• wander1236@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I’m pretty sure it’s saying you can’t turn left onto the road to the left of the intersection. Looks like some pretty bad road design.

    • hazeebabee@slrpnk.net
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      8 months ago

      This is exactly the type of content i was hoping for when i clicked on the comments. Thank you for all you hard work sluthing for an explination of a random photo. Its truly gods work that your doing.

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      8 months ago

      I understand the intent from your graphic, but given the signage, I would not have known what they expected of me.

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        8 months ago

        The painting on the road should indicate a 45° left instead of 90° left.

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          8 months ago

          It’s also easier when there are no rules saying you can’t enter that road name into Google maps.

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          8 months ago

          Easier, definitely. And a unique street name. But it’s quite hard to read the cross street name. All I can see is the “E DR” at the end. I probably wouldn’t have bothered from just seeing the one street and no other text.

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            8 months ago

            I got lucky with Google Maps highlighting the apartment building in the background as a POI to match up with.

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    8 months ago

    Seems the mildly infuriating part is the left out information.

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    8 months ago

    Sometimes construction makes for unexpected detours.

    (I should probably mention that it’s also a dead end road, so no backing out)

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    8 months ago

    Apart from what some commenters already pointed out (about the orientation of the roads there), I’m not sure how it’s going in the US, but in Europe, we have a hierarchy, where the sign on a pole takes precedence over the sign painted on the road.

    The hierarchy is:

    1. Police officer’s hand signs
    2. Traffic lights
    3. Signs on a pole
    4. Signs painted on the road

    According to this, you cannot turn left, even though it looks like a left turning lane.

    Is there such a thing in the US?

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      8 months ago

      Is there such a thing in the US?

      Yeah.

      1. Whatever the heck I want, because “ma freedom”
      2. Police officer’s hand signs
      3. Traffic lights
      4. Signs on a pole
      5. Signs painted on the road
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      8 months ago

      Lately the trend is for temporary signs to have yellow background instead of white. So if you see road construction you’ll see a yellow background sign.

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      8 months ago

      in Europe, we have a hierarchy

      This is definitely not true for all of Europe. In Germany, for instance, signs on roads have equal precedence to signs on poles.

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          8 months ago

          That’s the neat part: They don’t. At least I have never seen confusing signage/markings.

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              8 months ago

              In Germany we actually test people before we let them drive cars. If you’re from the US, this concept might be unfamiliar :D

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                8 months ago

                This has nothing to do with the drivers, and more to do with municipal workers putting up signage.

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            Here in Finland we just wait for snow, then you can’t see the painted one.

            Which is why it was such a great idea to replace our solid “you can’t pass here” lines from their old bright yellow to EU matching white so that that self driving cars understand them correctly. So now during the winter both of us and the machines can’t see them equally well.

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    8 months ago

    Makes perfect sense to me. Sign on a pole takes precedence over sign on road.