On 6/17/2014 1:16 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.
>

You're right about that. Rumble strips are cool. I wish we had more of
those things here.