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Speed bumps? Oh! You mean speed humps or sleeping policemen or speed tables or traffic thresholds or speed cushions or rumble strips or…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_bump




Rumble strips are a different thing, designed to guard against inattention. They can be related to speed control, but need not be.


Sure, but mostly everyone in English understands speed bump. There's a standard word that's understood by most. In German, you can even see in this post how many people have heard only very different words (they don't even know the rest).


Traffic calming measure




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