Posts: General / LOL at the speedbump of the future

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100908/od_yblog_upshot/canada-unveils-new-speed-bump-optical-illusions-of-children

"You have to wonder if the designers of the "speed bump of the future" considered that drivers might become conditioned to disregard Pavement Patty and her imaginary cohorts, creating something similar to a "boy who cried wolf" effect. Couldn't such conditioning reduce drivers' caution if a real child should cross their path?"



^exactly what I thought when I first saw it.     I hope they make celeberity versions of these.

some people have already thought that patty and her ball might not be enough. so in a further attempt to deter speedy drivers they came up with this..







But others still thought that after a while that would not be enough to stop drivers who may just have no regard for the safety of fictional 2-dimensional hominid shapes. So they have decided to just stick with what has been known to work in the past. 

lol at the sinkhole