The Random thought thread

[octave]

What I am thinking is that it is very easy to speed at least partially through a school zone.   Usually, I have this mild panic near a school. Am I in the school zone yet? What time is it? Is it the school holidays?  I can see a place for speed bumps that only operate when needed. Also, speed bumps are unpleasant even if you travel over them slowly.  A road near me has about 6 speed bumps. I understand why, because it is a residential street that has become a throughway.   Travelling at the set speed of 40KPH, you still have to come to a crawl 6 times.  It certainly would be nice to travel the whole street at 40KPH without having to almost stop.  I don't think this is a wholesale replacement for the fixed speed bump (reverse or otherwise). Apparently, they have been adopted in Sweden and Iceland.    I believe there are other styles, but they broadly fit into the category of "dynamic speed bumps ", which I think was first developed to aid emergency vehicles. I don't necessarily see a case for mass adoption, though.

[nomadpete]

Alternatively, we could possibly improve the driving culture.

 

If motorists respected the safety of others, there would not be a need for these speed bumps.

 

Basically when we get behind the wheel, we suddenly act like we are ALL  great drivers, and we ALL know better than the experts who put up speed limits for proven good reasons.

 

I know because I AM a great driver (not like youse cretins).

[octave]

17 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

Alternatively, we could possibly improve the driving culture.

 

Sadly, most rules or safety features are designed for the idiots, and the rest of us just have to endure them.

[red750]

Many of the streets in our area have divided speed humps as shown below. If you are travelling at or below the speed limit, you can line up so that your wheels pass either side of the hump with no bump, or very little, like running over the cats eyes lane markers. These allow the buses and emergency vehicles to straddle them.

 

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

Alternatively, we could possibly improve the driving culture.

 

If motorists respected the safety of others, there would not be a need for these speed bumps.

 

Basically when we get behind the wheel, we suddenly act like we are ALL  great drivers, and we ALL know better than the experts who put up speed limits for proven good reasons.

 

I know because I AM a great driver (not like youse cretins).

I know you're a great driver Peter, you wouldn't be able to make it out of your driveway if you weren't!

[nomadpete]

32 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

I know you're a great driver Peter, you wouldn't be able to make it out of your driveway if you weren't!

I'd say the same about your motocross track..... that you call a driveway.

[facthunter]

A saucer of Milk for both of you. Nev

[nomadpete]

Here's a random thought.

 

If the USA collectively had half a brain, they would immediately support Ukraine bigtime in exchange for some of their weapons development.

 

Otherwise the US weapons industry will lag far behind the rest of the world. 

 

Proven testing of missiles that utilise ground following flight at 40 mtrs altitude.... 

Proven testing of marine drones that make big submarines hardly necessary.... etc, etc.

 

[Marty_d]

But they don't. The Republican party have comprehensively proven that they have no brain at all, and the Democrats are a well-meaning but ineffectual mess.

[nomadpete]

20 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

The Republican party have comprehensively proven that they have no brain at all, and the Democrats are a well-meaning but ineffectual mess.

Oh dear. 

 

So, post Trump, when the political pendulum swings, will USA be condemned to many years of "well-meaning but ineffectual mess"?

 

I fear I might not live long enough to see the end of the show!