Creative geekdad Mike Woo has solved the problem with drivers speeding outside his (and his kids’) street by printing out a life-size carbon copy (hah) of his son.

The result: slower traffic and drivers yelling at him for letting his kids play so close to traffic. Excellent.

Of course one has to be careful not to overexpose the cardboard kid. Show it too often and the drivers will learn the trick, which can prove fatal the day your kids actually do go and play too close to the street (which they of course won’t since you’re a responsible parent, right?). I’d love to see this developed so that when the speeding radar at your yard sees a motorist moving too fast, the robotics will swing out the cardboard kid from behind a tree (rotating the kid 90 degrees around its height axis might also do the trick but it’s only half as fun)

Vias: geekdad, netorama