• BlindFrog@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    So this reminds of this book I read called The Circle, in which everyone’s fascination with technology and tracking and data collecting slippery-sloped at breakneck speed into 1984, except any stranger with an internet connection became your Big Brother.

    We have many other environmental ways to encourage people to drive slower, like narrower lanes, or those long thin rumble-strip-style speed bumps, or landscaping with greenery.

    BTW, why is it so hard to get information off google on traffic calming studies for freeways? Everything is about urban or suburban areas, smh. When I use “freeways” in quotes, suddenly I get a whole bunch of irrelevant results about people trying to get over their fear of driving on the freeway. Wtf google.

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      10 months ago

      The point of freeways is to go as fast as possible. There’s no houses or kids playing on them. Why would we try any kind of traffic calming (aka slowing) on them? That’s probably why you can’t find any

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        10 months ago

        Plenty of reasons e.g. environmental, injuries/accidents. Maybe I missed a /s though…

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      10 months ago

      I’m assuming the answer is yes but I’m gonna ask anyway just in case. Have you tried using highway or motorway instead of freeway?