Near my home there is an elementary school. The speed limit on the main road perpendicular to the entrance is 40 miles an hour. There is an electronic sign reminding people to slow down in the school zone. The sign even displays your speed and flashes if it “thinks” you are driving too fast. Sounds reasonable, right? The problem is this “smart” sign is idiotic. The sign is always on, always flashing, always cautioning drivers to slow down due the dangers of children traveling on foot to and from school…. even in the middle of the night, on a Saturday, in July. Most of the time the caution is irrelevant. Drivers subsequently ignore the sign almost all of the time. The government solution is an expensive decoration making no-one safer.
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