Oh, that's the purpose? I don't think I'd ever guessed. Thank you.

There's two opposing lanes of traffic on the other side if the barrier, I assure you. Cyprus drives on the left side of the road.

I feel my stubborn tendencies is in sync with the digging of heals. Some people deserve a virtual slap for being selfish little gits.

Nobody with a little bit of compassion laughs at stories like this. People read this with a bit of incredulity and a lot of compassion. We might make fun of Americans at times, but there's no humour here.

Now imagine crash barriers made of steel wire. I don't know if they are still used in new projects, but there plenty of them around and a reason they were called cheese slicers.

Edit: I had to look it up and it seems these barriers are being or have been removed: https://www.femamotorcycling.eu/wire-rope-barriers-removed/

That would only be effective for blocking access to the lanes in the other direction, these are mounted in the middle of the motorway, not at the edges. But I think the high beam shield is perfectly reasonable as explanation.

Ow. That kind of hurts, even if I don't drive a motorcycle these days

I suspected as much. I'm one of those socialist Europeans.

Doubtful, why just shield one direction of traffic if so?

Hold on a second ... how accurate is this technique and is it usable as a non-disruptable, world-wide, no infrastructure required GPS system?

Edit: Broke my own rule of not commenting before reading the damn article. Up to 2m accuracy, maybe there is something there. Would be a new Galaxy Positioning System if usable.

I don't know who "we" are in your context, but strongly suspect my "we" is not the same.

I sincerely hope and believe you're wrong. Sure, there grades, but I don't think there absence of compassion outside our circles.

I don't need either. We have a working health care system. My comment was about people having compassion outside their "circle".