Posted June 30, 200816 yr I'd go with some real traffic calming. Why not just put in speed humps? Optical illusion helps create fake speed bumps PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- 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. Click on link for article. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/30/fake.speed.bumps.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
June 30, 200816 yr I used to live on a street that was a straightaway shot to the Detroit border half a block a way. These motherfu©kers would gun it at the light a half block the other way and be going 50mph by the time they got to my house. I would've loved to paint speed bumps on the road right at the border, let them get used to them, and them replace 'em with the real McCoy. Welcome to Detroit, pal. Or better yet: pop-up extreme tire damage spikes! Hate speeders!
June 30, 200816 yr Yeah but once they find out nothing has happen they will ignore it the next time they drive by. So the problem will come back once people get used to them.
July 1, 200816 yr People learn, and as they drive this route more than once they'll realize that they are in fact not anything at all other than an illusion. It might have an effect initially, but as time progresses I bet you'll see that the effectiveness of the illusion wears off. It's sort of like the 55 mph speed limit, it worked for a while, but by the time the national speed limit was repealed everyone had been driving the design speed of the highways for years.
July 1, 200816 yr I would've loved to paint speed bumps on the road right at the border, let them get used to them, and them replace 'em with the real McCoy. Welcome to Detroit, pal. Exactly what I was thinking. Try the fake speed bumps first. If they don't work, replace them with real ones and watch it seriously mess people up.
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