@dc-united: Beanie babies I think.

Xavoc

gizmodo is no longer a gadget guide, its like digg with editors now.

otis123

@Xavoc:

A random guess here, but was the view through the rear window of the car at least 20% obscured by collectible figurines?

dc-united

this is on a highway? no wonder traffic sucks in china oncoming traffic share the lane, but it looks like if you have a bike you can take the straight and more narrow way on a dirt path once this things has a pile up.

purple-pillows

@Xavoc:
my first wife was driving my 79 f150, when she ran into a concrete light stand at the post office. not so much as a i'm sorry i hurt your truck, let me get you a new fender and bumper. that's one of the main reasons she is my ex-wife now.
although, she still is a good girlfriend, i just don't let her drive my car, or truck.

godwhacker

Sooooo, let me get this straight, the asians happily motor along until they reach this, slow down so they don't smash their car, go the 100 feet or so, then continue with their adrenaline fueled high speed cruise? Ingenious. Now at least the Chinese government can say their drivers speed, on average, 100 ft less then the rest of the world's drivers.

Duckspwn

Oh, those silly Chinese....never cease to amaze me.

This looks like it's straight out of the movie, "The Fast and Furious 4"

sgt_sm00th

looks like my mini cooper might fit the right side lane where the motorcycle pass...I can still speed. Yes!

rjbuddyboi

@Xavoc: (....sings) ...when I think of the cars my Dixie Wrecked

Namster

Looks like they turned a two-lane road into a one-lane road through it. That is just plain stupid. They could just threaten to shoot people who speed instead. It is China after all. Human rights don't mean shit there.

thetunecatt

@Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine: There are many reasons why she's an ex. The final nail in the coffin was when mutual friends of ours said to me (As in both the male and female half of the couple), "Dude, it looks like Disney and Precious Moments vomited on your mantel." The mantel was 12' wide, and 3' deep...

Xavoc

What if a firetruck needs to go through this thing?

stackedrecords

This is an automotive River of Pain.

scarbrtj

@Xavoc: But...it's still a joy to me to watch women drive, if you can call it that!

"just the ex wife, who manages to destroy/lose/damage everything she owns."

Is that why she's your ex?

Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine

@GiltProto: Do regular speed bumps inspire you to a similar philosophical and political conclusions, or just the wavy kinds in other countries?

mildretard

Erm, Lombard Street, except no slope, longer, and way uglier?

theimmc

@Lev_Astov: That's because the cars have shaved portions of the concrete off.

Xavoc

A hummer could ride on top of the waves, Bigfoot could ride on top of the Hummer, God can ride on top of everything, but could he make a speed bump so big, that even he couldn't speed over it? This post follows much like a wikipedia search.
[imgs.xkcd.com]

jkr's bold comment

Wow, that's ridiculous. I love how scratched up the sides of it are, and how poorly constructed it is. Look at the complete lack of straight lines!

Lev_Astov

@Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine: Eh, wasn't picking on women. Just the ex wife, who manages to destroy/lose/damage everything she owns. Her driving frightened me. A lot! And I'm typically that calm zen-state passenger.

Xavoc

stop, stop Oh S********iiiiiiii*T.

@mildretard: it is applied technology to reduce human stupidity, its kinda gizmodic to my taste.

dysthymia

Ah yes, the socialist utopia. Where everyone is forced to endure the equality of misery.

GiltProto

@Xavoc: LMAOOOOOOOOOOO. That made me laugh the hardest today. AHH, the joy of watching women who can't drive.

Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine

How does water drain out in the rain, or does this become a automobile lap pool?

JBKing

My ex wife's car wouldn't survive that, even for one trip. Then again, this is the person who hit a telephone pole head on, driver's side of the bumper, making a right turn from a dead stop. And the pole was 8' from the right-hand side of the road.

Xavoc

you mean a way to better an asians driving skills?!
wow...I AM IMPRESSED!

Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine

I give up. The gizmo is where?

mildretard

If this thing could pop out of the ground during already low traffic hours, I'd say go for it. Thanks to Brownian motion speed bumps they've made an infinitely long highway.

Human Bomb

Slowing asian drivers down? Man, this world is changing too fast for me.

dna

I have an urge to go there with a 120+ cc Go Kart.

quadrain61

Not quite as draconian, but they do the same kind of thing on some side streets in Annapolis. Posts and curbs are set in the pavement on opposite sides of the street. They're staggered, forcing you to serpentine your way through them. You couldn't speed if you tried.

dc-united

Asking for a Tokyo-Drift moment.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Except with the Chinese "kung-fu fighting, fast as lightening" reflexes they're able to still speed through...

Noobs-R-Us

what about a car or truck with a trailer?

DoPeY5007

@BiZarRroBALlmeR: yeah, just like Autopia at Disneyland.

PunksUndead

hm this is not very smart.....

vgart

So what if an ambulance need to pass with an injured on-board ??? FAAAASSTEEEN YOUR SEEAABELTS ! ? ! ooops, we forgot that ! !

Mannyatic

Sponsored by the Shangxi Auto Body Works Council.

SeattleTed

@BiZarRroBALlmeR: Ahhh! Autopia!

ripfire

Luge... it's an Olympics thing.

frigg

Once your in, you can take your hands off the wheel and just let the barrier direct you.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

Feng Shui demanded a curvy river in the middle of that road, and so it was.

One of this days, when I'm back home, I'll take pics of what people in Paraguay uses to slow the waves of motorbikes that cross the borders filled with contraband.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Just some interesting observations from my trip to China this spring.
Emergency vehicles in China do not go any faster than anyone else.
Horns are used to notify people of your location, not to express anger. People constantly passed on the right and beeped their horn to let the other driver know they were there.
Drivers actually looked each other in the eye to make sure they were paying attention.
Some of them drove like total maniacs. Just like Boston but without the constant threat of road rage.
Actually, I never saw an angry person driving the whole time I was there.

nospamsam

what a chinese way to solving the problem. Its like "maybe this will work, but we really have no idea and are going to try no matter how many people's cars and days we are or may smash up, WE HAVE NO ACCOUNTABILITY MUAHAHAHAH lets go get millers we are done with this design comrade."

its just a willy nilly attempt not a real effort

CrashingOut

AWESOME! Those of us with motorcycles will rip through that sucker!!! The US could take some queues from this bad boy.

FrankenPC

Looks like a great excuse to practice your autocross skills.

CodingParadox

We already have these in New Jersey. They are called toll booths.

ljj

@dc-united: The other awful thing they do here is have a complete inability to time traffic lights properly. The 2 traffic lights where Aris T Allen becomes Forest Drive (at Chinquapin Round Road) are timed horribly and are the sole reason there's a massive backup on that road every day.

Yarrr

If the Dukes of Hazzard taught me anything, it's that this sort of obstacle is easily circumvented by hitting a random pile of dirt that is conveniently ramp shaped at high velocity. The best part is that inept Sheriff's deputies that are chasing you will screw up, hit the ra... uh, random dirt pile at a bad angle and corkscrew into a nearby ditch.

theoldwolf

i read somewhere this was in an attempt to keep large vehicles off that particular stretch of road way. not so much speeders.

UTnick

@GiltProto: it's a pretty fracked-up version of socialism though.

Alfonzo

Ha...it should be good fun riding my motorcycle on that street....umm...on closer inspection, with all the dirt on it, perhaps not.

AraCBR

@Yarrr:

1) Greetings, co-local guy
2) I can't think of a single place where people can't complain about the timing of traffic lights.

dc-united

@FrankenPC: If you look at the second photo, there's a truck coming the opposite way, in the same lane, as the motorcycle.

The cycle riders will be the first to be pruned.

mrburglar

@Mannyatic: They don't have ambulances in China. I think they call it population control.

ab3

@Xavoc: I'll do ya one better. A friend of mine's elderly mother managed to TOTAL her car without ever even making it out of the garage.

robinandtami

So this is a "highway" in China? ONE lane - no wonder the price of petroleum has increased so rapidly with all those Chinese having to fuel their vehicles for 21st century highway travel.

sharkync

I'm a speeder, and that looks like a lot of fun to me!! Yiiikes!

pegasus_

China did not think one through. lol Good concept, but in reality....

ChelseaCosta

@otis123: +1

med

This POST is all wrong!.....
This is the Chinese bobsled training course for the next winter olympics.

;)

aec007

@Noobs-R-Us: V.V that was....funny and sad too. Just because i imagined a skinny little white kid looking like skeeter doing the motions.
Im happy our government isnt that stupid. Im sure some jack ass would get pissed off and take a jack hammer and start working at it even though thats destroying federal property still hey he'll be famous....well relatively famous.

SneakerFiend

We have these all over my hometown of Arcata, CA. They're just not as narrow or as ridiculously tall. I love them, personally. Then again, I ride a motorcycle- so more curves=more fun!

MasterYong

They actually have some similar "speedbumps" in some residential Seattle neighborhoods. They can suck a fat one as far as I'm concerned. All of a sudden, three cars is a freaking traffic jam.

PEWPEWGreenLaser

I'm still convinced the best mode of transport is the city subway. Unless you're in NYC, which I recommend you buy a car and never use that crappy metro.

michaelleung

@mrburglar:

Good point. Thankfully that freakish barrier is large enough TO ride on :D

FrankenPC