• xlash123@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    There’s a really good way to reduce speeding without dumb moves like this. Design the road for the speed you want. Most roads in the US are created first without speed limit concerns, only labeling them based on a weird metric of how fast cars drive through them. Then if they are going too fast, governments just put up more warning signs and call it a day.

    There are many techniques in the road design handbook that can be used to make drivers subconsciously slow down for their own perceived safety. And it works! So let’s do more of that and less of this “make car beep” nonsense.

    • BigDiction@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Hollister, CA tried to implement one of those designs and it was comically horrible. Look it up. The stupidest fucking road I’ve ever seen. Made you drive like a drunk person on what otherwise is 25-35mph residential super straight road.