Tag: stop sign

Roadbuilding

Researchers develop low-cost stop-sign warning system

Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio believe they have found a low-cost solution to improving safety when driving rural roads at night. The Rural Area Vehicle Detection, as it is called, is a solar-powered warning system that alerts drivers to an upcoming stop sign, reports UTSA Today. The system’s thermal-energy technology detects […]

March 14, 2019

Construction Equipment

Truckers can’t miss Australia’s water curtain stop signs

Via our sister site Better Roads and the always entertaining Jalopnik, when faced with the rampant problem of semi trucks entering tunnels and overpasses with too short a clearance, the city government in Sydney, Australia has turned to an extremely clever implementation of the stop sign that simply can’t be ignored. As you can see […]

May 17, 2013

Roadbuilding

Sydney uses water curtains to alert drivers to stop

What’s the best way to catch the attention of drivers and alert them to stop? Use a giant water curtain with a projection of a stop sign. According to Jalopnik, Sydney, Australia, began installing the water curtains six years ago in response to costly damages and delays caused by oversized trucks crashing into low overhead […]

May 16, 2013

Roadbuilding

Traffic lights or stop signs?

Are traffic lights always preferable to stop signs? It’s not a new debate, and this time it’s a suburb in Brooklyn, New York, that is raising the issue. It seems cars speed through residential streets in Boerum Hill, and now some locals believe that traffic lights bear a major part of the blame as they encourage […]

March 26, 2013