“I don’t know about you, but my heart skips a beat if I see a ball suddenly roll out into the street in front of my car. I’m on the brake as fast as I can.
It’s a reaction that the British Columbia Automobile Association Traffic Safety Foundation is hoping lots of people have. In an effort to get speeding drivers to slow down, they’re painting an image of a child playing with a ball on the road in a school zone. The image is painted in an elongated manner, so that at the right distance, it appears three-dimensional.” (Discovery News)
I saw this story somewhere else (Consumerist? MeFi?), and a commenter there pointed out: good intentions, but also a good way to desensitize drivers to real children in the street. “Don’t worry, dear it’s just a painting.” [Thump] “Oops. Guess not.”
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