• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Speed humps. On my daily 5km drive, there are about a dozen of them each way.

    I have a 900kg car with sports suspension, and I need to slow almost to a stop for many of them.

    Meanwhile people in 2500kg road-blimps are blasting through without slowing.

    Most are bumps in the road that taper on the sides. Vehicles with a wide enough wheelbase miss them amlost entirely, whereas my 1.6m wide car gets launched into the air.

    The greater the kill capacity of your vehicle, the less you are affected by these “safety” devices.