This better be a troll post

Why?

Did you stop in the middle of the road to take the picture? At least it achieved its purpose of slowing you down.

A shitty speed bump, but you'll be fine because you don't drive too fast, do you?

Please tell us you are not actually driving a car.

Never expected to see a clemmons neighbor posting on Lemmy tbh

Where is it? I see flat road

Could be a screenshot from a dash cam

It’s camouflaged

They do often force people to go way under the speed limit. The thing being visible is an additional indicator that you should take it extra slow and careful here.

I stopped and took a picture because it's not a traffic road. Pretty deserted after school drop off time.

Yeah it's not a traffic road and is entirely deserted after school drop off times.

Oh wow, I was just wondering the other day if anybody from NC was on Lemmy. Didn't expect somebody from Clemmons! Howdy neighbor!

Yeah but diving slow is not the same as crawling over a speed bump. I'm used to this road after so many years, but I've always wanted to post it here.

Exactly

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Try hitting one of those at 25mph.

I feel like this is a milestone interaction for Lemmy. Used to be surprisingly common on Reddit, but I don’t think I’ve even seen it here before…

I can't see it

It's right behind you now!

It's right across the road here. It blends in with the shadows/sunrays, hence "camouflaged".

Ha! I thought it was in one of the closer sun beams.

Drive around mexico and these things are everywhere. Called topes. Really wakes ya up when you hit one going forty mph lol

Wait...is the speed bump behind me right now?

They do often force people to go way under the speed limit.

Which is often the wrong thing to do.

Your car's suspension needs force to do its job. If you idle over a bump, that force is applied on the far side of the bump when you drop, making it bouncy.

If you go over it at a reasonable speed, the force is applied on the near side of the bump, compressing the shocks, so all it needs to do is return to normal on the far side.

Its only camouflaged for like 15 mins per day. Only when the sun stands exactly like that.

I literally couldn't find it until I zoomed in a lot. That's pretty bad.

Speed bumps where I'm from are usually wider and clearly marked, similar to this picture I found online:

I might be guessing incorrectly, but it feels like users here don’t post personal pictures as much (for a variety of good reasons). So this kind of recognition isn’t as common.

Some of the local communities are more bustling than others though!

Nah, it depends on the speed bump. The one in front of my old house had scrapes in front and behind because you could definitely not take it at the speed limit. Locals knew that and crept over it, non locals often went THUNK.

You're right, I'm pretty sure we're all here for some level anonymity.

Looks like a pretty standard sausage type speed bump, maybe a bit worn?

Is it painted grey or something?

It's about the fourth lighter stripe in front of the car.
It looks like a sun stripe.

Sometimes speed bumps are pretty bad even when you drive under the limit.

I could see it in the thumbnail on my phone. It was so obvious I spent another minute staring at the foreground of the photo looking for an actual hidden speed bump lol. Different story in a vehicle moving 25+ when you're not specifically told to look for it though.

Spray paint a dick on it and it'll be repainted within a week

scraping noises intensify

Exactly at school drop off times

No, it's yellow, blending perfectly with the sun rays during school drop off times

After probably getting thrown like a bronc rider, bottoming out on it, blowing their shocks out, and shaking every screw loose in the vehicle, I'd like to document the crime too.

Ooh, I see the mildly infuriating part now. Just nature being nature, not that they maliciously tried to hide it! 😅

Those ones actually work better. The short, sharp shock ones can be hit at speed if you have a good suspension. The slow ones like that will lift the rear end off the ground if you go too fast, they're way more effective.

The effective term, at least in Southern California for the low long ones are 'humps' as opposed to the short tall 'speed bumps'.

Thank you
Jeez that's sneaky

God bless SPEED HUMP signs. They give college kids something to steal and decorate their dorm rooms with.

more infuriated by them being called speed bumps while making you slower?!?! wtf

Google Maps street view shows it painted yellow in 2023. The town needs to get busy and repaint it.

I see it now. I added a red circle, but for some reason i keep getting errors trying to post the picture.

Probably a lemmy issue, if you saved the edited picture in the same format as the original. Some image programs change the format when you save.

Depending on the party, there will also be speed bumps involved

If they would make the bumps go with the road you'd be able to just take your hands off the wheel and the road would keep you in the groove. Real shame the way these so called 'speed' bumps have been implemented.

There are also "speed tables" that are even longer and are flat-topped with sloped sides, along with "raised intersections" which are speed tables that take up the entire intersection space.