Richard Fairhurst wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Igor%20Shubovych/diary/5772
This one could almost be viewed as a parody of one of my earlier posts, which I admit was almost a stream of consciousness because I was attempting to write the idea down before it left me. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Paul%20Johnson/diary/5200 > http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2009/04/the-crap-o-surface-detector/ I fell for it, mostly because due to previous experience as a delivery driver, I really wish there was some way for GPS systems to take quality of pavement including traffic calming and overall average speed of traffic during a certain time of day into account. Fragile freight hates yuppie speedbumps, and yuppies hate broken cargo. Ironically, these same folks are often the ones tailgating delivery trucks trying to get them to speed up in the heights, when the delivery drivers are trying to take it easy on turns and negotiating traffic calming devices so the freight they're expecting doesn't get damaged! That being said, my favorite traffic calming device is the speed cushion, because my old delivery truck was wide and tall enough to make use of the fire lane over the central median to avoid hitting the bump if nobody was coming the other direction. Needless to say, anybody tailgating me on that maneuver would be in for a bad shock if they thought I was going around a parked car!
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