Interesting Way to get people to slow down

Not buying it... not in the USA anyway... that's a great way to get a major lawsuit... if you were coming up on that and didn't see it what would stop you from potentially jerking into the car in the next lane over... or jamming the brakes and getting rear-ended... major lawsuit just waiting to happen... hmm... I think it's more stealthy internet advertising.
 
My father has been working in Guam and sent me this email. These are on the island all over the place and a team goes around moving them to different positions all the time to keep things fresh...

lol.
 
Now that is funny... but face it... a lot of lawyers have ruined the USA... you could never have those here.
 
MattinSTL said:
... but face it... a lot of lawyers have ruined the USA...
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One of the best lines I've read on this site yet. :thumbsup:

And I also agree with what Matt said in the post before, but isn't it funny how our minds automatically go to money (lawsuits) before they go to safety? As in, that's a million-dollar lawsuit waiting to happen, as opposed to that's a hundred-car pile-up waiting to happen...

Personally, those things kinda remind me of those 'black holes' from looney tunes.
 
Guam is part of the US. In any case, I don't see a lawsuit from this; it's no more of an obstruction than a stop sign painted on the ground and the state would have to waive immunity anyway.

Besides, the US is hardly alone in that kind of stuff . . .
 
David Jimerson said:
Guam is part of the US. In any case, I don't see a lawsuit from this; it's no more of an obstruction than a stop sign painted on the ground and the state would have to waive immunity anyway.

Besides, the US is hardly alone in that kind of stuff . . .
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Dude... you have got to be kidding me.

It's not the obstruction aspect... it's the impression that you'll do $2K worth of damage to your Lexus when it drops down in that hole... which makes you slam your brakes, or jerk into the next lane as you say "Oh F*CK!"... because you don't remember that giant "hole" the last time you took this route.

If they really look... in REALITY... as convincing as they look in the pictures... then those would absolutely be a hazard...

To continue the looney toons analogy... how about if you used a picture of the road continuing straight... on a curve... (creating a fork in the road where the new section is heading straight off into the distance) but it's actually a cement wall... I realize that's also just clever art... but let's suppose granny in her 1" thick glasses slams into that wall... is there a lawsuit?

I don't think the OP intended this to become a serious discussion... but... c'mon... it would be pretty risky to lay those out in the land of $7M coffee cooch burns, etc.
 
I stand by what I said, including that Guam is part of the US and that the state would have to waive immunity for a lawsuit to proceed.

The further analogy doesn't hold because it creates an impression of safety where there isn't safety (which would probably be criminal, not just civil, liability), not the impression of danger when there isn't danger.
 
If our system didn't want usa to speed, we'd not have speed limit signs, but speed limiting transistors. Our cars would be governed per speed zone and there would be no such thing as speeding or fatalities related to speed.
But that would not be as profitable so...
 
grinner said:
If our system didn't want usa to speed, we'd not have speed limit signs, but speed limiting transistors. Our cars would be governed per speed zone and there would be no such thing as speeding or fatalities related to speed.
But that would not be as profitable so...
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Exactly
 
grinner said:
If our system didn't want usa to speed, we'd not have speed limit signs, but speed limiting transistors. Our cars would be governed per speed zone and there would be no such thing as speeding or fatalities related to speed.
But that would not be as profitable so...
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Well Norwich Union aka Aviva (as its known in the US) has tried GPS based monitoring "Pay as you Go" car insurance, I think they even trialed enforced speed limits (i.e. the car would not physically go faster than the speed limit for a particular area)

I'm not sure what happened to these trials though.

Anhar
 
people screamed no fair, I wasn't driving my car, just like they do with stop light camera tickets. It was a money making attempt that waisted a lot of money. I'm sayin don't be greedy and just govern some speed. Call it done.
But then, we are a society that places booze in gas stations and parking lots at bars while pretending to hate drunk driving so...
 
grinner said:
people screamed no fair, I wasn't driving my car, just like they do with stop light camera tickets. It was a money making attempt that waisted a lot of money. I'm sayin don't be greedy and just govern some speed. Call it done.
But then, we are a society that places booze in gas stations and parking lots at bars while pretending to hate drunk driving so...
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If we hated drunk driving our cars wouldn't have so many beer holders in 'em. :thumbsup:

Hey seriously... I totally agree with you on the GPS speedo thing... vs. money. It's all about money... and it probably always will be.

If the government really cared about green I wouldn't be stopping at a red light in the middle of the night with no cars for miles... not to mention the hundred other times throughout the day that I stop at a light for no reason whatsoever (except that the light is red).

If pictures of hellish potholes are reasonable to put on the ground then some other company should put images of people down there... isn't that what made Bond go off that one corner? :beer:
 
Maybe Its just me, but those 'pot hole pictures' probably would not look real enough:

because the photos need to display 3d depth, they would only look right at a certain perspective, as you move along the road, your perspective will also move, hence breaking the visual illusion,

not to mention the shadows looking wrong as the sun moves through out the day,

Now if you have a 3d venticular display......

Anhar
 
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