Tag: Road safety
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Dutch “singing road” silenced after villagers complain: “I’m going nuts” — Palko Karasz and Yonette Joseph — The New York Times
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This must be the most spurious “road safety” feature ever conceived. A Dutch town decided to install rumble strips that are set at certain frequencies so that cars “play” the regional anthem as they drive over them. This article focuses on the fact that this feature is driving residents crazy as they repeatedly have to […]
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Pedestrian ways
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Town planners in the mid-20th century faced a big problem. The advent of the motor car brought increased congestion and safety risks. Planners wrongly thought that separating pedestrians and vehicles on different levels was the solution. If you know where to look, you can still see remnants of this thinking.
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People won’t stop staring at their phones, so this Dutch town put traffic lights on the ground — Neha Thirani Bagri — Quartz
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An interesting experiment to place pedestrian crossing signals on the ground, “where everyone is already looking”. The Netherlands seems to be the place for experimental road safety design (see also: the squareabout). This has got to be an improvement on the modern fad of placing pedestrian crossing signals at chest height to the side, where […]
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Distracted driving — UX’s responsibility to do no harm
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Distracted driving — UX’s responsibility to do no harm More on the need for (UX) designers to consider ethics in everything they do. I urge you to consider your own design priorities and choices in the same way that responsible physicians do when they take the Hippocratic Oath, saying “first, do no harm.” So, I […]
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There are better ways to get around town
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There are better ways to get around town A New York Times piece on how New York could take inspiration for European cities to make its streets safer. But these aren’t just lessons for New York. There are lessons for everyone. Some old-school traffic engineers in America will tell you that many of the Dutch […]
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The bumpy road to autonomy
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Autonomous vehicles — driverless cars — are coming. There will be bumps in the road along the way. But they are essential to fix our cities.
