All road safety strategies (that don’t involve speed traps!) deserve to be studied. Including this one, which uses cardboard police cars to scare speeders.
The method, quite simple, has already been adopted in some countries, with proven effectiveness. In Spain, last year, a video circulated on social media showing a cardboard model of a Guardia Civil vehicle parked on the side of the CM-3203 road between Albacete and Aína, allegedly as a project competing in an event to discover new forms of road signage that help protect workers in road maintenance.
The intention is to make drivers slow down their vehicles at specific points, since from a distance the cardboard figures are easily mistaken for real patrol cars. And the reaction of the overwhelming majority of drivers is to slow down.
In other words, it seems that a photograph printed on a large piece of cardboard on the road has the same deterrent effect as actual officers on site.
What do you think of this idea?
