[Noizz]

Motorists travelling on 22nd Street in West Vancouver will be confronted with a 3D image of a little girl chasing a ball in the street starting next Tuesday.

The display, which costs $15,000 to run, will be installed in a school zone on 22nd Street, just north of Inglewood Avenue, and very close to École Pauline Johnson Elementary School. It will be in place for one week.

The 3D image will look like an indistinguishable mark from far away, but by the time the driver is within 30 metres, the image of the girl and ball will become clear.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/driving-a-message-home-with-an-optical-illusion/article1693547/

What a way to spend $15,000 and possibly cause more accidents with an inexperienced driver... especially when testing is done near a school zone. Some idiot is going to swerve off the road and take out god knows what.

[Groot]

geez...wtf are they smoking?

[Tokemon]

Hope no one gets killed because of the stupid 3D images....

God bless those students.....!

[orange7]

our tax money?????

next thing we know.. another tax will be introduced: the optical illusion tax. Also, the HST will probably apply to this optical illusion tax.

so it's like paying a tax on another tax.

[FerrariEnzo]

so $15,000 to run per day? or for the whole week??

that image is fucked.. the shoes are big.. the girls clothes are way to light.. its retarded for $15,000...

[mmmmmic]

pedestrians are gonna start getting run over when the drivers think theyre all 3D images.

[vafanculo]

Underglow lights a safety hazard and illegal...
3D images of children running across the street are legal.

Right...
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[supers7n]

WTF this is absolutely retarded

[PiuYi]

holy fuck this is retarded

[cctw]

what a waste of $15,000...though not as bad as those $80,000 bus stops we had on no.3 road

[Shead]

waste of fucking money, why not spend the tax dollar on fixing more of the shitty roads.

[EmOne]

lawsuit incoming

[smoothie.]

good thought, bad execution.

+1 on drivers thinking real people are those 3d images.

OR an old c lai stopped on the road for hours cause the kid hasnt moved :rofl:

[J____]

holy wat a stupid idea.... this is going to cause so much accidents. People will shit their pants, slam on the brakes and swerve into something, or be distracted and stare at it while they drive by head on into something else.

if this was in the states, lawyers will be lining up the day this thing goes live.

redonculous!

[rJZx]

For $15,000 couldn't they get a optical illusion that works? or at least looks cool?

[Nightwalker]

That's a pretty cool idea. Probably right that it'll only be effective the first time, if it's only for a week people will hardly have time to really get used to and lazy on the idea though.

This won't cause a single accident or problem for a competent driver.

[taylor192]

What a way to spend $15,000 and possibly cause more accidents with an inexperienced driver... especially when testing is done near a school zone. Some idiot is going to swerve off the road and take out god knows what.
That idiot shouldn't be on the road if they overreact. Fail, take away license. Then maybe we'll get higher speed limits.

[sonick]

lol they should put this on #3 Road in Richmond :rofl:

[Slifer]

They should put a hot naked chick on the street instead.. :D

[Berzerker]

Someone needs to put a Pedobear costume on and go get pic taken with said little girl...

Berz out.

[TheNewGirl]

So this, like those carboard cut outs of kids they put out by schools is just going to make people further jaded to small child sized things on/near street?

Yeaaaahhh smart.

[Death2Theft]

So how many tickets do they have to hand out to recoup 15000?

[taylor192]

So how many tickets do they have to hand out to recoup 15000?
How many accidents do they need to prevent to save $15K?

[TRD Rs200]

What the fuck are they smoking? Shit?
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[bloodmack]

So what are they going to do if someone just runs right through it?

[!Yaminashi]

So what are they going to do if someone just runs right through it?

Probably implement a new dangerous driving tax, and then a tax because they had to think of another tax

[bloodmack]

Probably implement a new dangerous driving tax, and then a tax because they had to think of another tax

:rofl:

Apparently there will be cops there, so much for getting some lols out of this :(

[q0192837465]

oh man, This makes me wanna start working for the government and come up with shit to mindfuck our drivers

[Jegz]

Chick has monster feet

[Slifer]

Its a monster! Run over that Bigfoot!!

[FerrariEnzo]

so why dont they also just TAX the tax too.. damn idiots...

[johny]

WTF... so dumb. some guy is going to be staring at it figuring out what it is... and some real kid will come out that we won't see....

[jeepwreck]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/09/3d-girl-250.jpg

thats crazy

[w00tgasm]

LOOK OUT FOR THAT KID

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/4/2010/09/a93c1c645958bea23aa94e0ef414ff19/original.gif

[Gh0stRider]

^^ LOL

[8thcivic]

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h213/69xchange/pedobear.jpg

[PDA_86]

^ hahaha

[dachinesedude]

they better not show it in the middle of the night, kid playing ball at 3am? thats some scary shit

[rexsomnii]

if the government really wanted to slow drivers down , they should pay this artist to do his artwork. much better than big footed girl chasing a ball.
don't want to drive through something like that and hurt your car.

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/artt5.jpg

[Sgt_Koopa]

Good to see the HST is hard at work. This is the most retarded thing ....... EVER

[vahidpooyan]

Morons is all I can say!

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5734/888qr.jpg

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3782/94770627.jpg

[Stevie P]

Whoever came up with this should be fired.

[sonick]

How the fuck can you call that a '3D image'.

[Dragon-88]

How the fuck does that cost $15G's

[belka]

Someone go do a burnout on that stupid thing.

[sonick]

lol, can of spraypaint = $15k down the drain.

[q0192837465]

Will they be monitoring it 24/7? Someone should go & put on some "make-up" for that little girl.

[sonick]

Will they be monitoring it 24/7? Someone should go & put on some "make-up" for that little girl.

Jism.

[underscore]

What a way to spend $15,000 and possibly cause more accidents with an inexperienced driver... especially when testing is done near a school zone. Some idiot is going to swerve off the road and take out god knows what.

holy wat a stupid idea.... this is going to cause so much accidents. People will shit their pants, slam on the brakes and swerve into something, or be distracted and stare at it while they drive by head on into something else.

if this was in the states, lawyers will be lining up the day this thing goes live.

redonculous!

If this is what happens when someone runs in front of you when you drive by a school, please turn in your license right now, because you're a fucking terrible driver.

[flagella]

rofl, next time I see a real kid running across I might run over thinking it's just an illusion.

[Jegz]

Someone should chalk a hopscotch course over the girl to let even more drivers know its a school zone

[EmOne]

anybody seen it in person yet?
where is it exactly

[Eff-1]

There are a few misconceptions here that hopefully can be cleared up.

This isn't paid for by any kind of tax dollars.

The effect was never designed to scare or surprise you. As you approach there are several signs that warn you to expect something on the road ahead, including a gigantic electronic sign that flashes and warns you to slow down. The speed limit is 30 km/h on that block. From a long distance, you can see something in the road well before the 3D effect ever takes shape. Once you can make it out, it slowly goes away as you get closer. Eventually, it disappears as a blob on the road.

Those photos are taken from standing next to it. The driver's perspective is very different.

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/09/08/1225915/670312-child-hologram-on-street.gif

This was developed simply to help draw more attention to the issue of school zones. Every year we hear the same speech by the cops and school board asking us to slow down. People aren't paying attention.

The buzz this thing has generated is immense-- it's gained international attention. Never has there been more attention drawn towards this issue than in the past few years at least. And if you stand there for a few minutes, you'll see cars slowing right down. That's good stuff.

You could argue the financial cost of one child being struck by a car easily exceeds the cost put into this project. And as mentioned before, none of it was tax dollars.

[shenmecar]

quick, we need to hire a 3D sidewalk artist to draw a Pedobear next to the girl.

[Eff-1]

This article is worth reading for those interested:

http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/102399519.html

[TOPEC]

heard a discussion on the radio one day thats pretty interesting.
what if people get so used to that 3D girl and they start ignoring it?
what happens if people start ignoring it, and one day it turns out to be a real girl running across the streets?

[Eff-1]

It's obvious enough that it's not a real girl. Also the fact it's frozen and not moving lol.

The media has made it sound quite a bit more realistic than it actually was ever designed to be. You'll never confuse this thing for a real child, but it does remind you to always expect the unexpected.

[RabidRat]

i just went to go check it out. i could barely make it out in the dark, as it's not lit up or anything (i thought it would be).

i might go again this week when there's still daylight, but so far i'm struggling to see where the $15,000 went, especially when that only pays for a week of use.

[EndLeSS8]

I always slow down in school zones, but if I lived anywhere near that area, I would spraypaint the heck out of it.
It's just such a stupid idea, making driving in Vancouver even more stressful than it already is.