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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by arthurdenture on Monday June 06, 2016 @09:15PM (#11851754)
> Speed bumps usually kill more people by slowing down ambulances than they save by reducing vehicle speeds.

I don't think you're going to find research to support that. At least, I couldn't. http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6419/do-speed-bu... has some interesting discussion of it.

I'm a big fan of the other advice, though, about changing the road design to discourage speeding.

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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @01:10AM (#11852512)
Thanks for the link - apparently I need to flag "things I vaguely remember being as facts I read at some point" as "possibly an urban legend".
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