply counts cars; two can measure speed, direction, and even vehicle type. This data isn\u2019t just collected for fun\u2014it\u2019s used by city planners to make real decisions: where to place stop signs, adjust traffic lights, or add turn lanes.It helps identify speeding hotspots and even shapes public transit and snowplow schedules<br>What amazed me most is how quietly it all happens. These tubes don\u2019t flash or beep; they just sit there, quietly shaping our roads<br>Now, whenever I spot them\u2014usually right before something changes\u2014I see them for what they are: silent but essential tools helping make our daily drives a little smarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, while driving to get groceries, I rolled over a pair of black rubber cables stretched across the road\u2014the kind you barely notice as they&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9265,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}