Comments on: Speed Bumps of the Future: Creepy Optical Illusion Children

By: Ari

Ari — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:54:00 +0000

Even a pothole can cause people to swerve, which can create an extra hazard in slippery conditions.

Ok, so a fake child on the road might cause some jittery drivers to swerve and crash (or cause others to crash) and/or cause inattentive drivers to emergency brake.
What I find more disturbing is that even attentive drivers are likely to get a heightened pulse and feeling of fear or unease, and people feeling that way are more dangerous in traffic. That’s something we actively try to discourage in all safety critical areas. Nervous or startled people make mistakes AFTER they’ve been startled.

By: preventable blogger

preventable blogger — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:49:43 +0000

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By: DerrenLover

DerrenLover — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:07:48 +0000

What if the person behind the wheel hates kids? They’ll just put their foot down harder.

Otherwise, they’re just creepy.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:47:53 +0000

I was going to mention the ‘cry wolf’ fable, but I see Rob got there first. Some ideas can be so incredibly stupid that if it hadn’t been mentioned, I would have sworn it came from the US.

By: Geraint

Geraint — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:24:37 +0000

I just had an image of a driver running over a child because they thought them to be an “optical illusion”.

By: Carmen

Carmen — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:15:04 +0000

There was a similar thing earlier in the year, but the picture on the road was a 3d image of a pot hole, so therefore drivers slowed down so they didn’t damage their vehicle, much more effective, without the shock factor! X

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:13:11 +0000

This would make me slam on my breaks, possibly causing the car behind me to crash into me. And after I’d gotten used to Pavement Patty’s in their various forms, I’d probably run over a real child. What a waste of $15000!

By: rachael

rachael — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:07:47 +0000

One of thee best artists i studied at college was a guy called Juilian Beever, he does those types of pavement drawings where they are drawn in a distorted way and at a certain angle the picture looks 3D and realistic, its called Anamorphic Illusions

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

Some fantastic stuff on his website

R
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By: jessikah cooper

jessikah cooper — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:38:40 +0000

There is a video here of it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r26AwT7PTM

for a secound you think its real, but as you get closer, it stretches.. like the chalk on pavement things..

even though its a good idea in some respects, because of the whole some people may break suddenly or swirve in the road, causing more of an accident, i think they are trying too hard with out the box methods, thats its going to backfire.

By: Dw

Dw — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:00:20 +0000

Nobody mentioned the fact that before drivers learn to ignore these paintings they will be completely fixated on them as they approach, possibly missing any surrounding hazards