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How bloody stupid! Imagine the damage done to a vehicle dropping suddenly into what amounts to a lane-wide pothole. Even if it was only a blown tyre, the sudden loss of control could prove fatal.

Could be fake but certainly plausible and totally in character.

He's NOT the Kind of Person I would like to see in Power. Has NEVER appealed to Me. The arguments He put up for Brexit were well short of Honest. Nev

There's NO EASY way. Nev

I think the drop is quite small and probably no more hazardous than hitting a normal speed bump at high speed. Apparently, they are used in Sweden, with one of the benefits being that they are not triggered by emergency vehicles, which I guess is a great benefit. All in all, though, I think it's probably too expensive to install and maintain. Apparently, they are being used overseas. https://www.york.gov.uk/downloads/file/2037/annex-b-actihump-leaflet

The "negative speed bump" idea may be a little overly complex, as it relies on radar. I guess if the radar fails, it stops working.

While we've been concentrating on the orange bull in the diplomatic china shop, there's another rabid right-winger causing havoc in the UK. Despite being the English equivalent of Pauline Hanson, and being a major force in Brexit which the majority of poms now feel some regret for, this idiot is polling high enough for the words "possible future prime minister" to be muttered adjacent to his name. There have been several articles recently about people's recollections of him at school, which he is attempting to deny, obfuscate and minimize. This is one ... Have a read and tell me whether this sounds like a suitable leader of old Blighty. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/25/dont-believe-nigel-farage-denials-targeted-me-for-being-jewish-and-it-hurt

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3725291901098847

Sadly, recent years have seen our Aunte turning more Merdokian. There are numerous poorly researched opinionised news articles. Disenfranchised news consumers turn to social media in search of confirmation of facts (tru facts, not trumpfarts). Then they get caught up in all kinds of semilogical misinformation from glib clickbait heros. No wonder so many people end up trapped by popular social media.

The ABC, Peter. And with the application of common sense, the Guardian.

Practically All of them now use High Tensile steel which often cannot be satisfactorily repaired IF it's creased. Nev

Further to vehicle crash safety: Last night I was talking with a Road Crash guy (he's the one who operates 'jaws of life' to cut trapped folk out of crashed cars). His hates those European cars - they are much harder to cut up! Much tougher reinforcement is built into them - sometimes it breaks the jaws. I admit he didn't comment on chinese cars.

Aaah, but isn't Drive.com owned by Merdok? Besides, how much are ANCAP safety ratings depending on chinese chip manufacturing? Will they still be safe when the next software update is rolled out? I want to believe it but why should I? I'll get my hat.....

Very possible. I found it in an echo chamber. Do we have any way to find truth tgese days?

Bring in "SLAM NO TRUMPS". Save America. Time is running out. Nev

They are hard on your Back. Nev

Must be fake news. The Trump family has raked in hundreds of millions during his reign.

Sounds like an inappropriate use of Technology when speed bumps do the job adequately or at least no less inadequately

Red, the only "negative speed bump" FB news article that I can find, is from 2018 - and the news article says they were "being trialled". I have never seen these things in Perth, so I guess the trial was possibly an expensive flop. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155643410529072

I used to worry about Donold. Then I thought about Don Jr. I really hope this isn't developing into a dynasty..... Yeah, no matter how bad everything gets, things can always get worse.