The Phrase “Fake Speed Bumps” To Now Have Meaning In Philly Beyond Friday Nights
How this one slipped past us is, well, obviously, beyond us, for it involves fakery, trickery, and public funding — all Philebs staples.
City, state, and federal officials will roll out a program aimed at getting drivers in Philadelphia to heed the speed limit. One part of this involves 3-D images that will look like bumps in the road.
[...] Denny says this effort includes the deployment at about 100 intersections of high tech decals that create a 3-D image, to make drivers think there’s something in the intersection.
First off, we wanna know what intersections these are at. Secondly, we’d like to know if anyone’s considered a “3-D Homeless Window Washer” version of these, because we think that might work even better.
Gizmodo: Philadelphia to Fake Out Drivers With 3D Speed Bump Images [via KYW]
June 25th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
looks like Excitebike ramps… no?
June 25th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I remember when they tried this strategy with crawling baby images in the late 80s. It worked for a week, then the infant mortality rate went through the roof, or should I say, “windshield.”
June 26th, 2008 at 6:53 am
The best part is that the decals are only 3 times the cost of actual speed bumps, but that price is likely to go up after the union negotiations.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Can they at least make them look more like the cover of Dark Side of the Moon? That would be so awesome! [/sarcasm]