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Speed humps. On my daily 5km drive, there are about a dozen of them each way.
I have a 900kg car with sports suspension, and I need to slow almost to a stop for many of them.
Meanwhile people in 2500kg road-blimps are blasting through without slowing.
Most are bumps in the road that taper on the sides. Vehicles with a wide enough wheelbase miss them amlost entirely, whereas my 1.6m wide car gets launched into the air.
The greater the kill capacity of your vehicle, the less you are affected by these "safety" devices.
I'm 50/50 on them. I wish they were more like traditional bumps, covering the whole road so there wasn't really an "avoiding" them. How they're implemented now encourages drivers to aim for the space between, leading to swerving.
The roads I've seen them on, they've done their job - traffic is significantly reduced down then. They're supposed to be unpleasant, but they should be equally unpleasant for all vehicles hahah.
Another small gripe I have with them is unclear signage. Particularly if they're not safe to take at/near the speed limit, each one NEEDS to be marked. They can be hard to see from a distance and slowing down takes time. A lot on certain roads here are missing signage, making the whole thing even more unsafe than if they just didn't install the bumps.
The ones near me are heavily signed. There's usually 4 sign posts on each one. They're big, bright, and an utter blight on the landscape.
I actually drive between them because my car is narrow. I drive down my entire street in the middle of the road and weave oncoming traffic. Again, I'm not sure what sped humps do for safety.
One thing that makes them "equally unpleasant" for everyone is a straight-through muffler. At 2AM, my neighbors are just an inconvenienced as I am when I drop back to first gear 6 times. My council refers to speed humps as "traffic calming devices". In reality, it just aggravates it.
Straight thru mufflers are generally a good way to inconvenience others.