The road crisis costing Aussie drivers<\/a><\/p>\nPerceptual countermeasures, or visual clues are similar to chevron markings which also help drivers keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front.<\/p>\n
PCM have been used successfully used overseas.<\/p>\n
An Austrian trial held in 2019 recorded a huge drop in motorcycle crashes, with some locations falling by as much as 80 per cent. <\/p>\n
The Federation of European Motorcyclists\u2019 Associations (FEMA) reported that \u201cthe cause of many motorcycle accidents is an incorrectly chosen cornering line.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIf the upper body extends too far \u2026 into the oncoming lane, it is often no longer possible to swerve without causing an accident when oncoming traffic suddenly appears,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n
\u201cMotorcyclists generally avoid riding on road markings, even if they are sufficiently grippy and non-slip.\u201d<\/p>\n
The trial is set to leave Victoria as the project has obtained funding and support from transport organisations in NSW, Tasmania and Queensland. <\/p>\n
With the long term data from the Victorian study set to be finalised by October 2026, the hope is improvement from the Australian markings are similar to that of the other countries who tried the same PCMs. <\/p>\n
If the data shows a safety improvement on the roads, the markings could become much more widespread throughout Victoria and the rest of the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strange circular markings are appearing on Australian roads. Small circles painted next to the centre-line on winding roads…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38577,129419,78748,129421,129459,129453,129425,129449,74320,129457,77784,22,7776,129452,129439,30719,129431,21,129437,129433,36917,129461,15840,14595,129417,23902,171,129428,129446,129464,129444,129456,129451,59226,129432,129441,129424,129416,129429,76953,18324,596,51060,46508,43453,129430,129422,3121,129450,129435,54177,129460,4993,129447,129414,129418,71770,129427,126107,129458,37275,36649,129440,38710,37024,45425,62178,44431,129443,47645,129434,129423,87173,129455,129420,129442,38222,38553,41551,43131,129448,42949,129454,38363,108543,42251,129445,36698,129438,91635,129462,129415,129463,129436,129413,68,129426,19850],"class_list":["post-81733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-38577","tag-a-common-cause","tag-a-fraction","tag-a-huge-drop","tag-a-nationwide-trial","tag-a-quiet-road-safety-initiative","tag-a-safe-distance","tag-a-safety-improvement","tag-an-accident","tag-as-much-as-80","tag-associations","tag-au","tag-aus","tag-aussie-driversperceptual-countermeasures","tag-aussie-roads","tag-australian-roads","tag-australiathe-ducati-panigale-v4-approaches","tag-austrlia","tag-bikers","tag-bizarre-new-markings","tag-cent","tag-chosen-cornering-line","tag-control","tag-damage","tag-dangerous-crashes","tag-david-mccowen","tag-drivers","tag-european-motorcyclists","tag-fema","tag-front-pcm","tag-funding-and-support","tag-head-on-collisions","tag-huge-new-ute","tag-improvement","tag-many-motorcycle-accidents","tag-markings","tag-motogp-performance","tag-motorcycle-crashes","tag-motorcycle-focused-lane-marking-trial","tag-motorcyclists","tag-motorists","tag-nsw","tag-october-2026","tag-oncoming-traffic","tag-other-states","tag-overseas-an-austrian-trial","tag-painted-circles","tag-part","tag-pcm","tag-perceptual-countermeasures","tag-riders","tag-road-markings","tag-roads","tag-secret-robot-planthe-markings","tag-short-markings","tag-small-circles","tag-some-locations","tag-strange-circular-markings","tag-tasmania-and-queensland","tag-the-australian-markings","tag-the-cause","tag-the-centre","tag-the-centre-line","tag-the-cost","tag-the-country","tag-the-data","tag-the-federation","tag-the-first-step","tag-the-frequency","tag-the-hope","tag-the-long-term-data","tag-the-markings","tag-the-motorcyclist","tag-the-new-markings","tag-the-oncoming-lane","tag-the-other-countries","tag-the-project","tag-the-rest","tag-the-right","tag-the-road","tag-the-road-crisis","tag-the-roads","tag-the-same-pcms","tag-the-trial","tag-the-upper-body","tag-the-vehicle","tag-the-victorian-study","tag-the-way","tag-their-lane-the-victorian-government","tag-their-turn","tag-their-upper-body-more","tag-themselves-and-others","tag-these-roads","tag-transport-organisations","tag-vehicles-and-motorcycles","tag-victoria","tag-visual-clues","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}