Why are "speed bumps" still legal to place on any roads in 2017?

because auto shops need to make money

They exist because somebody got annoyed at people driving "too fast" (50 mph) down straightaways, so they go to the local civic association and annoy the city enough to get them put in, only to be annoyed by the amount of trash and noise they generate.

The only reason I go to civic association meetings is to stop Sandy from putting a speed """"""""""""""cushion""""""""""""""" at every intersection because she's too busy overdosing on xanax to watch her kids.

You're driving the wrong car.

youtube.com/watch?v=h_iwUTXqTqM

There are plenty of sub-1000€ XMs near me.
Is it a good car, or are its suspensions the only good thing about it ?

>residential roads
>50 mph isn't too fast
People like you are the reason no one is letting their children play outside anymore.

Well, it is a big citroen. If you can get one that has been well maintained you are good to go. You can also get one that is only held together by black magic and cheap wine.

meanwhile over here in yuropoor
>city council infested by greens and socialists decides to ruin a certain road with way too many speed bumps
>citizens living next to the road complain about the added noise
>as a response the council decides the speed bumps aren't annoying enough and they must be made taller because "muh chilluns"

Parents should teach their children to stay away from the road

Speed bumps are pretty pointless to normies anyway. I watch them just fly over them and it makes me cringe when I hear the noises their shocks make. They either fly over them or go insanely slow over them even though they're driving a truck or SUV.

>speed bumps installed at my apartment complex
>people fly over them enough to ruin the bolts and break them off their mounting points
>most get lost
>they put even bigger ones
>same shit, half of them are gone

Another apartment complex has the tallest speed bumps I've ever seen. I'm not stanced by any means but I had to raise my suspension quite a bit just to cross them without my exhaust rubbing on it.

to slow down potential speeders in residental neighbourhoods

This.
Bad parenting is why kids can't play outside anymore.

How do you destroy these? Do I really have to rent a jackhammer or are there bolts I can undo. I cannot stand these things

>stancefags acting like niggers
color me surprised

Speaking of shitty parents.

>north side of my town
>21yo box truck driver driving the speed limit through a neighborhood
>17mo old girl runs under his truck as he passes, gets run over by his rear tire, and dies
>driver has to drive away because the nigger family is coming straight for him
>get away from them and call the police
>driver was not charged for anything

Shitty parents scarred the poor guy for life.

Depends on the type. A lot of the ones I see are held in by concrete penetrating bolts that you could probably get out with an impact and a socket.

When riding bicycles? In a residential street?

>stop having fun and growing up near me, I have places to speed to!

They work. At least in a big city i live in.

Yeah they are annoying as fuck but unless you like setting money on fire for a mechanic they actually do work to slow you down.

What poor shithole do you live in where there aren't sidewalks?

I don't usually mind them but there's one by the near the school that's right in the radius of a hill.
When you drive down the hill you have to break which naturally pulls the nose of the car down.
Then you hit this awkwardly positioned speed hump (actual asphalt one not this silly bolt on plastic shit) so you inevitably rub with your lip or oil pan/guard.
If it wasn't the middle of the night I'd take a pic of how scrubbed the asphalt on that impact point is.

>not driving muh rally car

>riding on the sidewalk
that's illegal

How about not lowering your car to retard levels

So is j-walking

ambulances are the only reason you need to permanently ban these things

My Boxster can get over them just fine

need them in alley's stop faggot child's form doing 60 in them

i recently saw on facebook some "new innovative speedbump" that used air pressure or hydraulics to simply fold down flat when you drive over it slowly, but it would stay still if you drove over it quickly.

as any sponsored facebook post though, i can't fucking find it again. I really liked the idea of just having to slow down and not feeling the bump at all, instead of slowing down and have it fuck my shit up aswell.

>mechanical speedbump
yeah no, those won't last long before failing and just sitting flat or jamming in the up position. all it takes is some chucklefuck in a UPS truck to hit it doing 50 or so with a full load of Amazon Basics brand bricks

do you like idea that they will cost 10x normal speedbump + service cost? and you will pay for them

>Children should be imprisoned in their homes so I can drive recklessly

Cycling on footpaths is illegal, dangerous and inconsiderate.

>Criminalising pedestrianism
Not all of us live in a motorised dystopia.

As someone who isn't too fond of citroens, that looks nice as hell.

youtube.com/watch?v=3KPYIaks1UY

>Well, it is a big citroen.

For you

I'm not sure where you guys are from but the speed bumps around me are raised sections of asphalt. It's a bump made from asphalt on top of the road and painted with yellow arrows

>putting speed bumps at intersections

Came here to post something like this. Glad it was said.

you know what's worse than speedbumps? when there are lots of small bumps that only cover half the lane. don't know if you have them anywhere else in the world, but they're fucking everywhere in the ACT.

>car that can jump over objects on the road
They should have sold it to cops for jumping curbs and dividers.

>the law is important when i like it but not important when I disagree with it

Just say that speedbumps are a nuisance to ambulance and stop using grid planning in residential areas.

Can't they just use cornstarch?

Stretch Armstrong XXXXXL

Yfw lifted ambulances

>Why are "speed bumps" still legal to place on any roads in 2017?
Why shouldn't everyone be allowed to drive 40MPH on residential roads? If they hit someone, it's going to be hit and run too.

your boxster also a womans car and pile of shit. even worse than miata you fag

>projecting

To be fair it is a woman's car. Now I personally don't see the problem with driving a woman's car but we should try and be honest.

Cyclists on roads is illegal as they cannot meet minimum speed laws, dangerous due to no safety measures and inconsiderate.

40mph is pretty slow.

>a full load of Amazon Basics brand bricks
Made me kek

If Americans have a real problem with people doing 50mph or more down residential streets then they deserve the speedbumps

I understand why they exist but their placement is often in bullshit areas. Like the road to my job is a 35mph but has speed humps. Like fucking why??
What also annoys me is
>25mph zone
>Speed bump: 15mph
How about the speed bumps are made to be hit at 25mph you dumb cunts? Why the fuck do I have to do 10 under because Barbara can't watch her shitty kids

>minimum speed laws
They only exist on freeways and cucksville.

I'd just start rev matching into ever gear as loudly as possible while approaching. Fuck them.

>Tfw Stock height civic with stiff coilovers.
I usually approach them really slowly if they're those ones that are built like a fucking parking space curb. If they're the humps I handle them just fine. The former are fucking evil. Whoever invented them should have been drowned at birth.

>increases wear on suspension
>increases wear on brakes
>increases wear on clutch
>increases noise
>increases polution
>increases fuel consumption
>increases chance of a rear end collision
>increases travel time
>keeps the mothers association happy

really makes me think. so many of the roads here a terrible, littered with pot holes and retarded patch work. yet there seems to be a new speed bump every other week. they even started putting them at the entries of roundabouts here.

I couldn't care less about speed bumps in residential areas.

I've seen so many drivers doing 50+ in a fucking area where kids are out playing and shit, it seriously grinds my gears more than anything. Speeding on a highway being mr. Mid Night is a lot different.

And the lot of speed bumps I've seen are concrete, so you can't unbolt them.

Oh hell yeah.

I hate taking speedbumps in my vette. You gotta take them diagonally and then some woman in an SUV behind you is trying to drive up your asshole.

Why install a speed bump when you can install a ramp instead?

youtu.be/5DlxcSdij3o

Tell me about it. I live in NH our local DPW is fucking useless. Been living here for a year and they'll patch a pothole twice a month because they don't give a shit enough to do a decent job the first time and then waste the rest of the budget ripping up and replacing roads that are already decent while ignoring roads that are pockmarked hellscapes. Our neighborhood was apparently repaved like 3 years ago and last winter just fucked it completely.
>8 inch high frost heaves for a quarter mile
Fuck everything and fuck the city of Rochester

>sign next to speedbump is 20kmh
>slow down to 10 just to be safe
>*BUMP*
>everything in the car that isnt tied down starts flying around

Go over it faster, let the tires and suspension take it rather than the body. That's the solution to most speedbumps around where I live. If it can handle a 3 inch deep pothole on the freeway at 100km/h, it can handle a 3 inch tall, meter long speedbump at 50.

that tailgater in the SUV must've been shitting himself

>mfw watching stancecucks struggle on speedbumps

Or depending on where you are any car, the ones outside my mother's house cause everything short of a land rover to ground out, even with the Phaeton suspension in the high position and going diagonally scrape on some of them so I now have a convoluted route through the backstreets when I go to visit to avoid the worst ones. It's quite anoying when you are there as well as every time a car goes past you hear it taking a chunk out of the bottom of the car because they are almost 50% higher than the maximum allowed and the approach and departure angles are wrong, but the council refuse to fix them

you think those are bad?

watch this

If you drive 50 down residential streets (the only places I've ever seen speed bumps/dips) you should be gassed.

What the fuck is this?

You're fucking retarded.
My 99' bmw 328i with simple koni suspension would scrape on speed bumps, and it sure as shit wasn't stanced. How about you actually get a car that has a center of gravity that isn't 3 feet in the air and get back to me.

Children Cyclists are legally required to both wear helmets and stay on foot paths.
Adult cyclists are legally required to ride in the street.

A child riding their bike in the street is not only illegal, it's even more dangerous than an adult doing it.

If you kikes would actually look up local laws you might actually know what you're talking about.
People here also think that 50cc scooters are road legal without registration, insurance, or a license. Which is completely wrong, drunks will get slammed into jail just as quickly as if they were driving their car.

Additional point, children are not allowed to ride their bikes while crossing streets, they have to walk them.

Watch what?

Fuck honda

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Heatwave caused road to buckle.

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If your car doesn't have rock solid shocks/cut springs/stanced to shit:
>approach bump at moderate speed
>right before the bump tap the brakes to load the front
>feel front tyres make contact with bump
>accelerate and speed over bump like it's nothing
>watch in rear mirror as next schmuck tries it and has their car jumping everywhere

If you think speed bumps are bad you've never dealt with these fucking things. The one pictured is very new, every one I've seen has grass 4 meters tall so you can't see through it, this means your average driver will fly through it at full speed. I've seen the wreckage of a box truck vs sedan on an otherwise completely safe road, but nope, they keep building them, every 50 meters. And to top it off, kids fucking love these things, they play in the grass and do jumps off the corners all day long. At night it becomes a great place to block the road if you're a criminal looking rob someone.

Theres one of those that connects onto a second street near me, its really fucking stupid
Better than speedhumps on a hill though

The worst part is waiting for grandma to crawl over those because muh suspenshun and then having the whole of town queue up behind her so you end up having to wait five times as long to pass.

Flying over those smoothly is pretty fun though.

To literally kill people by fucking with emergency vehicles

> but think of the chillins
My parents beat me for playing in the road, and for nothing else. Things that will get you killed by a brotruck or motorcycle catching air off speedjumps are no joke.

Ride your bike along the side of the road to the park like a normal brat.

Unenforced, especially for minors.

>should slow the traffic
>soccer moms just fly over it in their fuckhuge SUVs while complaining that loud shitboxes endanger their children

the ones i'm talking about don't have speed bumps integrated. pic related is also a common one but these are much better because you can actually SEE speedy mc cigarette flying over it in his overloaded work van.

>be delivery driver
>people using parking lot of strip mall my store is in as a thru road
>people always blasting down it despite the speed bumps
>start just blindly walking out every time I go out to my car because my life is shit and I don't care if I get run over and die
>either get killed by speeding woman on her phone or lol as they slam on their brakes and yell at me
>mfw either way I win

>work van

Used to have a shitbox van at work and it would literally leave the ground over those.

what moron thought this was better than a speed bump

The ones with speed bumps are more fun.

I love how the council aren't even bothered enough to line the crossing with impact resistant bollards just in case the next tweaked out tradie goes flying over the curb instead of using the passing.

they usually get taken out by local DOT or contractors when they plow the roads and never get rebuilt

This is great, in dubai they installed a speed bump on a highway without telling anyone.
Watch the last one

youtube.com/watch?v=Vg79_mM2CNY

>the council
kek reminds me of what they did on sandgate rd coming from the airport:
>insanely short right turning lane painted before an intersection
>road is reasonably wide
>in peak hour traffic cars would queue out of the turning lane
>cars not turning would just pass them because the turning cars were close or on the centerline
>completely safe because the only time the queue existed was during a red light when all the cars are going

Holy fuck how high are those shits? Most speedbumps in my EUshit country are 1-2 cm high at most.