Group Uses Optical Illusion for Speed Bump, Puts Faux Kid in Middle of Canadian Road

So does the projection ever disappear, or does the drive just have to face the fact that he/she is running over a fake kid?

That is bordering on dark. I like it. Not to mention the Darwinian effect on panicky drivers.

I certainly would be worried that I would have trouble telling between this image and the 'real thing'

so, eventually people just assume they are fake kids and just drive over it like normal, until one day it is the real thing. bad idea.

I can just imagine it now... some poor bloke is just going to stay there until the kid moves, despite the fact that she can't.

"motorists could become desensitized to the warnings and eventually run over a real child they thought was just a Pavement Patty."

Honnestly officer I thought she was a speed bump, she even dresses like one!

This is ridiculous. Using projections to scare drivers into slowing? And it looks real from a distance? The potential for a driver to actually run over a kid will increase if they implement this.

Isnt this gonna be more dangerous? Drivers would slam their brakes and stuff? What if a real child was chasing a ball on the street? Ohh thats just a speed bump, just go right ahead. FAIL

1000 points?!

The automobile represents the last great hope of natural selection to prevent the human herd from becoming too stupid.

Stop trying to fight it.

I'm glad to see everyone is reading the article before posting their comments. (sarcasm)
It's elongated on the pavement, and only looks proportional from 100 feet away. As you get closer (at 18 mph as per the speed limit) it clearly is just a painting on the road. FFS, people.
But yea, Canada is a screwed up country.

This will scare children into believing in ghosts.... that's about it

As it has been already mentioned if a driver cannot distinguish a static drawing from a real kid, well, he/she should just not be driving at all.

If you begin to mistake a flat distorted image that stretches out for about 20 feet for a real child, then you are blind and shouldn't be driving anyways.

I like it. I see people speeding in school zones all the time.

I don't see what's the problem with these "speed bumps"... they are putting them in residential zones not major roads. Aren't most residential zones like 25 MPH speed limits?

I agree. and don't forget, too, that it isn't a projection. It's not a hologram. It really is painted on the road. (google sidewalk art and you'll see how the illusion works) It only looks real at a distance as stingstang stated (wow say THAT 3 times fast lol). Once you are up close, even 20, 30 ft away, it just looks like a distorted image painted on the road. The only thing I would have to agree on for the other side though is about people becoming desensitized to it jus tlike we do any other sign. I mean, you'd think that a great big flourescent yellow sign saying school zone should be enough. Or that a 25MPH sign should tell you but after all this time, we as drivers simply don't care enough, or we think we are more important than the next guy and don't have to obey. This will work... for a while. But given our history, I would think that before too long, it will be just another road sign that we ignore.

Its a good idea, you have to be really retarded to confuse one of these with a real kid. Let alone when you realize after 2-3 seconds that it is not moving.

I still stick to supporting today's speed bumps that will just throw your car out of allignment if you ignore them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJZZzM6MgW4

...or that. That works, too.

Fear is never a good motivator for anything. It only causes atemporary fix until the hormonal pathways become used to that fear stimulus.

According to the logic surrounding videos games, we'll soon have tons of drivers running kids down in the street.

Religion.

you know, that looks real enough to me.
i can see it now

a parent of 4 driveing there kids to school, however these kids decide to be monsters and are pissing the drive off over the coarse of years. the driver decides to yell at the kids, not knowing or seeing this ahead, and you wouldn't until you get close. one kid tells the driver look out, the drive looks, sees it, and swerves into a parked car going 30mph (that is the speed limit where i live for school zones, just not when there are kids, when there are, its closer to 10mps).

the kids, being monsters, only 1 is waring a seatbelt, 3 die on impact the driver swears a kid jumped out of nowhere, and they had to swerve to miss it.

you know i never once ran out in front ofa car, even going to school, if one of the kids does that, and gets hit, than thats Darwin's theory at work. i fully believe we keep to many stupid people alive by helping them not off themselves.

Isn't this one of those sidewalk chalk Illusions? Google image search sidewalk chalk guy. They should put big sink hole image instead of Road Kill Karen.

AHHH its a kid swerve *CRASH*

Why they don't just make it project a fake road bump, drivers will slow down in fear of ruining their own car, no real kids get hurt, everybody wins

Thats pretty cool. Get used to running fake children over. That way when you hit a real one, it won't be such a big deal.

So someone stops for the kid [maybe never moves his car for 20 min or so] and the guy in the car behind him is in a hurry and knows what is going on [ maybe ROAD RAGE?] So he goes around the front car, gets a ticket, really gets pissed off. Takes acetone and washes the paint off the street or smashes the optical illusion maker, oops there goes 15,000.00. Bad Idea. Make a Police car Optical Illusion.

Why not have different coloured school signs to be changed every so often , say like raging pink,or flourescent green, or a vivid blue or some such, just something to get the drivers eye...Love the fake road bump ,would be a hoot...

Just fit those inflatable speed bumps. The ones that are only active if someone is speeding and can be de-activated for emergency services. Just put one either side of the elementary school. Anyone doing the speed limit can drive normally. Anyone speeding will have to slow way down for the speed bump. Be funny watching idiots who see the hump signs, but no hump and keep speeding. Bump activates and they ruin their car hitting way too fast.

Can't really see the point in this. It is always there so you can see it from way back. Nothing like a child running out in front of you. They say that at less than 30m it looks fake, at 29km/h you don't need 30m to stop so by the time you need to start braking you can already tell it is fake.

I am a bit shocked how many people didn't actually read this before responding.

Did anyone else catch the bit that says IT WILL ONLY BE THERE FOR ONE WEEK? Everyone's freaking out about desensitizing people or running over real kids and only a couple people even realized that stretched out people don't look like paint. It'll only be ther ea week to make a point--notice it made it on headlines? It's a gimmick, not a standard speedbump. People have got to work on their reading comprehension skills. Laser beams?

Carmageddon baby! Whoo!!!