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I love stories of people thoughtfully doing their jobs and having huge life saving impact like this. I was saying to my wife on a recent drive, that there's so
by xyzelement 6y ago
I love stories of people thoughtfully doing their jobs and having huge life saving impact like this.
I was saying to my wife on a recent drive, that there's some civil engineer somewhere who figured out you can embed those little light reflectors into highway lane markets, and some other engineer who figured out those perpendicular cuts in the asphalt that vibrate your car before you run off the road.
Both of these probably naturally arose in the context of their work, and both of these things passively save hundreds of lives daily.
- Stratoscope 6y agoFor the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botts%27_dots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botts%27_dots (named after Elbert Dysart Botts) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_pavement_marker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_pavement_marker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_strip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_strip
- dingsbumps 6y agoI recently listened to an interesting episode about those reflectors on the 99 Percent Invisible podcast. This [1] is an associated article on their site that seems to have similar content to the episode I listened to. [1] https://99percentinvisible.org/article/decoding-cats-eyes-global-color-guide-reflective-road-markers/ https://99percentinvisible.org/article/decoding-cats-eyes-gl...