SLEEPING POLICEMAN
Ina-Marie von Mohl, Andreas Schöller, Robert Korn, Christian Dobbert
This is how speed monitoring will become superfluous: SLEEPING POLICEMAN is based on an interactive feedback system between street and driver. An elastic, deformable barrier is embedded in the street. Its hardness adapts to the respective impact velocity. If approached slowly at an appropriate speed, the barrier yields and can be passed without being noticed. If a vehicle is too fast the material structure hardens. The consequence: A distinctly perceptible jolt for both driver and vehicle.
The jury's verdict: "SLEEPING POLICEMAN takes existing systems to the next level in a technically quite elaborate way. The design is more of a concept than an actual "blueprint", an intellectual exercise requiring materials that have yet to be developed."
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