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On 6/16/2014 1:51 PM, Jeßus wrote:
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> Thanks. Sounds like a good idea.
>
> Another good idea - not sure if on roads O/S or not - is 'bumps' on
> the edges of the road, to make your tyres make a lot of noise, in case
> you've nodded off and are veering off the road. They are not on all of
> our roads, just the long distance, boring stretches where these sort
> of accidents commonly happen.
>

Those bumps on the road was invented in the US and are called "Bott's
dots" I kid you not. They were the solution for having road dividers
that had more visibility under different conditions. Waking up sleeping
drivers was purely unintentional.