Post #2497188
2025-04-03 18:57 UTC
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@njsg@mementomori.social 2025-04-03 22:16
@realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online My guess is that it's (at least) all countries that have signed to the Vienna Convention. Also, the background of the right side ones can be yellow.
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@buzzyrobin@chaos.social 2025-04-03 22:55
@realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online … Australia? (these are barely recognisable to me, and even then, only the right-hand ones)
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@blackcap@todon.nl 2025-04-04 00:07
@realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online Not to mention Canada and Mexico and how most of South America is a mix of MUTCD and Vienna Convention style signs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MUTCD-influenced_traffic_signs
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@lackthereof@kolektiva.social 2025-04-04 00:33
@realsimon@mastodon.green Yeah that's because we standardized back in 1920's, and what we standardized ON was basically whatever guerilla signage various auto clubs had been putting was most popular in the 1910’s We tried adopting Vienna Convention signage in the 1970's but the trial was an unmitigated disaster, so instead we settled for slowly updating the MUTCD to start replacing text on signs with symbols. The only remaining vestiges of the attempt are a handful of rare signs with metric units.
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@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social 2025-04-04 01:25
@realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online We wouldn't because no one would put a banana up next to the sign for a size comparison! No we could understand those "kilos" of "meters" or whatever! 😢
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@vorboyvo@mstdn.isometry.group 2025-04-04 14:07
@realsimon@mastodon.green hi! lots of countries don't use the vienna convention! canada, essentially all of latin america and the caribbean, australia and NZ, southern africa, among others. just because the united states does something doesn't mean it's wrong, and also doesn't mean it's the only country on the planet that does it.