Speed bumps – friends of boring people and our eternal enemy. Some claim our bumpers, scratch our undercarriage, mess up the titanium exhaust system or in other words, they wreck havoc on our cars. They’re not supposed to do that, what they are supposed to do is slow you down – not damage cars.
Meet this new speed bump – the work of designers Jae-Yun Kim and Jong-Su Lee, who, guessing from their names, are Korean. They came up with this new speed bump technology that actually flattens when a car drives over it at low speed. It remains upright when a car is too fast causing all the usual drama that conventional speed bumps are known for.
That’s not the only thing that’s so lovable about these driver friendly speed haters – they are also fitted with LEDs all around so there’s no sudden nasty appearance out of nowhere – something that Malaysian speed bumps love to do. The designers say their goal was to encourage drivers to maintain a constant slow speed, reducing the amount of stops and starts made, and thereby reducing the amount of exhaust pollution from the car. The sad thing? They’re just concepts for now.
Source: YankoDesign via Engadget
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What a clever thing to be invented.. bet its going to be damn expensive. and i guess if Malaysia would buy and planted in our roads, i think ina matter of time it will b gone.. Vandalism. These are in fact a damn good technology. so no doubt that it may b stolen some day or damage. LED and things.. .
Before the govt buy those thing they should use the money tp repair pot holes first.
superb invention.
Reliability is another issue to be consider …
Perhaps light reflector in place of the LED. I guess it cost less than LED and less attractive to thieves
malaysia gov where will spent so much on a ‘speed bump’????…lol
Should have said active colapsible speed bump. hehehe. But then again i think this things work for cars and SUV, but how about trucks?
this will be an interesting innovation bump. at least the people with very low sports car will be in love with that. hahaha!
Its not a necessities to replace to this bumps , In Malaysia , all we need is a speed bump just like the bump in Sunway Piramid for those who have seen it..When you pass over it , you can tell that the bump is hard and better than those mountains although it is small , flat and lower..
agree with tis; we already have natural speed bumps (pot holes n syabas’s sub-con mess), they shud be properly repaired…
Brilliant!!!