Canada Introduces Child Friendly Speed Bump

[Vampyr]

Sooo...most people drive the same roads every day. Even if this shocks you the first time, you'll know every other time it isn't real.

That being said, I really hate speed bumps. Most of them around here are so large that even if you're going the speed limit you have to slow down to a crawl to ease over them. Not to mention the paint has wore off of most of them.

[Angrist]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

That being said, I really hate speed bumps. Most of them around here are so large that even if you're going the speed limit you have to slow down to a crawl to ease over them.

My driving instructor taught me to take the bumps with 10 kms (7 miles?) under the speed limit. Works like a charm.

Also, this idea is stupid. Like the article says, this thing conditions people to keep driving when they see a child playing at the street.

In the UK they're experimenting with a different optical illusion, something with trees that grow closer to the road, which gives the illusion of a higher speed.

[Typhoid]

this thing conditions people to keep driving when they see a child playing at the street.

I'd argue that it conditions people to assume every child is a speed bump, and to slow down accordingly upon driving over them.

And you know, hopefully while they're slowing down the child can saunter out of the way.

But I think regardless of how many times you take the road (despite the fact that speed bump appears to be in an underground parking lot for BC Hydro) and know full-well that the child is a speedbump and not a real child - if you're fiddling in your purse for your phone, or grabbing something from between your seat and out of the corner of your eye you see the shape of a child, it will instinctively make you slam on the brakes.

But if you're driving attentively at a normal speed, it's just a normal freakin' speedbump.