Interesting idea. A diamond yellow sticker for the rear of your car, identifying you as someone who abides by speed limits, tries to be cautious and courteous: Calling All Pace Car Drivers – Streets for the People A little more reading, it appears to be somewhat local still, CalmRocTraffic.com is local to Rochester, New York. Maybe I'll try photoshopping up one. I've got a decent printer, not sure what materials I could print. A magnetic applique might be good. Calm ROC Traffic | Placemaking, Traffic Calming and Quality of Life in South-East Rochester
i would like to see the dmv hand these out. personal initiative will probably just get you rear ended, or a ticket. and i disagree with the first article. around here anyway, people who live on my street also speed on my street. and one of them is a selectman. we have people put out those 'children at play' figures, and signs that say, 'please drive like you live here'. but the only people who care are the ones with the signs. and we have people right here on priuschat, who say that if you're holding up traffic, you should pull over. even if you are going the speed limit.
You might get illiterate / Dyslexic racer wannabe's thinking it says "RACE CAR" and not Pace car... Might have to engage in an occasional street race...
I've never been a fan of bumper stickers, well apart from the ocassional leaf that sticks there, of it's own accord, lol. And the more I read, the more I see it's spotty, just certain cities you can get the decals. Anyway, maybe worth reading the points of the pledge, at least keeping them in mind.
Besides the speed issue, one of the other points of the pledge is to play by the rules at stop signs. In other words, come to a FULL stop with the car behind the white line, look both ways for cars and pedestrians, and so on. Once a year, me and the wife go for a little walk to city hall, with a check for our annual property taxes. Last year we stopped for a sit, about a block from the city hall and the integrated cop shop, across the street from an intersection with a stop sign. I started watching cars arrive at the stop, not ONE came to a solid stop. I learned this when I took driver's ed about a century ago, funny thing tho: the instructors, and provincial booklets, never said why. It dawned on me (while walking) about a year back, that white line is like a cross walk boundary, and the object was to avoid driving over people on foot, trying to cross.
