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Camouflaged Speed Bumps

 Hide speed bumps in deceptive-looking "optical illusion" pavement drawings
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Cover the streets in "3D illusion" pavement drawings of the type shown in the link below.

Then, use those drawings to cleverly hide speed bumps in random locations.

That way the driver never knows when to expect them, and he'll always drive slowly, not just when there is a speed bump.

—kinemojo, Dec 21 2006

pavement art http://users.skynet....Beever/batman.html
[kinemojo, Dec 21 2006]

Youtube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8UHjlBtEwA
This is why some speed bumps aren't good [acurafan07, Dec 21 2006]

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       More speed bumps = fishy.
—angel, Dec 21 2006
   

       I think it's a fine idea.... in school zones and residential areas. Of course, there was a very good solution to the speeding problem I found in Okinawa, Japan. On short, narrow side streets, where a great number of homes were built along, they just built a shit-load of speed bumps. One road in particular, right behind the apartment I lived in, was about 100 meters long and had 20 speed bumps on it. There wasn't any illusion involved. If you drove more than 15 kph, it hurt.
—21 Quest, Dec 21 2006
   

       See link. A video on youtube shows a Lamborghini wrecking its front end on an unknown speedbump... I'd really hate to be the driver.
—acurafan07, Dec 21 2006
   

       In the area that I used to work speedbumps were installed that were a nightmare to traverse unless travelling below 20mph. Or, as someone soon discovered, unless travelling above 60mph, whereupon it was like they weren't even there. Guess which approach most drivers adopted once that nugget of information became public knowledge.   

       The problem with hiding speedbumps is that it's a once-bitten-twice-shy policy. Those who haven't come across them before will likely plough into them first time at 'normal' speed (a greater danger than if the bumps were visible).   

       Yes, you could post signs on the boundary of the hidden-bump area to get that initial speed down, but locals would soon figure out where the bumps were based on roadside furniture and landmarks.
—boysparks, Dec 21 2006
   

       If you want everyone to drive more slowly, then make the zone "reverse gear only". That should make it *much* safer. They might have a few more knocks, but just think how slowly they will be going.
—Ling, Dec 21 2006
   

       wouldn't the reverse be better - painted illusion speed bumps that aren't.
—po, Dec 22 2006
   

       This is okay as long as you don't want any emergency vehicle to respond in the area where the speedbumps are. Hitting a speedbump you don't know is there isn't fun in an ambulance.
—oneoffdave, Dec 22 2006
   

       Bad idea. As [dave] points out ambulances wouldn't get along well with this. Neither would motorbikes, quads or trikes. Speed is not the main problem, that's inattentive/poor driving. [-]
—DocBrown, Dec 22 2006
   

       Bun for [po]'s idea, bone for yours. With some remarkable arithmetic, that's a bone overall. [-]
—david_scothern, Dec 22 2006
   


 

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