Learner Driver Hub - FUN STUFF

     IDEA - COLOUR CODE SPEED LIMITS

What's the speed limit here?

Speed limits change very quickly. If a motorist is looking away just for a moment, or a truck obscures vision just at the wrong moment, they may miss the speed limit sign altogether.

In the Adelaide metropolitan area, where we are based, it can be very confusing, possibly driving through six different speed zones, in only a few kilometers: From 25 km/h in a school zone ranging to 90 km/h on major arterial routes.

Without realizing, even conscientious drivers could be breaking the speed limit and paying a heavy fine. There has to be an easier way! 

We may have found one?  

WHY NOT paint every tenth center-line a different color to white, if the speed limit is not the default 50 or 60 km/h? (See diagram on right).

The colour of these center lines would serve as a constant reminder what speed limit  applies on a particular stretch of road, where the speed is not  the default speed.

This proposal only requires 3 colours  - red, green and yellow. Too many colours would be confusing. Only every 10th line or so needs to be over painted to colour-code.

If there is a continuous center line, the colour code could be over-painted, for a meter or so, every thirty meters or so. It would serve the same purpose - to remind motorists what speed limit applies on any particular stretch of road.

Everyone knows the colours already

Red 90

Amber 80

Green 70

Only metropolitan streets, where a speed other than the default applies, need be colour-coded up to 90 km/h. On country roads the default limit applies. 

There is another aspect to this proposal: If a default zone, say 60 km/h was safe to increase the limit to 70 km/h for only a short distance, painted green lines for that section of road would allow the extra 10 km/h legally.

It is often on these sections of road, where there are no driveways and side streets and nothing to obstruct visibility, when motorists unwittingly step over the legal speed limit.

The idea is not to do away with traditional speed signs. This colour-coding idea is meant to be an additional help to motorists, who are less likely caught speeding, because they will constantly be reminded what speed zone they are driving in.

GOT A ROAD SAFETY IDEA - EMAIL US! 

 

More FUN Stuff

EMAIL

HOME

Please note: Traffic regulations may vary in your part of the world. We recommend you use our information, where possible, in conjunction with a professional instructor. 

Road Safety by Dieter Fischer 2001 - Learner Driver Hub 2020