Comments on: Emotionally Intelligent Bollards

By: WWWebb

WWWebb — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:31:05 +0000

How about if we make them in the shape of my mother-in-law???

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By: mikey2gorgeous

mikey2gorgeous — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:48:35 +0000

How about if we make them in the shape of my mother-in-law???

By: TOTE

TOTE — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:59:44 +0000

I agree with SteveL’s comment. After seeing so many children statues, drivers will no longer notice the statues or actual children. I would hate to imagine what will happen in this area in a few months when a child jets out into the street chasing a lost ball. Maybe statues of elderly people would be better. This should evoke the same emotional response in drivers. After all, no one wants to run down Grandma.

On a personal note, I find even the photos of the statues to be very creepy. I would avoid the area because of the creepiness factor. Ahhh…traffic calming at work.

By: Karl-On-Sea (Twitter: @karlonsea)

Karl-On-Sea (Twitter: @karlonsea) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:09:27 +0000

I think the RAC’s comment is typical of what makes a BAD driver – just concentrating on the road ahead, rather than being aware of what’s around them.

I’m not sure if you picked up on this, but there was a case using a similar idea recently where someone created a policeman scarecrow at the roadside – complete with a fake radar gun. The police took a dim view of this, and confiscated it under the 1996 Police Act (apparently it was deemed to be impersonating a police officer . . .). Here’s the story as told on the BBC’s site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/8138993.stm

By: SteveL

SteveL — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:09:06 +0000

The RAC are part of the UK car-driver lobby, no surprises there.

A bigger risk is “will it teach drivers to ignore children by the road”. The more kid-like bollards there are (none of which jump out in front of you), the more you will ignore kids by the road. I learned to ignore sheep by the roadside in the UK (They stay where they are), so got a big surprise the first time I saw a deer in the US -and especially the way it promptly jumped into the way of my hire car.