{"id":23009,"date":"2016-03-02T05:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/australias-water-curtain-stop-signs-are-a-great-idea"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:46:21","slug":"australias-water-curtain-stop-signs-are-a-great-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/australias-water-curtain-stop-signs-are-a-great-idea","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Water Curtain Stop Signs Are A Great Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australias-water-curtain-stop-signs-are-a-great-idea.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sydney has been having a big problem with oversized trucks driving into tunnels that are too low. So Sydney needed a stop sign that is absolutely impossible to miss. Here it is and it\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a curtain of water with a stop sign projected onto it. You can have as many overhead stop signs as you want, but as this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo\" target=\"_blank\"> <em> 10 News <\/em> video<\/a> report shows, truck drivers still crash their trucks into these low-overhead tunnels. Sydney was tired of the delays, the costs of the damages, and the threat that a truck crash would get someone killed.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why in 2007 they put in this water curtain sign on its harbor tunnel, designed by light show company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laservision.com.au\/files\/upload\/Softstop.PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Laservision<\/a>. They work brilliantly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/australias-water-curtain-stop-signs-are-a-great-idea-506915576\">http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/australias-water-curtain-stop-signs-are-...-506915576<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney has been having a big problem with oversized trucks driving into tunnels that are too low. So Sydney needed a stop sign that is absolutely impossible to miss. Here it is and it\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s a curtain of water with a stop sign projected onto it. You can have as many overhead stop signs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62581,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions\/62581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}