In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road

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• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They tried this in the states, but they were riddled with bulletholes and cost too much to replace. They went back to real children, for economic and cultural reasons.

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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damn, that went dark fast.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For the children, too

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Should’ve made them out of tannerite

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  • PlaneMaker@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The United…

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Great, condition drivera to ignore children because "Mon dieu! Another one of those fakes!"

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  • Einskjaldi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s why you have to put real children in there randomly so it’s a schrodinger paradox where you don’t know if there’s something living in there until you hit it.

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No they need to make these imposters into lifelike robots that actually run out in traffic and cause accidents.

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  • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah it’s obvious the mannequin can’t smoke.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Same in Korea, but it’s actually effective:

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah. Good luck running a red light with those placed at the intersection…

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    • Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean, you can run it… Once.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dang. French kids are weird looking

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  • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The French are weird looking. (I’m jking)

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes. Jkng

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• Seimhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A good traffic management plan acknowledges that when child predators slow down to look, it slows everyone else down too. /s

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What will happen is people will tune them out. And real children too.

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• CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Oklahoma, people put deer statues by the highway for this effect.

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  • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Works great, until people get so used to them that they ignore real children and deer.

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    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yup! Although the deer don’t get ignored for too long, a real one will be along soon enough to throw themselves across your hood.

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• pasdechance@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen one yet. Maybe they don’t use them in every part of France?

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  • Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve seen a few of them, in different regions i think, but definitely not in every town, and in my experience it’s more of a rural village with a big road passing through thing.

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  • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i mean there only has to be one for this to technically be true

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That fake child is ugly. It would be wrong not to speed up.

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• nexttech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just increase the fines for going over the speed limit

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • nexttech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Interesting , why do you that?

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tie them to income or wealth instead.

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    • nexttech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tie what ? the kids ?

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  • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s the point when those are never enforced? Enforcement of trafic law is much more important than the concrete punishment. As you said yourself, being able to pay a fine does not mean you want to receive one.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is way stupider than tipping.

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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That little fucker wants to get hit, you can tell.

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Every muscle in my body would be screaming to swerve the car into that monstrosity. Imagine seeing it at night.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Waymos hate this one trick.

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