Human behaviour

At my work there is a 20km/h speed limit in the carpark. It is clearly signed and very clearly ignored. The speed humps do little to slow down the larger cars and four wheel drives, but if they make the humps bigger then they scrape the guts of the low clearance sports cars.

Yesterday morning as I drove up the driveway towards the gates of Mordor and waited for them to complete their ponderous arc, I noticed a speed measurement station had been parked some 20-30 meters in from the gates. The station has a gigantic illuminated display to show the passing driver how fast he/she was travelling. No doubt it keeps a log of all speed measurements so that our facilites supervisor can tell how naughty we've all been.

Well, humans will be humans. Last night as I left work I heard that an unofficial competition had been established to see who could clock the highest speed on the measurement station. The best from a standing start at the gate was 39km/h. This morning a colleague claimed he'd got to 41km/h and still had time to brake before the speed hump.