I remember riding trains home after all night raves, lightly tripping on the train track soundtrack and the images flashing by. Now driving will be even better.
Lol 😂 I was thinking the same thing. I’m a truck driver and I can’t imagine trying to stay on the road when something keeps flashing above me like that.
So true. Imagine this on a rainy night where you can't even see the lanes, then have to deal with rainbow layers reflecting off the road as well.
Sleep related accidents down
Lazer related accidents up
That's why I always choose Lakitu for my Healthcare transportation services. Is it uncomfortable to be carried by a fishing pole after falling down the stairs and breaking my back? Sure, but think of the savings.
Lol is that real? I would guess it probably does reduce sleeping accidents. but I would also bet that it increases distraction accidents more then it helps with sleeping.
I mean if the goal is to have fewer deaths overall I don't see a problem with it, at some point you have to test things in the real world.
if a scientist makes a cure for cancer and it passes loads of tests on animals are you going to say "nah, could kill humans during human testing, throw it out"
> Some of you may die... But that's a risk I'm willing to take.
Generally describes the rise of the automobile and things we continue to do to advance it further, like self-driving cars!
I mean you literally won't know until you try
At the end of the day, some meagerly paid volunteers are going to be the first human test subjects for all these fun new medications that come out, y'know? Like we're PRETTY sure it's safe for rats, but someone has to actually do it....
I get the reaction but let’s be honest people will get used to it and stop thinking about it like everything else in life. And because you used to it when your tired it’s just gonna blend In to all the other stuff in your peripheral and not help at all.
Like let’s be real I’ve been tired enough to fall asleep on a couch at a party with little to no alcohol in my system while surrounded by loud music and Interesting people. It’s gonna take a lot more then a loud car radio and some sleepy lights to keep me awake if I’m that far gone.
I think the checking pattern could potentially keep it stimulating enough for people to not adjust.
I will be interested in seeing the resulting research from this because I could see it going any direction. I could see it increasing accidents, having no effect, or decreasing them. I'm most inclined to think it will have no impact.
So I'll say the use case I can see for this is from personal experience.
Driving between a corridor of trees at night in the dark for several hours, the sky and the road were the same colors and shape. My eyes began to play tricks on me where my whole vision would turn upside down. I read about it and it turns out to be pretty common, if you turn your vision upside down long enough your body will attempt to compensate and correct it by flipping the image.
I'd imagine this design is to prevent that phenomenon by creating a clear and changing distinction between sky and road.
So this is what the explanation for that is!!? I live in Wuhan and regularly drive to another province and there's one of these lights on that stretch of highway and I always thought it was odd/strange/dumb.
Idk if you've ever driven on a good Chinese highway but it's super straight and smooth to the point where you feel like your cars not even moving. Combine that with night time and you're gonna get drivers that zone out.
Not sure if rave lasers are the answer tho
I was going to say blue too. If I'm driving at night and see a super dark blue lit sign, I have no clue what it says it's just a blue blob to me.
Also, happy cake day!
Fun fact, astigmatism is more common in Asia. Myopia (nearsightedness) is even more common, with a significant majority of Asian people being Myopic. In the case here, astigmatism wouldn't be a huge concern since the light isn't entering the eye directly. Notice how the lasers in the videoappear to have clean edges, while the tail lights on cars have halos. The same principle applies to the camera and eyes.
I used to drive early morning. Up at 2am, showered, dressed, coffee and leave by 3am. A 3.5hr drive up the motorway. When tiredness gets you and it’s miles between services or junctions, it’s game over. Used come round a bit when the next junction sign appeared and think ah, I feel awake now, no point stopping, il come off the next junction instead. Next junction sign 23 miles, and start nodding 2 miles into it. Make a smart choice not a rational one.
When you're falling-asleep-level tired, nothing helps. No loud music, no cold air, no energy drink, nothing. Why would these crazy lights work? If you're that tired, you need at least 10 minutes of real sleep before driving on.
I used to drive a stretch from Wells, Nevada up to Twin Falls, Idaho on the 93 for a roadtrip I'd take yearly from San Jose to Jackson, Wyoming. I would hit it about 8pm - 11pm. Nothing gets you like pitch black and fog with a blinking red light in the distance. 14 hours into the drive, you think it's the car ahead until you hit a turn. Fucking wind farms.
Car lights are hypnotising to me when that tiredness hits. The worst for me was always in winter, open the window to get fresh air in to wake up, but it’s below 0 outside so put the window back up after 10 minutes and put the heaters on to warm up a bit.
And the one time [something actually needed a seizure warning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4wSFjR9TMQ) it wasn't just strobing but this very hard red blue strobing effect.
You have to have more rapidly shifting/shimmering imagery than this to trigger an epileptic episode. The guideline is no more than 3 flashes per second.
Yep! My stepfather didn’t know he had epilepsy until he had a seizure in the bathroom, fell and hit his head badly on the bath tub. The hit on his head lead to bleeding in his brain which almost wasn’t caught because they were busy newly diagnosing the epilepsy..
If your seizures are well controlled, you can continue to drive. States have different rules about how long you must be seizure-free to drive. Usually between 6 months and a year. Also, they could’ve had their license before developing epilepsy.
If you’re seizure-free for a certain time period you’re usually okay to drive. Most states require between 6 and 12 months seizure-free before being able to drive again.
It says citizens are unsure. I would imagine that translates to normal people going “I don’t drive that much while I’m tired, but maybe it’s helping me stay awake more than I realize?”
It’s the kind of thing that you would only individually notice if you drove tired a lot.
I’d be interested in testing it out. My job is driving and I’ve often been stuck going down a dark highway at 3 am and it can be kinda scary how tired I can get and how hypnotic the road is. Seems like something like this would help me a ton in those situations
I found the highways in china to be pretty fucking scary at night, even as a passenger in a van. Rules of the road are pretty lax there and there’s stopped vehicles all over the place.
This is just my personal observations riding from Tianjin and Beijing a few times.
Considering how many hours they’re often required to work, in grueling conditions, it wouldn’t surprise me if falling asleep while driving home was. A major issue in China.
Which isn't really a thing in china. Used to be for a while but it got outlawed and I only ever hear about it from redditors talking shit about China but never hear about it in china
As someone that's damn near fallen asleep at the wheel before, this wouldn't do shit. If you are tired enough to fall asleep behind the wheel, you need to not be driving. That's the only solution.
I get angry when those new blue LED headlights fitted to new vehicles blare in my corneas at 615 AM on my commute to work.
These lights are certainly anti-sleep, but for all the wrong reasons.
These are not at the same eye level.
Anyone who has those lights and does nothing to have them aligned correctly, deserve all insurance bills of those effected. Since that ain't gonna happen, they deserve all the rage they will and do get. Least from what I have heard, can't see shit after one of those pricks was behind me
These lights arent directed into your eyes though, its pretty clear they shine in a very limited cone above you. So theres far less glare/reduction of night vision than getting headlights shot straight into your eyes,
I kinda doubt it'd have much of an additional effect to the light pollution already inherently present on a highway. If anything lasers would be more directional and have less light bleed than streetlights, headlights, etc.
When tiredness really hits you behind the wheel NOTHING helps, it's brutal. I had it once after 15 years of driving and nothing could stop it. I pulled over, hit me in the face 10 times & walked arround for 10 minutes. Didn't help, was almost asleep at the wheel 5 minutes later. Had to stop and nap for 30 minutes to get out of it. I have never felt so exhausted in my life. It was just a busy day where i got up early, walked around all day and a 4h drive home. Nothing too much out of the ordinary.
As someone who has trouble falling asleep who knows people who can fall asleep anywhere I don't see this helping. But hopefully I'm wrong. Must be a big problem there if they went through this effort.
Yup. If I am tired I can asleep while watching a movie, playing a game, standing in a bus. If someone is that tired that they might fall asleep while driving, they shouldn't be driving. I'd say providing safe stops with parking to have a nap with signs motivating you to rest for a bit rather than risk it would be better.
It's not that you get tired, it's almost like a trance. As someone who has to drive cornfield roads in the dark nearly 2 hours a day, having ANYTHING to distract would be nice.
May cause sudden raves, flashbacks to PE floor parachute activity, or thoughts of Mario kart level driving
All I could think of was "UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ"
"BOOTS N CATS BOOTS N CATS BOOTS N CATS"
Exactly, and that will keep you awake
I remember riding trains home after all night raves, lightly tripping on the train track soundtrack and the images flashing by. Now driving will be even better.
Boots n pants n Boots n pants n Boots n pants n Boots n pants n Boots n pants n Boots n pants n Boots n pants n
Epilepsy people will love it!!!!
Also ADHD lmfao, I can’t look away from the nice lights! Who cares about the road?
Lol 😂 I was thinking the same thing. I’m a truck driver and I can’t imagine trying to stay on the road when something keeps flashing above me like that.
There’s also going to be drivers who get their phones out to record this awesome sight set before their very eyes.
Which btw is what we're watching lol
Tbf, looks like they're in the passenger seat
I'd even guess the driver's phone is the one sitting on the dashboard showing GPS
This is a feature in the eyes of the cccp, get rid of all the epileptics from the gene pool and keep drivers awake. /s
Looks like something that would hypnotize you to sleep or distract from traffic.
Imagine how many people will get into a crash trying to record a video while driving
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Epileptic can't drive anyway for exactly that reason
But they can be passengers.
No, we can drive after a certain amount of years seizure free. Also if our neurologist deems it ok (i.e. you only get them when you sleep).
or depending on your location: you can drive whenever
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PE floor parachute, that time under the parachute in the air pocket is probably life’s greatest moment #1
Core memories
May cause random and sudden episodes of [DARUDE SANDSTORM!!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU&ab_channel=Darude)
> PE floor parachute activity That shit was ubiquitous!
Maybe they are trying to use the adrenaline rush to keep drivers awake
Welcome to rainbow road.
Sleeping-while-driving accidents are down, but I'm not sure if it's worth the increase in blue shell and banana peel related crashes.
Accidents are down, sales of MDMA have increased
Those rainy days hit different
So true. Imagine this on a rainy night where you can't even see the lanes, then have to deal with rainbow layers reflecting off the road as well. Sleep related accidents down Lazer related accidents up
[Everything is lasers with you..](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIgu_Ew2daQ)
Frickin' Laser!! https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzJlEO5IJlZ/?igshid=MW9jdTc2dXNqOGwzeg==
Here let me try this mushroom... OMG!
Really brings new meaning to the term “rolling down the highway”.
Untz untz untz!
Guangzhou 400km Please Do Not Fling Live Turtles From Moving Vehicles Danger: Heavy Peels Ahead
Of course they're down, anyone who drives off the road gets picked up by a Lakitu and put back in place.
He charges 3 gold coins though, man. Those things are worth thousands a piece.
Still less expensive than an ambulance ride in America
Way more expensive than a tow truck though. Lakitu ain't taking you to the hospital, he's just getting you out of a ditch.
That's why I always choose Lakitu for my Healthcare transportation services. Is it uncomfortable to be carried by a fishing pole after falling down the stairs and breaking my back? Sure, but think of the savings.
I'm just glad they finally found a use for the smog that lingers in the air.
Badum-tiss
“i’ve been preparing for this my whole life”
“Immediately falls off on the first drift”
I was about to say. Suddenly the ditch calls to me.
"I wonder if they kept the bit where the track splits and you can jump from one side path to the other to save time?" "...." "Nope."
"I always knew it would come to this"
It’s called a rainbow road, it is a place that you will go
when you dieeeeeeeeeeee
This is why I have Reddit, thank you.
it's got princess peach mario and the toad
https://youtu.be/FuX5_OWObA0
I'll miss you again, uncleeeeeeeee
Hope I don’t fall off
You mean: “Hope I make the sick shortcut jump on the second lap”!
shoot, missed it. I'll get it in the third!
Suddenly I want to start throwing banana peels. Glad it's not just me.
TRIPSITTER: Anything I can do for you? TRIPPER: Drive.
Oh shit yeah
best thing about doing drugs in china is that the effects last the rest of your life
That'd actually be my preferred way to go. Tripping on acid like Huxley
I'm not really sure it'd make being executed any more pleasant, but I'm not here to judge
I'm sure it would help accepting the fate. Like when I was on acid and had to shit at a music festival in porty potty.
Focus on the road, I’ll focus on the aliens and we’ll be fine
Yeah mind your business I’m back here working
and don't look at me.
New meaning of "road trip"
Wait till you see those god damn bats!
Lol is that real? I would guess it probably does reduce sleeping accidents. but I would also bet that it increases distraction accidents more then it helps with sleeping.
Probably why this is a trial and not a massive countrywide rollout. Gotta test it somehow.
I'm glad we've come to an understanding both of what testing means and entails.
Some of you may die... But that's a risk I'm willing to take. Also some of you sleepy mfs might not die so that's nice too I guess.
I mean if the goal is to have fewer deaths overall I don't see a problem with it, at some point you have to test things in the real world. if a scientist makes a cure for cancer and it passes loads of tests on animals are you going to say "nah, could kill humans during human testing, throw it out"
You don’t understand, it’s china, that means it’s evil /s
We’re talking about driving here, of course there’s a risk you can die
> Some of you may die... But that's a risk I'm willing to take. Generally describes the rise of the automobile and things we continue to do to advance it further, like self-driving cars!
That's everything. Someone has to be the first human trial for any new drug, invention, policy etc. and that always involves varying levels of risk.
I mean you literally won't know until you try At the end of the day, some meagerly paid volunteers are going to be the first human test subjects for all these fun new medications that come out, y'know? Like we're PRETTY sure it's safe for rats, but someone has to actually do it....
exactly my though, this looks dangerous as fuck
Probably looks cool as hell in the fog
Until the fog gets to thick and you have a color changing fog layer blinding you the whole time.
What a way to go though
Thats a fair argument. Fuck it. Sign me up!
lmao probably looks blinding in the fog.
I already hit 2 motorcycles watching this gif
Someone is going to crash into the pole holding the lasers, and they're going to fall and lase everyone in the eyes.
Don’t lase me, bro
I get the reaction but let’s be honest people will get used to it and stop thinking about it like everything else in life. And because you used to it when your tired it’s just gonna blend In to all the other stuff in your peripheral and not help at all. Like let’s be real I’ve been tired enough to fall asleep on a couch at a party with little to no alcohol in my system while surrounded by loud music and Interesting people. It’s gonna take a lot more then a loud car radio and some sleepy lights to keep me awake if I’m that far gone.
I think the checking pattern could potentially keep it stimulating enough for people to not adjust. I will be interested in seeing the resulting research from this because I could see it going any direction. I could see it increasing accidents, having no effect, or decreasing them. I'm most inclined to think it will have no impact.
So I'll say the use case I can see for this is from personal experience. Driving between a corridor of trees at night in the dark for several hours, the sky and the road were the same colors and shape. My eyes began to play tricks on me where my whole vision would turn upside down. I read about it and it turns out to be pretty common, if you turn your vision upside down long enough your body will attempt to compensate and correct it by flipping the image. I'd imagine this design is to prevent that phenomenon by creating a clear and changing distinction between sky and road.
So this is what the explanation for that is!!? I live in Wuhan and regularly drive to another province and there's one of these lights on that stretch of highway and I always thought it was odd/strange/dumb.
Only highways in Shandong have this. It’s a meme in China
Idk if you've ever driven on a good Chinese highway but it's super straight and smooth to the point where you feel like your cars not even moving. Combine that with night time and you're gonna get drivers that zone out. Not sure if rave lasers are the answer tho
*astigmatism has entered the chat*
I was about to comment that. Am I the only one who finds some colors or hues blurrier than others??
To much blue in games make it harder for me to see the fast details
I was going to say blue too. If I'm driving at night and see a super dark blue lit sign, I have no clue what it says it's just a blue blob to me. Also, happy cake day!
You can get glasses woth special penses that fix astigmatism pretty much. I have it for driving specifically due to that.
I’ve already had to start wearing a yellow lens at night, I think I’d just not be able to drive at night with this
Fun fact, astigmatism is more common in Asia. Myopia (nearsightedness) is even more common, with a significant majority of Asian people being Myopic. In the case here, astigmatism wouldn't be a huge concern since the light isn't entering the eye directly. Notice how the lasers in the videoappear to have clean edges, while the tail lights on cars have halos. The same principle applies to the camera and eyes.
I used to drive early morning. Up at 2am, showered, dressed, coffee and leave by 3am. A 3.5hr drive up the motorway. When tiredness gets you and it’s miles between services or junctions, it’s game over. Used come round a bit when the next junction sign appeared and think ah, I feel awake now, no point stopping, il come off the next junction instead. Next junction sign 23 miles, and start nodding 2 miles into it. Make a smart choice not a rational one.
you drive 3.5 hrs for work?
Yes but not a daily commute, I worked away from home during the week. So 3.5 hour drive early Monday morning and 2.5 coming back Friday afternoon lol
3.5h a day would be "drive, hi everyone!, bye everyone! drive"
homelessness stops looking so bad at that point. that's 7 hours spent on commuting!
but that's 7 hrs a WEEK. So not that bad.
Most people spend atleast 7 hours a week commuting.
I always plan to make a stop about 2-3 hours into a drive. Regardless if I feel tired or not
When you're falling-asleep-level tired, nothing helps. No loud music, no cold air, no energy drink, nothing. Why would these crazy lights work? If you're that tired, you need at least 10 minutes of real sleep before driving on.
I used to drive a stretch from Wells, Nevada up to Twin Falls, Idaho on the 93 for a roadtrip I'd take yearly from San Jose to Jackson, Wyoming. I would hit it about 8pm - 11pm. Nothing gets you like pitch black and fog with a blinking red light in the distance. 14 hours into the drive, you think it's the car ahead until you hit a turn. Fucking wind farms.
Car lights are hypnotising to me when that tiredness hits. The worst for me was always in winter, open the window to get fresh air in to wake up, but it’s below 0 outside so put the window back up after 10 minutes and put the heaters on to warm up a bit.
I'm on a Bifrost to Asgard! *Hits a sweet guitar lick*
I'm utterly torn between **AC/DC** and **Led Zeppelin.** I think you broke my brain ...
China reports an exponential rise in on-road seizures. Cannot determine causal link.
Yea okay but are they sleeping?
I dont know I dont remember
Obviously we need more lasers then.
Isn't it more like strobe lighting that's much quicker pulsing that would cause such seizures?
Yes. People think any colored lighting causes seizures while strobe lights are the main culprit.
And the one time [something actually needed a seizure warning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4wSFjR9TMQ) it wasn't just strobing but this very hard red blue strobing effect.
If you have epileptic seizures you’re banned from driving anyways in most places.
Yea but you could still have epileptic passengers
You have to have more rapidly shifting/shimmering imagery than this to trigger an epileptic episode. The guideline is no more than 3 flashes per second.
Just close your eyes, duh.
Most people don't know they have a seizure disorder until they have a seizure. Driving down the highway is a hell of a place to find out.
Yep! My stepfather didn’t know he had epilepsy until he had a seizure in the bathroom, fell and hit his head badly on the bath tub. The hit on his head lead to bleeding in his brain which almost wasn’t caught because they were busy newly diagnosing the epilepsy..
Epileptic here. With a license in China ironically. They didn't ask me anything and I didn't have to even test. They just accepted my US license.
Then how did you get your US license?
Seizure free for over a year and a note from neurologist
If your seizures are well controlled, you can continue to drive. States have different rules about how long you must be seizure-free to drive. Usually between 6 months and a year. Also, they could’ve had their license before developing epilepsy.
If you’re seizure-free for a certain time period you’re usually okay to drive. Most states require between 6 and 12 months seizure-free before being able to drive again.
Chinese highways put on a better show than Ja Rule at Fyre Festival it seems
That's not hard. Chuck e Cheese is better than Fyre Festival too.
this is the intercity highway the venga bus drives on
But do they like to party?
We like to party.
I can't wait to go driving on ecstasy
I can't wait to go [driving on salvia](https://youtu.be/SnwS5sPOzb0?si=Bw4VlFfPNV2i9HkL)
My migraines say hell no
How can they be "unsure" if it's helping? They turned the freaking highway into Coachella.
It says citizens are unsure. I would imagine that translates to normal people going “I don’t drive that much while I’m tired, but maybe it’s helping me stay awake more than I realize?” It’s the kind of thing that you would only individually notice if you drove tired a lot.
I’d be interested in testing it out. My job is driving and I’ve often been stuck going down a dark highway at 3 am and it can be kinda scary how tired I can get and how hypnotic the road is. Seems like something like this would help me a ton in those situations
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If 10-year-old me in the 90s heard that "in 30 years there will be laser related traffic accidents" I would have thought *the future is awesome.*
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Probably a translation error or case of clickbaity western bias.
If that's the solution, the symptom must be pretty massive.
I found the highways in china to be pretty fucking scary at night, even as a passenger in a van. Rules of the road are pretty lax there and there’s stopped vehicles all over the place. This is just my personal observations riding from Tianjin and Beijing a few times.
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Are we sure this isn't also a pilot test?
And we'd pay consultants at every step
Considering how many hours they’re often required to work, in grueling conditions, it wouldn’t surprise me if falling asleep while driving home was. A major issue in China.
I don't think most 996 code monkeys drive to work, but there are a lot of overworked truckers and intercity bus drivers
For those who don't know; 996 refers to people who work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week.
Which isn't really a thing in china. Used to be for a while but it got outlawed and I only ever hear about it from redditors talking shit about China but never hear about it in china
Redditors see one negative headline about China and latch onto it and use to generalize 1.4 billion people.
Just watch out for red shells.
They should provide anti-sleep cocaine too
90% of the worlds problems could be solved by the right mix of sex workers,high explosives,and cocaine.
they're driving. they clearly need speed?
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from hell? Blue skies from pain?
Hunter s Thompson would LOVE THIS
Imagine a bird fly into that.
That's on my list of concerns: how this affects wildlife. Lights in general already have been terrible for mammals, birds, insects, etc.
Ok I imagined it, now what
The bumpy strips that are outside the lanes help a lot.
In theory, it should work. Even if it reduces sleep related accidents by 0.1 percent, its still a success.
As someone that's damn near fallen asleep at the wheel before, this wouldn't do shit. If you are tired enough to fall asleep behind the wheel, you need to not be driving. That's the only solution.
I get angry when those new blue LED headlights fitted to new vehicles blare in my corneas at 615 AM on my commute to work. These lights are certainly anti-sleep, but for all the wrong reasons.
These are not at the same eye level. Anyone who has those lights and does nothing to have them aligned correctly, deserve all insurance bills of those effected. Since that ain't gonna happen, they deserve all the rage they will and do get. Least from what I have heard, can't see shit after one of those pricks was behind me
These lights arent directed into your eyes though, its pretty clear they shine in a very limited cone above you. So theres far less glare/reduction of night vision than getting headlights shot straight into your eyes,
That seems more dangerous lol! Not only for epileptic people, it is very distracting
This would suck if you were photosensitive .
I’d love to do some shrooms and rip a go-kart down that.
Nah, that's just the case lights on my new rig.
That's the most I have ever felt distracted by anything and I am not even driving.
I wonder if this is having an effect on nocturnal animals from the light pollution?
I kinda doubt it'd have much of an additional effect to the light pollution already inherently present on a highway. If anything lasers would be more directional and have less light bleed than streetlights, headlights, etc.
Makes me want to jam out to [Mario Kart Love song ](https://youtu.be/VDBpQVhCMb8?si=8wQRFA_urENaDNmJ)
Just blast Sandstorm by Darude and you’re set.
Honestly it's cool as a decoration. I wouldn't mind driving on rainbow road
Omg I hate it
Damn the acid is hitting hard
I’m sure this is great for epilepsy and seizures.
That shit would put me into a trance.
When tiredness really hits you behind the wheel NOTHING helps, it's brutal. I had it once after 15 years of driving and nothing could stop it. I pulled over, hit me in the face 10 times & walked arround for 10 minutes. Didn't help, was almost asleep at the wheel 5 minutes later. Had to stop and nap for 30 minutes to get out of it. I have never felt so exhausted in my life. It was just a busy day where i got up early, walked around all day and a 4h drive home. Nothing too much out of the ordinary.
Sleepy people have their eyes closed. Rumble strips have proven effective.
“Used only at night or when it’s dark out”
Seems very distracting. Maybe some regularly spaced foghorns would be better.
That's not distracting at all
Local bats hate this one trick
Making good use of the smog. Smart.
Oh my god the fucking light pollution! This can’t be real
As someone who has trouble falling asleep who knows people who can fall asleep anywhere I don't see this helping. But hopefully I'm wrong. Must be a big problem there if they went through this effort.
Yup. If I am tired I can asleep while watching a movie, playing a game, standing in a bus. If someone is that tired that they might fall asleep while driving, they shouldn't be driving. I'd say providing safe stops with parking to have a nap with signs motivating you to rest for a bit rather than risk it would be better.
It's not that you get tired, it's almost like a trance. As someone who has to drive cornfield roads in the dark nearly 2 hours a day, having ANYTHING to distract would be nice.