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Sep 8, 2020

[Answer] What does the British term "sleeping policeman" refer to?

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...1. A traffic cone 2. A royal guard 3. A speed bump 4. A stop sign




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A speed bump - If you think about it, the term “speed bump” is a pretty pedestrian way to describe that familiar raised strip in a road intended to slow drivers down. The Brits have a much more creative take: a “sleeping policeman.” The origin of the colloquial term is unclear, but considering that the bumps do act as a subtle law enforcement measure, it’s easy to see how some clever scribe invented it. According to The New York Times, the earliest form of a speed bump was first introduced in Chatham, New Jersey, in 1906. Speed bumps — or sleeping policemen — were introduced in the U.K. in 1983; today there are 42,000 of them on 14,000 roads.:


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