Keeping deer away from traffic

[XV1100SE]

Just read this on Wired.com....

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/10/roadkill-strobes/

 

Maybe find a way to change a 2nd Gen whine to a sound like an animal in distress and add "predator" eyes to the front?

[MikeWa]

Why not just move the 'Deer Crossing' signs so the deer can cross at a safer place?

 

Mike

[twigg]

I'll let someone else test this system.

 

Color me skeptical simply because deer are best known for their complete unpredictability when alarmed.

 

They are just as likely to run straight across the road in front of you as they are to stand stock-still, or run in the other direction.

[rickardracing]

Why not just move the 'Deer Crossing' signs so the deer can cross at a safer place?

 

Mike

 

 

I heard that. If that broad was any dumber she'd be dead.

[Flyinfool]

I'll let someone else test this system.

 

Color me skeptical simply because deer are best known for their complete unpredictability when alarmed.

 

They are just as likely to run straight across the road in front of you as they are to stand stock-still, or run in the other direction.

:sign yeah that: :sign yeah that:

 

Deer are also very adaptable. They will quickly get acclimated to that sound and look and simply ignore it as being "normal". After all they did get used to the cars whizzing by. When I am way back on the logging roads where the deer very rarely ever see a vehicle they ALWAYS run away from this giant loud thing that is coming down the trail. It may work for a time while it is still new, but it will quickly lose its effectiveness.

One of the better things that I have seen is to plant the sides of the roads with things the deer do not like to eat. This has them spending less time alongside of the roadway.

 

Long term the best way to keep deer off roads is to get them into my frying pan.

 

I have spent over 30 years hunting, filming and studying deer, the only thing I have learned to always expect for sure, is that they will do something that you would never have expected them to do.

[Flyinfool]

I heard that. If that broad was any dumber she'd be dead.

 

Did you also hear the follow up interview??? :bang head:

[uncledj]

Why not just move the 'Deer Crossing' signs so the deer can cross at a safer place?

 

Mike

If they don't wanna move the signs, they should have crosswalks and crossing guards.

[Panjandrum]

The article says:

 

After the car [with the deerdeter] is gone, the animal is free to continue its journey across the road.

 

...IN FRONT OF THE BIKE FOLLOWING THE CAR!

 

THANKS, DUDE!

[mbrood]

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