I believe the electronic speed limit sign previously discussed displays your speed if you are driving over 25 MPH, and the limit if you're not. I think the sensor is about 0.5 blocks before the sign, maybe 20 meters or so from the corner. Its range seems to span a fair distance. Of course future study is required.
About the engineering drama. Let me bounce off episode ideas. First episode: upper management, along with marketing guy, pick a toy idea (DIY tie-dyed teddy bears?) based purely on data. Kids like teddy bears. Kids like colors. Kids like tie-dye and doing it themselves. Misguided product ala "Big". (Remember the toy robot that turned into a building? And the Tom Hanks character saying he didn't get it?) Tension brews: the EE folks have nothing to do and are blocked out of the development cycle at any rate. Some incompetent, lazy designer picks toxic dye and the focus group turns awry.
Sounds more cynical than dramatic, huh?
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It does sound a bit cynical. (But, as Oscar Wilde said: The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.) But it does have plenty of conflict, and that's important. I wonder if the major issue is whether this would be a long-term plot thread, or a short-term (one episode) one.
So right now I'm worried about a couple things. 1) how to fill in all the little details i.e. what every character would actually say in every episode. 2) whether the plot line is indeed per-episode or stretches across the whole series. Per-episode means you have to wrap it up fast, and whole series means you have to make every episode interesting. Each presents its own set of challenges.
As for the cynicism, I'm trying to tone that down because the story is not about the Pointy-Haired Boss or anything like that. It would be better presented as a well-intentioned mistake made by somebody that got out of hand. You see this on other dramas, like "West Wing", where the president or some staffer goofs a bit, and the difference between goof and correct is very subtle. Otherwise it becomes Dilbert all over again.
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