Philadelphia has a clever new program to try to get drivers to slow down: optical illusion speed bumps!
The city is putting out high-tech plastic devices that create a 3-D image that looks like a bump in the road. Chief traffic engineer Charles Denny says in reality, the road is perfectly flat.
Denny says the goal is simple: to change the driver's mind-set to be less aggressive.
The devices will be deployed at about 100 intersections around Philadelphia. They'll give the illusion that something is sticking up out of the pavement so motorists will slow down.
once people realise these are fake, theyre going to blow right through them. and then screw up their car when they hit a real one.
Not to mention some of them are smoother if taken at speed.
more expensive than holograms? kinda doubt that. you know speed bumps are just more of what's under them, right?
People who know that it's fake are going to speed through. People who have never driven down the road are going to think that it's a real speed bump, slow down and get rear ended.
I like the idea of changing the bumps from fake to real...but I can't agree to the idea of cars getting launched into the air and crashing into each other. I think there should just be a system where it detects some bozo driving over the speed limit and the bump just changes into one of those spikey reverse security speed bumbs. ;)
Got a few of those in The Hage, Netherlands and i can tell you i do not slow down for them