> Speed bumps (also called traffic thresholds, speed breakers or sleeping policemen) are a class of traffic calming devices that use vertical deflection to slow motor-vehicle traffic in order to improve safety conditions
It's just a difference of degree of deflection.
2. there are many other types of traffic calming devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming#Measures
2. Horizontal deflection and blocking access (usually requiring more distance to be covered) both increase maintenance on vehicles; by my count, three out of four categories of traffic calming increase maintenance on vehicles --- it's clearly an allowed part of the design. Going back several comments, blocking access often makes cycling much worse too. As can narrowing, depending on how its done.
By individual items: there's 6 items in narrowing, which I think is reasonable to say don't increase maintenance. There's 8 vertical deflections, which are all increasing. There's three in horizontal deflection, I'll give you roundabouts (I've argued enough about those elsewhere), so that's 2 more increasing and 1 not. For blocking, there's four, all of which are likely to increase travel distance.
So 6 + 1 = 7 vs 8 + 2 + 4 = 14. 7 out of 21 is the vast majority?
Pot holes clearly fit under vertical and horizontal deflection. Possibly block or restrict access. Deferred maintenance could be a general category of traffic calming.
Speed bumps are relatively gradual changes in height relative to pot holes. A properly built speed bump driven over at an appropriate speed doesn't "shock" your vehicle.