On 2014-06-17 5:47 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 6/16/2014 1:51 PM, Jeßus wrote:
>>
>> 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.

I think he was referring to the rumble strips on the shoulder side of
the road, which we designed to alert drowsy drivers that they are going
off the road.