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In Australia all the highways are named There's a Bruce Highway
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Oct 21, 2022 07:20
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All freeways should be named, 101, 210, 405, etc, it's all lazy. I want good highway names like "Congestion," "Avoid" and "Probably an Accident Slowing poo poo down" freeways.
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Oct 21, 2022 08:00
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sigher posted:All freeways should be named, 101, 210, 405, etc, it's all lazy. I want good highway names like "Congestion," "Avoid" and "Probably an Accident Slowing poo poo down" freeways. So, the 5, the 5, and, uh, the 5?
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Oct 21, 2022 08:10
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EoinCannon posted:In Australia all the highways are named And it fucken sucks.
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Oct 21, 2022 08:51
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Oct 21, 2022 09:45
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Talking about signage in different countries. I was recently in a meeting in Germany, and one of the participants (US older gentleman) did not have any idea what this sign means: I know all signs are usually spelled out in US, but is this truly the case for "average" driver, or was the guy just old? Thinking that there would be no barrier for him to rent a car in Germany and just drive around with no idea what the signs mean. The one above is quite harmless (well, you get towed or fined), but if the same stands for some more critical signs, it might not be so nice.. Some of the signs (e.g. stop signs, etc) have the same shape, and often even same text, but not all. Does a US (or other non EU) driver recognise e.g. these ones?  (this might be more common in Finland) 
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Oct 21, 2022 09:55
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Letmebefrank posted:
As a Brit I guess I count as non-EU. I've no idea what those are.
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Oct 21, 2022 10:03
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Letmebefrank posted:Signs My guesses was "no entry" followed by "no parking" for the first, then No idea, maybe a railway crossing? "Do not yield (you have right of way!)" Literally meaningless. edit: am in NZ Lotsa cultural assumptions in our signs. I'd bet ya a buck that even a basic arrow would be unrecognizable to a amazon tribe that uses bows daily. Serephina fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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Oct 21, 2022 10:15
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Letmebefrank posted:Does a US (or other non EU) driver recognise e.g. these ones? Not even a little. Signage in the US is very straightforward and often text-based - as long as you know Speed Limit (white rectangle), Stop (red octagon), No Entry (red circle with white line), Yield (yellow triangle), and Caution (yellow diamond), everything else just spells out what it's for. No Parking, No U-Turn, and other similar things are in english rather than graphic. Kith fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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Oct 21, 2022 10:17
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Serephina posted:
Yikes! Please do not drive in the EU  No vehicles allowed in either direction.
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Oct 21, 2022 10:20
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Wrong sign, was referring to the triangle one. Triangles are ost commonly used for yield signs here. So "(do not) yield", literally. There is a reason why driving licenses exist, lol. I still can't quite wrap my head around why foreign licenses are accepted w/o any testing, seems like a disaster.
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Oct 21, 2022 10:23
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Letmebefrank posted:Talking about signage in different countries. I was recently in a meeting in Germany, and one of the participants (US older gentleman) did not have any idea what this sign means: Those are Vienna convention standards which are pretty widely adopted especially in Europe/former  and elsewhere outside of China & our special anglo friends The green & yellow is signed/ratified.
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Oct 21, 2022 10:29
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Letmebefrank posted:Talking about signage in different countries. I was recently in a meeting in Germany, and one of the participants (US older gentleman) did not have any idea what this sign means: I teach Americans how to drive here in Sweden, and, no, it's not reasonable to expect an American to understand your EU signs offhand. It's one of the biggest parts of the process. If you have a non EU license here, you have to go through the DL process from the very beginning, but certain US states and certain German states have reciprocity.
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Oct 21, 2022 10:31
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Now we have all determined that no, people who live outside the EU cannot psychically determine the meaning of arbitrary coloured signs, would someone post the answers or do I have to reverse image search them?
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Oct 21, 2022 10:35
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Sure End of do not yield area (without the black bar it is the start of don't yield zone) Warning of a hazardous crossroads (triangle signs are warnings) No motor vehicles
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Oct 21, 2022 10:43
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Letmebefrank posted:
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Oct 21, 2022 10:44
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No parking. End of priority road: Right hand rules applies again. You have to yield when entering a priority road. Road crossing ahead. This is used when a crossing is hidden from view or unexpected. No vehicles allowed on this road in any direction. e: welp
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Oct 21, 2022 10:44
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japan uses that no parking sign and has this one for absolutely no stopping (like for loading/unloading) at all. the rest were a mystery to me
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Oct 21, 2022 11:02
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I grew up in L.A. and I'm so old that I remember when the 5 was being built up the central valley and we used to take the 99 which had a ton of stoplights. Back then we referred to the various freeways by their names. The 5 was the Golden State Freeway. The 405 was the San Diego Freeway. The 170 was the Hollywood Freeway. The 10 was the Santa Monica Freeway. The 1 was PCH, or the Pacific Coast Highway. Of course, some of them retain their names, the PCH in particular. Now, my theory is why we use the "The" when refering to our freeways is that there are so many loving many of them. The "The" is a convenient spacer to clarify the changing between freeways. For example, I'm going from Calabasas to Sylmar. I'm taking the 101 to the the 405 to the 210. Using that idiotic NorCal nomenclature I would say I'm taking 101 to 405 to 210 which sounds like one oh one to four oh five to two ten. Or I'm taking one oh one two four oh five two two ten. The Californians! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCer2e0t8r8
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Oct 21, 2022 11:02
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Letmebefrank posted:
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Oct 21, 2022 11:42
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The last one is Homer Simpson swimming in the Red Sea as seen from above, actually.
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Oct 21, 2022 12:45
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Kith posted:Not even a little. Signage in the US is very straightforward and often text-based - as long as you know Speed Limit (white rectangle), Stop (red octagon), No Entry (red circle with white line), Yield (yellow triangle), and Caution (yellow diamond), everything else just spells out what it's for. No Parking, No U-Turn, and other similar things are in english rather than graphic. What makes me giggle here in the US is it not really having roundabouts, so when I come across one, it has yeild signs, do not enter signs, one way signs, and pictures of where you can enter and exit. The one I use on my way to work has two lanes, so it has a sign showing which exit you can use with each lane.
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Oct 21, 2022 13:06
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This is amazing environmental storytelling
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Oct 21, 2022 13:26
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Oct 21, 2022 13:47
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Uthor posted:What makes me giggle here in the US is it not really having roundabouts, so when I come across one, it has yeild signs, do not enter signs, one way signs, and pictures of where you can enter and exit. The one I use on my way to work has two lanes, so it has a sign showing which exit you can use with each lane. to be american is to perpetually live in desperate confusion
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Oct 21, 2022 13:51
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Oooof
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Oct 21, 2022 14:08
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I will say, this took me a moment to put together.
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Oct 21, 2022 14:13
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Bone_Enterprise posted:I will say, this took me a moment to put together. That Jiffy Lube should have taken a moment to put it together too.
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Oct 21, 2022 14:17
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Robobot posted:That Jiffy Lube should have taken a moment to put it together too. Well I guess if anything, something did get done in a Jiffy.
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Oct 21, 2022 14:23
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In southern Ontario, I don't know about everywhere else, but lets face it, everywhere else DOESN"T MATTER. When referring to 400 series highways, it "The 401", "The 427" "The 115" "The 420" (smoke treez erry day yo!). Even though the 115 isn't a 400 series, its a controlled access divided highway, and that might be also why its referred to as "the". Smaller highways and coincidentally those that have only two or less numbers in their designation are referred to as "Highway X" So, Highway 7, Highway 12, Highway 20 and so on. And for thems of y'all what ain't be knowing, the QEW's 400 series number is Highway 451.
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Oct 21, 2022 14:47
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Oct 21, 2022 15:23
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axolotl farmer posted:
This one is double fun when priorité a la droite gets involved
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Oct 21, 2022 15:29
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Lol at "Mechanic at jiffy lube.
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Oct 21, 2022 15:35
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mobby_6kl posted:Those are Vienna convention standards which are pretty widely adopted especially in Europe/former The Chinese seem to be very close though.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_China I had not even thought that these were somehow weird in anywhere. Just somehow surprising as they are so deeply ingrained. I wonder if the text-basedness of US signs cause any issues for immigrants. The Vienna signs seem to be particularly designed to avoid cultural or language expectations.
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Oct 21, 2022 15:46
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Letmebefrank posted:I wonder if the text-basedness of US signs cause any issues for immigrants. Many things in US are designed specifically to gently caress with immigrants on purpose, hth
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Oct 21, 2022 15:49
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I gotta catch a glimpse of these warlocks... wesleywillis posted:Lol at "Mechanic at jiffy lube.
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Oct 21, 2022 15:50
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Letmebefrank posted:The Chinese seem to be very close though.. The big majority of US road signs aren't text only, they just have text incorporated into them or they'll have a text box underneath. Like I'll often see a no U-turn sign but with "NO U-TURN" underneath. Or for example do not enter has text inside a red circle but it's still pictographic if you don't read the text. One exception is the no passing sign, but its shape is distinct so it's still pretty easy to spot if you study the shapes. That and road construction signs, but those are more graphic and the important stuff like merging lanes will have a pictographic sign.
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Oct 21, 2022 16:01
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There's all kinds of neat stuff that's useful with interstate numbers. Even numbers go east to west and odd numbers go north south. If its a three digit interstate, I think if the first number is even, it connects back up to the primary interstate, but if it's odd it does not. Something like that. Also, mile markers run one direction (they count up from west to east, can't remember north/south). That stuff used to be useful when driving cross country without gps or even google maps, just a trucker's atlas.
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Oct 21, 2022 16:07
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I went looking at some local Jiffy Lubes and found a distressing amount of oil trails and puddles on the exit lanes.  
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Oct 21, 2022 16:10
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What, do you all not create motor oil warding lines around your auto shop to keep gearheads away?
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