The traffic police in India have traditionally come up with several strategies to regulate traffic. Many are familiar with the posters like "Speed Thrills but Kills", "Wear a helmet - save your brain" (with a helpful picture of the human brain), "Traffic safety begins with you" ...
Posters/ads are not terribly effective, so the hitech city traffic folks have come up with an innovative approach - pre-recorded messages. If you are someone who stops when the traffic light goes red, you can hear the following:
"STOP!! You have crossed the stop line. When the red light is on please stop before the stop line." (translated from telugu)
Unsuspecting drivers who are in hitech city for the first time get psyched out of their wits when they hear messages like these and instinctively backup their cars/bikes hoping to get behind the imaginary stop line to avoid a traffic fine and in the process collide with the vehicles behind :) .
A classic example of a cure which is worse than the disease :)!!
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Sounds interesting. I'd like to check this out once I am in Hyd.
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