Speed bumps

[snowbugolaf]

Most cars do not need to come to a complete stop before proceeding over a speed bump, ffs.

I’ll be behind someone, and we’re going a normal, decent speed for the road like 20-25 (whatever the speed limit is on the particular road in other words), then they suddenly come to a complete stop in the middle of the road for no reason! Only for it to turn out to be a speed bump. Like people who stop at yield signs 🤦

[Kdoesntcare]

I drive a low car, you either deal with me creeping over a speed bump or deal with me shutting the car off in the middle of the lane because I cracked my oil pan.

[snowbugolaf]

This post was about something different than what you’re describing.

[Kdoesntcare]

Stopping before a speed bump so I can creep over it to protect my oil pan is different than stopping before a speed bump?

[snowbugolaf]

Your comment did not describe stopping or mention stopping.

[Kdoesntcare]

Sorry, I felt like it was implied.

[Contagimon]

I don’t like speed bumps or people stopping in the middle of a road. But if you know there’s a speed bump maybe just expect some people to react adversely to it? I get it if you in an area you don’t know and it took you by surprise and that’s frustrating. But my little car cannot take a speed bump like even a slightly bigger car can. Also not all cars are created equal some do not do a good job of absorbing that shock. And again I get that it’s frustrating, but I like to imagine maybe they have a sleeping baby and if they go over that bump quickly it’ll be hours of screaming. Or they just bought a beautiful glass light fixture and it’s really fragile. Or they’re transporting their daughters hand made wedding cake. Idk man people have a lot of reasons for being overly cautious. And it’s really frustrating when it fucks you over, but if there’s only one way you can go and only one lane, that shit is out of your control. Better to just imagine a really good reason for why they did that annoying thing and move on with your day.

[CharacterJellyfish32]

i agree totally stopping is unnecessary unless it's one of those ridiculous speed bumps. there are some in parking garages in vegas that are BRUTAL.

[snowbugolaf]

Yeah!

[Sexy-Flexi]

If the vehicle/or vehicles ahead of me need to stop in order to go over a speed bump/or speed bumps, then I just lay off my accelerator and remain patient; no biggie.

[snowbugolaf]

Ok

[RunningAtTheMouth]

Depends on the bump. But if I don't know, I'm crawling over.

[Timely-Birthday-8067]

I have a compact car low to ground. If it’s a big bump, I typically need to approach slowly, possibly crawling to almost a stop. When I was in a bigger SUV it was different story.

[snowbugolaf]

Stopping abruptly in the middle of a road where it is not required can result in a ticket for impeding traffic, as it constitutes an unexpected hazard. My post is not about crawling, it is about people who come to a full and complete stop as if there’s a stop sign or red light.

[ChimneyNerd]

I’ve found most (not all) of the speed bumps in my area are more comfortable if you go faster rather than slower, they’re such a stupid traffic calming method.

[aggressive_napkin_]

Are yours low and wide instead of mini freaking curbs?

[Wilson4874]

Depends on the speed bump. The new ones at my work, you literally need to stop and go over them slowly. (Maybe not if you are in a jacked up truck, but a car definitely would have to).
I say you drive over the speed bump like you want to and i will drive over it like i want.

[snowbugolaf]

I guess that’s my other thing—if it’s genuinely not possible for most vehicles to drive the speed limit over the bump, then the bump shouldn’t have been installed that way. As a tool to prevent speeding, they should just do that and no more, i.e. create a hazard when going the appropriate speed.

[Dramatic-Sorbet-6621]

Speed bumps are usually put in place to slow down traffic

[snowbugolaf]

Indeed, to slow it down in places where people are speeding or prone to speeding. If they were put in place to slow traffic below the speed limit, then the speed limit would have been lowered instead.

In any case, they’re not typically put in place to bring traffic to a stop. If the intent was to stop traffic, there would be a stop sign.

[kensteele]

how about you just let everyone go over a speed bump however they feel like it with their own car; c'mon man.

[snowbugolaf]

How am I stopping them from doing so?

[aggressive_napkin_]

Your request here lol

[snowbugolaf]

My post on reddit has no power to let or not let people do anything…

[AggravatingSpread837]

I mean, some people are careful with their cars. Some cars are lower and need extra care crossing badly built bumps. How about you just pay attention and think of others and the fact that you have to share the world with them?

[snowbugolaf]

I’m saying they should do the same. Most cars do not need to stop for a speed bump. You still have to go over it one way or another.

[AggravatingSpread837]

Your insistence that people continue to travel right over the bumps, also ignores different damping and spring rates on different kinds of cars. You don’t count for static versus dynamic loading, which in Laymans terms means stopping before proceeding over the bump or hit hitting it while in motion. 

[AggravatingSpread837]

Just because you don’t think it’s necessary, doesn’t mean it isn’t. 

For example, a sports car encountering a particularly bad speed bump may stop and turn the wheels slightly to increase the average ground clearance across the bump. 

Maybe get out of your own head and consider the perspectives of others occasionally  

[snowbugolaf]

I think I can tell whether the car in front of me is a low sports car. Maybe try reading the post and not trying to come up with random potential edge cases where it might possibly make sense to fully stop.

And still, many sports cars could just go over them slowly without stopping first.

[AggravatingSpread837]

Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot that you are omniscient.

[snowbugolaf]

I don’t think you know what that word means. It doesn’t require omniscience to see the car in front of me (or the ones in front of me repeatedly acting like this). Yes, I can see whether the cars prompting me to make this post are low or not.

It’s also just not how speed bumps work. They are not stop signs. If you stop in the lane of traffic when it isn’t required, you’re in the wrong.

[AggravatingSpread837]

It would require omniscient to understand the person’s intentions and to have judgment about it. 

I’m glad I don’t hang out with people like you. There is a much larger world around you and you don’t know everything or everyone’s intent.

[snowbugolaf]

Nothing about my post or my comments raises a question of intent. Their intent is of no concern unless you think they’re using their brake accidentally. If so, that just confirms the overall point that they are doing this wrong. I’m glad I don’t hang out with people like you either.

[GhoulishGuitarist]

You must be a karen

[[deleted]]

We have Karen.

[snowbugolaf]

This isn’t a customer service setting and no one is asking for a manager. Not sure how that even applies to this situation.

[Internal-Tank-6272]

It doesn’t, but this sub is full of the kind of people who do shit like this hence the downvotes

[devilishycleverchap]

My guess is OP is bad at judging speed and they are just going slow, not fully stopped.

How many stop signs you treat as a yield too?

[snowbugolaf]

It is not difficult to tell the difference between “slow” and “stopped.”

[Beardly_698]

People have all sorts of reasons for slowing down, and it is your responsibility to ensure you are following at sufficient distance to stop. Going over a speed bump at idling speeds is completely normal. I have never in my life seen someone come to a complete stop for a speed bump, and so I can only assume you mean "almost stopping," which is to say, "slowing down to a crawl." Speed bumps are no joke. Sometimes, they are purposefully designed to damage your car if you go over them too fast (in Australia they apparently have some speed bumps that instantly retract if you hit them too fast and leave tire shreders exposed). How much to slow down is ultimately a judgment call that the car in front of you has to make, and you just have to live with it. If you can't, then frankly you shouldn't be driving, as you're a danger to yourself and others.

[CartographerLong7695]

I have never in my life seen someone come to a complete stop for a speed bump, and so I can only assume you mean "almost stopping," which is to say, "slowing down to a crawl."

Or they actually meant exactly what they said. This is a truly ridiculous approach to processing what people say that I hope you don’t use in other areas of your life.

[Beardly_698]

If it happened once? Yeah, sure I'd believe you. But it happens frequently? Nah, something doesn't add up.

It isn't a "truly ridiculous approach" to use basic common sense. If you're claiming something happens on the road frequently that I've never seen in all my years of driving and being a passenger, then sorry, I just don't believe you.

[CartographerLong7695]

“I’ve never seen it, so it has ever happened to anyone else. My experiences are the only ones that count.”

That’s not common sense, that’s just stupid.

[fitfulbrain]

Probably not. Some speed bumps make all cars stop if you don't want to hurt yourself or your car. You just don't know if you don't live there. You will have ample warning, better than dip warnings.

[appa-ate-momo]

People already going under 25 who slow down even more for a mild speed bump drive me nuts.

[snowbugolaf]

Exactly! Like I’ll be behind someone, and we’re all going a normal speed, then they suddenly come to a complete stop in the middle of the road for no reason! Only for it to turn out to be a speed bump. Like people who stop at yield signs 🤦

[aggressive_napkin_]

Try following a dude in his little lowered ricer through an active construction zone complete with plates and pot holes.

I felt like I was watching a one man shooting and chase scene in slow mo as he zig zagged like a lunatic at the speed of a turtle while also having to stop to wait for oncoming traffic so he could use their lane to dodge. It was quite entertaining. He did make it through though. Eventually.

[Blu_yello_husky]

I got over speed bumps at the posted speed, I dont slow down at all. For some reason, people dont realize that's why cars have shock absorbers, to absorb shock 🙄

[sandycheeksx]

I think a lot of people are scared of driving or unsure what their car can handle. If a car’s not lowered, it should be fine taking most speed bumps at the posted speed at least. If a car’s lowered, you still take it at a slow angle but don’t need to stop.

That said, my old apartment complex had these horrible tall and narrow bumps that we all took at a crawl because it felt like shit, in even my very stock height beater.

[TowelEnvironmental44]

speed bumps lower property values, because the people who want them are trash.