That's no speed bump. That's a barricade!
Posted on 06/27/2008 9:29:41 PM PDT by flintsilver7
PHILADELPHIA — Cathy Campbell did a double-take and tapped the brakes when she spotted what appeared to be a pointy-edged box lying in the road just ahead. She got fooled. It was a fake speed bump, a flat piece of blue, white and orange plastic that is designed to look like a 3-D pyramid from afar when applied to the pavement. The optical illusion is one of the latest innovations being tested around the country to discourage speeding. "It cautions you to slow down because you don't know what you are facing," Campbell said. ...
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or somebody is going to overlook a real speed bump and tear the undercarriage off their car.
slow down to 5 mph for no reason.
Speaking of rear enders, studies have shown that there are more rear end accidents at intersections with red light cameras. People who might normally go through the yellow light slam on the brakes so as not to get caught going through the intersection as the light changes. So they get rear ended instead.
the article has some hilarious quotes
That's no speed bump. That's a barricade!
Don't worry. We will all adjust to them just like animals adjust to tracking implants in their ears.
Musent forget the real reason we have tracking cameras - so they will know where we are at, at all times ya know.
Just waiting for someone to put a real object on top of the fake one.
I recall way back in 1972 when the local hospital decided they needed speed bumps to slow down cars approaching a pedestrian crosswalk. Makes sense, who wants pedestrians in the crosswalk getting whacked by cars? The problem was that every ambulance going to the emergency room had to navigate those speed bumps. Very uncomfortable for people who are in pain and downright dangerous for the patient with an unstable spinal injury.
***The optical illusion is one of the latest innovations being tested around the country to discourage speeding.***
Better than that police car/police officer cardboard idea...
After millions are spent installing them, and there are hundreds of accidents, and millions in damages, people will become familiar with them — and then they’ll be completely ignored.
I remember having a fracture femur and even the smallest dip or jerk of the ambulance caused tremendous pain. OTOH I know how stupid people can be, I was driving on a county road last year as 2 deer came up out of a culvert, I slam on the brakes and I nearly caused three cars behind me to wreck. There was maybe enough room for one car to follow at that distance but someone 3 squeezed in.
That’s exactly what I see happening.
Right you are those look very large. Some drivers may even be scared of damaging their car. I wonder how long it will be before someone swerves to avoid them and causes a serious accident.
Why not put up walls across the streets and have Wile E. Coyote paint tunnels on them? That would really slow down traffic.
Please tell me that’s a joke.
After the locals realize these are fake … Katy bar the door. Ignore comes to mind. ;-)
I think the whole speed bump thing is a scam. My brother lives near a park that I have to drive by on the way to his home. Then I have to traverse the course again on the way home. There are about seven speed bumps every 75 to 125 feet along that park frontage. By the time I have traversed that stretch of road, I want to strangle someone.
Evidently some kid ran out in the street and got killed af few years back. Now every driver that traveles that road 24 hours a day has to practically stop at every speed bump. They are about four inches high. The parents aren’t to blame, no penalty for them. Evidently the public that has to travel that stretch of road is to blame, and they are penalized every time they need to use the public road.
You’d have to be a complete moron to think this is justified.
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