Scare-Cars
Here’s another in the ongoing series of unconventional traffic-calming treatments. Over at Cognitive Edge they’ve got photographs of a recent community project to put up so-called “scare-cars,” or traffic-calming scarecrows, in a small English village that apparently gets occasionally overrun thanks to sat-nav-enabled shortcut seekers. This taps into the idea that people slow for novel things, or when reminded they’re in a human place.
Bonus points for socio-economic realism: There has been a documented outmigration of “Polish plumbers” from England back to the more favorable climes of Poland.
(thanks to John Dodds)
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This entry was posted on Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 2:06 pm and is filed under Cars, Drivers, Roads, Traffic Culture, Traffic Signs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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October 4th, 2008 at 4:35 am
They have a similar thing in France when they have roadworks on the motorway. At the start of the cones, there’s usually a mechanised mannequin of a workman waving a flag. It’s only when you get close enough to see that he has no whites of the eyes to see that you realise it’s not a real person. Very effective in slowing the traffic down!