Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk to Slow Down Speeding Cars

This is pretty cool as a trompe l&#x27;oiel, but it&#x27;s just plain dangerous to put deceptive markings on a roadway.<p>The should have called the project &quot;let&#x27;s train our drivers to ignore raised obstacles on the road&quot;.

The town where I live installed one. They cost 40% more than a regular cross walk and are a waste of money. I had driven over the thing for about a month before I realized that it was the &#x27;3D&#x27; crosswalk and not just a poorly painted crosswalk.

Uhm … this won&#x27;t fool anybody with more than one eye. It might look convincing in a photo but once you look at it on location it is gonna be instantly obvious that this is flat paint on the ground.

A better solution would probably be to revoke driving privileges of anyone caught speeding in these areas. Make it very public that this is what will happen. Then do it. I&#x27;m sick of irresponsible drivers. If you speed on the railway you could go to prison and never be a driver again. Similar for pilots.

I want to echo this comment from close04:<p>&gt; <i>In the video from the article it looks pretty realistic from a relatively high vantage point (drone several meter high) but from the regular driving position it&#x27;s still pretty flat and at best confusing.</i><p>The first thing I thought when the video opened with a driveover was &quot;it looks like they got the perspective wrong&quot;. What viewing angle is it meant for?

This is a cool optical illusion, but it&#x27;s deceptive at best to actual drivers. I could see it causing rear-end collisions when drivers first encounter them.<p>And what about cars coming from the opposite direction? They&#x27;ll see something that they won&#x27;t recognize at all as a crosswalk, raised or not.

One interesting thing is that the video at the end of the article shows a car speeding past it (coming quite close t a child) and then slowing down at the next (ordinarily painted) crosswalk.

This is clever, but does it work? The car in the video at the 1 minute mark doesn&#x27;t seem to care for them.<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.rmbl.ws&#x2F;s8&#x2F;2&#x2F;a&#x2F;m&#x2F;1&#x2F;y&#x2F;am1ya.caa.1.mp4?b=0&amp;u=8khr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.rmbl.ws&#x2F;s8&#x2F;2&#x2F;a&#x2F;m&#x2F;1&#x2F;y&#x2F;am1ya.caa.1.mp4?b=0&amp;u=8khr</a>

I am colorblind. A rely on consistency a <i>lot</i> when I am out and about. This sort of thing feels really deceptive. Aren&#x27;t there other signs, signals or actual three-dimensional tools that can be used to slow traffic (speed bumps) that are not deceptive?

The perspective is wrong I think, unless this is a one-way road.

sponsored by the local car dry cleaner