Yeah, in NZ they use a lot of wire based barriers to slow you / stop you while sacrificially dispersing your energy by propagating failure along the barrier. We

Yeah, in NZ they use a lot of wire based barriers to slow you / stop you while sacrificially dispersing your energy by propagating failure along the barrier. We like to use them to prevent (or minimise the impact of) the head-on collisions our two lane main highways often lead to. They're far cheaper to install and repair than other forms, and easy and fast to fix after an impact, but have a significant caveat that they'll mince you up if you're a motorcyclist who hits them, other types of barriers aren't exactly great for riders either but they offer more chance of survival than the wire barriers, to the extent that riders know the wired ones as cheese graters.