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Why the ginormous speed bumps in parking lots?

SSSnail

SSSnail

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I just don't get it, I understand the need for the speed bumps in parking lot, but the huginormous ones that I need a truck to get over? Come on!

Whoever thought it was a good idea to put these freaking HUGE ASS speed bumps in these parking lots needs to have their spleen poked.

I think they should have a standardized height and width for speed bumps, they're getting out of hands. Next, you'd need a gate for these speed bumps.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Because some idiots never seem to learn that >10 miles an hour is too fast for a parking lot.
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You don't quite get it, or perhaps didn't read my OP. I know why there are speed bumps in parking lots, just don't understand the REALLY BIG ONES that would scrape my car's bottom doesn't matter what speed I'm going over. Are they really necessary?
 
Originally posted by: SSSnail
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Because some idiots never seem to learn that >10 miles an hour is too fast for a parking lot.
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You don't quite get it, or perhaps didn't read my OP. I know why there are speed bumps in parking lots, just don't understand the REALLY BIG ONES that would scrape my car's bottom doesn't matter what speed I'm going over. Are they really necessary?
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So, leave the lowered ricer at home and walk? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Because some idiots never seem to learn that >10 miles an hour is too fast for a parking lot.
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That is why speedbumps exist, but many of them are excessive. I drive a pickup (which has a stiffer suspension than most passenger cars) and they are oftentimes brutal. It is ridiculous to have to slow to a LITERAL crawl to get over one...and then have to go over another eight to get through a parking lot.

Edit: I think the real reason that the large ones exist is the lack of laws regarding them and the fact that it is going to be near impossible to get the stores to pay for damage to your vehicle.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: SSSnail
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Because some idiots never seem to learn that >10 miles an hour is too fast for a parking lot.
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You don't quite get it, or perhaps didn't read my OP. I know why there are speed bumps in parking lots, just don't understand the REALLY BIG ONES that would scrape my car's bottom doesn't matter what speed I'm going over. Are they really necessary?
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So, leave the lowered ricer at home and walk? 🙂
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My car comes lowered, and I wouldn't classified it as rice. 😉
 
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Because some idiots never seem to learn that >10 miles an hour is too fast for a parking lot.
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That is why speedbumps exist, but many of them are excessive. I drive a pickup (which has a stiffer suspension than most passenger cars) and they are oftentimes brutal. It is ridiculous to have to slow to a LITERAL crawl to get over one...and then have to go over another eight to get through a parking lot.
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Sounds like the speed bumps are working. Also if you go over them at an angle you don't have to slow down to a crawl.
 
7.5mph is the calculated speed at which you can knock over a pedestrian and not hurt them. technically. i was told that tidbit after being "talked to" after going 27mph in a deserted parking lot at a nuclear power plant
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: SSSnail
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Because some idiots never seem to learn that >10 miles an hour is too fast for a parking lot.
Click to expand...

You don't quite get it, or perhaps didn't read my OP. I know why there are speed bumps in parking lots, just don't understand the REALLY BIG ONES that would scrape my car's bottom doesn't matter what speed I'm going over. Are they really necessary?
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So, leave the lowered ricer at home and walk? 🙂
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I shouldn't have to drive my truck to the grocery store, but I often do because my wife's stock Corolla scrapes on every bump in the lot... :roll:
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: MrPickins
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Because some idiots never seem to learn that >10 miles an hour is too fast for a parking lot.
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So we make 0mph the only acceptable speed?
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What part of greater than didn't you understand? 🙂
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Which part of "some cars can't easily make it over the obscenely large speed bumps at any speed" didn't you understand?

Stop with the smiles, you're not winning any friends.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Because some idiots never seem to learn that >10 miles an hour is too fast for a parking lot.
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That is why speedbumps exist, but many of them are excessive. I drive a pickup (which has a stiffer suspension than most passenger cars) and they are oftentimes brutal. It is ridiculous to have to slow to a LITERAL crawl to get over one...and then have to go over another eight to get through a parking lot.
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Sounds like the speed bumps are working. Also if you go over them at an angle you don't have to slow down to a crawl.
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You can't go over them at an angle without swerving like a dumbass. And going at any real speed is likely to damage a vehicle. If the safe speed is 10mph there is no reason to limit you to 2mph.
 
have seen some pretty large ones (distance & height-wise) the same color as the road in Brooklyn residential streets... these streets are one-way, one-lane with parked cars on either side... Crooklyn-ites may have been speeding down these streets like madmen... pretty nuts.
 
I felt sorry for the guy who scraped his BMW 7 on one of them. I think they just don't know how big it really is.
 
I like speed bumps, big ones and small ones. I live on a short side street behind college central on one side and gang HQ on the other. Prior to a ginormous speed bump in front of my house, you had idiots whipping past my driveway 24 hours a day at 50 mph.
 
Originally posted by: skace
Now, are the reverse speed bumps (speed dips?) better or worse for your car?
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I think it depends on the size of your tires and suspension. I have truck tires on my truck (265/70/16) and the ones they use here for drainage are brutal at any speed. I have driven a car across them and barely noticed.
 
Originally posted by: skace
Now, are the reverse speed bumps (speed dips?) better or worse for your car?
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I don't think the dips are intentionally used to curb speeding, more for drainage. It really sucks that I absolutely have to crawl over just about anything on the road.
 
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