It seems I can't drive around my city anymore - its stop start and crawling over hundreds of speed humps at less than 1mph to avoid smashing my car's suspension to pieces.
The only people I tend see not doing this are
(1) BMW company car drivers who care not for the company car,
(2) white van men driving company vans
(3) Big 4x4 drivers
(4) Police officers driving police company cars
(5) Those with no understanding of the damage caused to steering and suspension components from bashing cars up humps
(6) Youths driving clapped out super-minis with no life left in them anyway
I wonder how much damage these sleeping policemen are doing to the ball joints, track road ends and shock-absorbers (indeed all all steering and suspension components) of cars?
While appreciating that these loathsome devices are necessarily making us all (apart from those listed above) slow down and so saving lives in residential areas, I wonder if safety is being compromised by increased suspension damage to both careful drivers and those listed above?
Thinking about cars braking hard in an emergency at 70mph on the motorway for example - I wonder if sleeping policeman damage has played a causal role in fatal crashes, and if so to what extent?
Could the widespread use of this crime reduction measure have created the ironic unintended consequence of more high speed collisions resulting in more deaths than they have prevented? Or not?
And here's another thought - given that those six deviant sub-types of speeding speed hump rushers hit speed humps way to fast but care not for the consequences, I expect they may suffer more sleeping policeman damage and wear and tear to their suspension components than the average driver. Compound that with the hypothesis that they may be likely to drive too fast and too close to other traffic at the best of times - you have to wonder if we have yet another one of those criminological ironic unintended consequences at work.
Bender's Ghost
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I hope you intended that to be funny, because I laughed out loud a few times.
In my beach neighborhood they've recently installed the Great Mothers of all Speed Bumps, just a few k of road with 5 or 6 bumps in series. The sign says "This is a Traffic Calmed Neighborhood"
Yet what I see is people completely, and I think understandably, losing their minds when they bottom out their boat hitches , gouge the asphalt with their props, and drag the underside of their vehicle for a few feet. And that is IF you slow down.
Very calming : )
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