India is trying out a new “virtual” speed bump with the objective of reducing fatalities caused by speed bumps and potholes, CarAdvice reports. Based on India’s 2014 road accident report, some 11,000 fatalities were recorded as a result of speed bumps and potholes.
Statistics indicate that the number of vehicles in India have seen a rapid rise over the last three years, growing from five million to over 75 million, and infrastructure expansion hasn’t been able to cope quickly enough. Both these factors are said to be the key reasons behind the creation of the unique speed bumps.
With that, officials in India have instructed for speed bumps to be removed from freeways and arterial roads next. Replace these are 3D paintings that create an image of a speed bump. The logic behind this is still of course to get drivers to slow down and to ensure the safety of pedestrians. However, the other benefit is that it’s much cheaper than an actual speed bump.
“We are trying out 3D paintings used as virtual speed breakers to avoid unnecessary requirements of speed breakers,” Nitin Gadkari, India’s minister of road transport tweeted. The minister added that it will also be tested on a couple of highways. “If it doesn’t cause any problem of road safety, we can experiment with it further,” he said.
Such a programme has existed before in other countries. It was trialled in the US in 2008, where bumps at some 100 junctions were substituted for 3D paintings. Elsewhere, Scandinavia and Canada have also trialled a similar programme too. So, do you think this sort of bump will work here? Share your thoughts below.
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speed bumps pretend to be true while drivers pretend to slow down. Good try…
Their virtual toilet is already successful. Everyone in India pretends roadside is the toilet.
savage!
Why not just paint an image of a cow?
Too sensitive to laugh, bt funny AF!
Not cool to joke on their holy animal. It’s OK though to make fun of their public defecation lifestyle.
afraid they avoid the cow and hit others. hahaha
I dont think this is a good idea. Firstly, when the rude driver is used to this road, they will be back to normal bad attitude. Secondly, for the innocent driver, when their brain is too use to this figure, later their brain will think real log in the middle of a high speed highway is just a painting, and they will just drive over it. If that happens at 100kmh you know what is next.
how about 1st one is the painted one..second one is the real one..then painted..painted..lastly real one. the evilest thing i can imagine.
Its a good try… but it will not works after those driver familiar with it… coz they know its a fake one… no one will border it…
it might work on the first time one passes by the speed bump but subsequently it won’t work any longer for the same person. No?
good invention!
will increase unnecessary number of casualties…especially bikers coz jam/emergency brake for no reasons
All commenters are brainless. Let put it this way, the idea of having virtual speed bump a.k.a 3d bump will surely slows down the traffic but may cause accidents if some brainless drivers or new to this piece of crap think it was a bump and bump that looks like pieces of blocks on the road. What an idiotic ideas.
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Good thinking. Virtual toilets in India also can cause accidents. People may abruptly change lanes to avoid virtual feces only to run over the real thing.
Yeah, in Bolehland we use real high bump and real deep potholes!
It will work from this direction only, but not from from the opposite.
What happens at night when its dark?
3D traffic police should work in Malaysia.
Malaysia seems to have invisible traffic lights. Drivers have been caught running the red light. Hehehehe