This seems like something that would start excessive traffic

A *terrible idea

Adding video to channels (Terrible) - requested by Norsuelefantti.

And right after everyone passes over this blasted thing...they speed their asses off out of spite.

topes!

(sometimes the key is speed)

It's a troll road.

That is just ridiculous. Last week I drove through a neighborhood that had these big long speed bumps on the road. I was going the speed limit, but if you go faster than 5 MPH on the bumps your front bumper bottoms out when you come off it. They don't give much of a warning either, the speed bump sign is about 5ft. from the first bump. If they're going to have a 25 MPH speed limit here, they at least need to have speed bumps that you can go over at the fucking speed limit.

>> ^jimnms:

That is just ridiculous. Last week I drove through a neighborhood that had these big long speed bumps on the road. I was going the speed limit, but if you go faster than 5 MPH on the bumps your front bumper bottoms out when you come off it. They don't give much of a warning either, the speed bump sign is about 5ft. from the first bump. If they're going to have a 25 MPH speed limit here, they at least need to have speed bumps that you can go over at the fucking speed limit.


The limit is a limit, not a requirement. It's the fastest you're allowed to go, not the speed at which you must travel. Simple fact is that the slower you go the safer you and other road users are. If the speed bumps make you slow down below the speed limit then they're doing their job.

>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^jimnms:
That is just ridiculous. Last week I drove through a neighborhood that had these big long speed bumps on the road. I was going the speed limit, but if you go faster than 5 MPH on the bumps your front bumper bottoms out when you come off it. They don't give much of a warning either, the speed bump sign is about 5ft. from the first bump. If they're going to have a 25 MPH speed limit here, they at least need to have speed bumps that you can go over at the fucking speed limit.

The limit is a limit, not a requirement. It's the fastest you're allowed to go, not the speed at which you must travel. Simple fact is that the slower you go the safer you and other road users are. If the speed bumps make you slow down below the speed limit then they're doing their job.


The speed limit is the maximum safe speed for a road based on zone and road conditions. If the posted limit is 25, you should be able to safely drive 25, but the speed bumps make it unsafe to drive faster than 5 MPH. The speed bumps weren't panted or marked, other than the sign right where they began. They aren't the type in this video, they're longer and gradual so they don't stand out. They made driving on this road less safe and efficient because of the constant slowing down and speeding up.

Ha! I'm picturing one of the pedestrian crossing signs with troll faces on the parent and kid.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

It's a troll road.

You could either drive on the grass where the camera man is standing or to the left, on top of the hedge.

>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^jimnms:
That is just ridiculous. Last week I drove through a neighborhood that had these big long speed bumps on the road. I was going the speed limit, but if you go faster than 5 MPH on the bumps your front bumper bottoms out when you come off it. They don't give much of a warning either, the speed bump sign is about 5ft. from the first bump. If they're going to have a 25 MPH speed limit here, they at least need to have speed bumps that you can go over at the fucking speed limit.

The limit is a limit, not a requirement. It's the fastest you're allowed to go, not the speed at which you must travel. Simple fact is that the slower you go the safer you and other road users are. If the speed bumps make you slow down below the speed limit then they're doing their job.


It is not a simple fact that the slower you go the safer you are. People who drive too slowly can be a serious danger on the road as well. Eg, those assholes who don't understand that you shouldn't merge onto a highway at 40 mph. That's more likely to cause a wreck than someone who is driving a bit over the speed limit.

Sweet, next time I'm on the freeway I'll go 5 miles an hour since 55 is just a "suggestion". I wonder how far I'll get before I get a ticket for impeding traffic?

>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^jimnms:
That is just ridiculous. Last week I drove through a neighborhood that had these big long speed bumps on the road. I was going the speed limit, but if you go faster than 5 MPH on the bumps your front bumper bottoms out when you come off it. They don't give much of a warning either, the speed bump sign is about 5ft. from the first bump. If they're going to have a 25 MPH speed limit here, they at least need to have speed bumps that you can go over at the fucking speed limit.

The limit is a limit, not a requirement. It's the fastest you're allowed to go, not the speed at which you must travel. Simple fact is that the slower you go the safer you and other road users are. If the speed bumps make you slow down below the speed limit then they're doing their job.

>> ^colt45:

To whom do I submit the bill for repairs to my motor vehicle?


Jerry's Auto Repair House / Speed Bump Emporium

That is going a little to far. No way in hell could I get my Honda over those. Every time the front wheels came off a bump it would slam the nose of the car on next bump. I'd have to jump the curb at an angle and drive around it. Since it seem to be a private entrance to an apartment complex I would think they are just being to damn cheap to put a gate up.

"Hello, this is the fire department"
"A fire where?"
"Well then you're just going to have to burn"

>> ^Duckman33:

Sweet, next time I'm on the freeway I'll go 5 miles an hour since 55 is just a "suggestion". I wonder how far I'll get before I get a ticket for impeding traffic?
>> ^robbersdog49:
>> ^jimnms:
That is just ridiculous. Last week I drove through a neighborhood that had these big long speed bumps on the road. I was going the speed limit, but if you go faster than 5 MPH on the bumps your front bumper bottoms out when you come off it. They don't give much of a warning either, the speed bump sign is about 5ft. from the first bump. If they're going to have a 25 MPH speed limit here, they at least need to have speed bumps that you can go over at the fucking speed limit.

The limit is a limit, not a requirement. It's the fastest you're allowed to go, not the speed at which you must travel. Simple fact is that the slower you go the safer you and other road users are. If the speed bumps make you slow down below the speed limit then they're doing their job.



Quebec has minimum speed posted on its freeways: "100 km/h maximum -- 60 km/h minimum". First place I'd ever seen that. Me likey.

If I had to drive over that enough, I think I'd just put some filler between the bumps, so I could go over slow to stay on the filler strip I put in and not knock my teeth out trying to go over the bumps.

If they are cheap speed bumps done after the road was put in, you can remove them with a square shaped shovel with a good edge on the front and a little prying. If they are more expensive/substantial they are either put in when the road was and very hard to separate or tarred down.

They started putting these plastic little hard speed bumps in grocery stores people would drive through as short cuts. They are just hard pieces of plastic with 2-3 pins they hammer into the asphalt....the pins stay and the rest of the block would usually break apart in just a few months. They are terrible to drive over and tend to get caught up in the underside of cars when they were starting to fall apart....... they stopped using those completely in just a year.


And that's a really bad place for speed bumps, if it was on a wider section of road you could angle your vehicle a little so you're not hitting with two wheels at the same time and jarring the hell out of yourself. It forces you to slow down so you're not swerving all over trying to get angled up to it, but doesn't wear out your car as bad or jolt you. Im sure emergency vehicles go in the out lane when they need to go into that neighborhood.

>> ^Duckman33:

Sweet, next time I'm on the freeway I'll go 5 miles an hour since 55 is just a "suggestion". I wonder how far I'll get before I get a ticket for impeding traffic?
>> ^robbersdog49:
>> ^jimnms:
That is just ridiculous. Last week I drove through a neighborhood that had these big long speed bumps on the road. I was going the speed limit, but if you go faster than 5 MPH on the bumps your front bumper bottoms out when you come off it. They don't give much of a warning either, the speed bump sign is about 5ft. from the first bump. If they're going to have a 25 MPH speed limit here, they at least need to have speed bumps that you can go over at the fucking speed limit.

The limit is a limit, not a requirement. It's the fastest you're allowed to go, not the speed at which you must travel. Simple fact is that the slower you go the safer you and other road users are. If the speed bumps make you slow down below the speed limit then they're doing their job.



Whatever. I was clearly talking about the video, which clearly isn't a freeway. They don't have speed bumps on the freeway.

For a vehicle with adequate clearance, I would wager that the smoothest way to traverse these (other than swerving into the other lane or otherwise going around them) might very well be to have a mild amount of speed built up -- something like 10-15 MPH or more. Remember the episode of Mythbusters where they drove on a washboard road at varying speeds, and the higher speeds were generally smoother?

Of course, you'd have to have enough play and range in the suspension to have that apply here, and they might just be too tall for the great majority of vehicles. But if that is the case, then they would also be presenting high-center and front/rear bumper scrape problems to a whole bunch of standard vehicles. If that is the case, I think a little civil disobedience (or disobedience to the housing complex or whatever entity installed them) might be in order involving a few sledgehammers and shovels...

An ambulance driver once told me "They are called 'speed bumps', not 'slow bumps'. Go fast over them." I tried it out with my normal-ish car and it went smoother then if I was going slow. The axle isn't elevated long enough for the shocks to push the frame up. Since the frame isn't up, it doesn't go crashing down. This only really goes bad if range of shock compression or the bottom of the frame to the ground is less then the height of the speed bump.

I'm not sure how that would apply to having 5-6 of them all in a row like that. Maybe most people in this area figured out the above technique and this is the way around it.

I tried this out on some local speed bumps once when the company gave me a hire car for the weekend so I wasn't bothered about ruining my own suspension. It works. I got the car up to about 30mph and the suspension compressed while the chassis stayed level. It's definitely the smoothest way across them.>> ^sadicious:

An ambulance driver once told me "They are called 'speed bumps', not 'slow bumps'. Go fast over them." I tried it out with my normal-ish car and it went smoother then if I was going slow. The axle isn't elevated long enough for the shocks to push the frame up. Since the frame isn't up, it doesn't go crashing down. This only really goes bad if range of shock compression or the bottom of the frame to the ground is less then the height of the speed bump.
I'm not sure how that would apply to having 5-6 of them all in a row like that. Maybe most people in this area figured out the above technique and this is the way around it.