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Why were those jarring 'rumble strips' on the edges of highways originally invented in the 1950s?

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Why were those jarring 'rumble strips' on the edges of highways originally invented in the 1950s?

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Why were those jarring 'rumble strips' on the edges of highways originally invented in the 1950s?
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