I like how stop signs in France say "stop" but in Quebec say "arret"

@revcrussell

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, not the only thing the militant Franaphonie do. KFC is known as such worldwide, except Canada, in Quebec it has to go by PFK.

@MainInternetUser

Жыл бұрын

@@revcrussell they all closed now

@krystiankowalski7335

Жыл бұрын

Just like how signs in Spain say “stop” but in most of Latin America they say “alto” (edit: or “pare”, I forgot they used a different word in South America)

@Tax_Collector01

Жыл бұрын

Quebec is arguably more French than France itself.

@mardiffv.8775

Жыл бұрын

France has a lot of foreign tourists by car, being the nr. 1 tourist destination in the world. So using the universal word STOP makes more sense then ARRET. Quebec wants to protect its French language, so ARRET. Learn Quebecois or crash you car and pay up.

" Americans don't feel the need to listen to anybody least of all their own federal government" too true lol

@traskforge

Жыл бұрын

not true enough I'd say

@johnathin0061892

Жыл бұрын

If that were actually true, America wouldn't be in the dire situation it is in today. Federalism was a feature, not a bug.

@dgoddard

Жыл бұрын

You think that's true, but fail to realize how many morons got the C19 vaccines, and still are looking for more. *sigh* If we'd stop listening to our idiots in charge, this country would be a lot better off. They don't know what's good for us, because they aren't us. But I guess some people like being bundled up in a nice, neat package like the rest of the world. I don't. I'm an individual, not part of some entity. And I'd prefer it to stay that way.

@deleted-something

Жыл бұрын

Fr

@doomsdayrabbit4398

Жыл бұрын

@@johnathin0061892 The problem is that our federal representation has been suffocated since 1929.

I’m actually impressed so many countries organized to one set of traffic signs. I wish that happened more often.

@Lorre982

Жыл бұрын

like the S.I. (System International of mesurement), common known as metric System

@drsnova7313

Жыл бұрын

You say "one set", I say "Why the hell all these pointless minor differences"? I mean, surely if you can come up with this general standard, that everyone follows, you could also standardize the shade of blue used, fonts, borders and sizes. Mind you, the signs remain perfectly readable and understandable with these differences, but it's still weird to have them, when you could just...not have them. Should make it easier and cheaper to produce and source them globally, as a bonus.

@velvetbutterfly

Жыл бұрын

@@drsnova7313 you forget different dyes are more common in different parts of the world, it's probable the differences in colours are because they went with the cheapest and most plentiful dye they had that was close enough to the standard proposed

@stephenlee5929

Жыл бұрын

@@drsnova7313 Also colours appear differently depending upon the lighting conditions. Why would I wan other countries to be able to supply my country's road signs? Different signs weather differently dependant upon local conditions. Its useful if people recognise the country they are currently in, or at least realise they are not at home, so different rules may apply.

@agrodavide

Жыл бұрын

The entire ISO organization: I'm a joke to you?

Australian here, no wonder I found US signs so familiar when driving there, ours are near identical down to the font. Only exception being speed limit signs.

@reillywalker195

Жыл бұрын

That makes sense. Australia has no land borders, so its road signage can be understood easily by most drivers if it's in written English. The typeface used for it, Highway Gothic, is also public domain if I remember correctly.

@coover65

Жыл бұрын

And the symbol signs with kangaroos and koalas!😁😀

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

That wasn't always the case, pre-metric, Australia speed limit signs were EXACTLY the same.

@razvandobos9759

4 ай бұрын

Yeah you Aussies have the exact same stop sign as we and Canada do, down to the font.

@bryandyer5454

3 ай бұрын

How difficult was the switch to right-side driving?

Most of Canada's signs are the same as in the US, with a slight exception being our speed limit signs. They look like the American signs, but ours say "Maximum" instead of "Speed Limit" because Maximum is the same in both English and French.

@bananatassium7009

Жыл бұрын

that's actually very cool, well done Canadians on making that call!

@revcrussell

Жыл бұрын

I came here just to say that. Canada also has that constitutional division problem where roads are a provincial jurisdiction and treaties are federal.

@thereisnoaddress

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say this! Quebec has Minimum signs too and also the only province (region in North America) to use military time on signs -- instead of 7AM to 7PM, it would say 7h - 19h.

@aintnoway686

Жыл бұрын

Once more, people ignore just how similar to US is to Canada and vice versa...just that Canada gets a free pass for basically no reason

@revcrussell

Жыл бұрын

@@thereisnoaddress That's because in French (at least Quebec French) they tell time in 24 hours.

That stock video of the guy typing on the computer and pulling a kitchen knife is brilliant. Kudos to whoever found that one in the library.

@rachelredden6682

Жыл бұрын

What is with these damn bots?

@TheKeksadler

Жыл бұрын

if only these bots actually linked to the clip...

@friendlyhonda3187

Жыл бұрын

Going to use that in one of my IT tutorial videos for sure.

@henryml9999

Жыл бұрын

@@TheKeksadler it’s at 5:14

@NakAlienEd

Жыл бұрын

@@rachelredden6682 Wish I knew why they suddenly started popping up everywhere in the last few months. I don't remember seeing them anywhere a year ago.

We have SOME pictographic signs here in the US! It's just that they're usually weirdly specific, like, "If you drive through here, a cow might fall on your car." I don't think anyone would believe a "watch out for falling cows" sign (the first time), so that pictogram is my favorite. It really makes you contemplate the potential for projectile bovines.

As an australian I can safely say i recognised pretty much all those "US" signs except for things like the US speed limit signs. Our signs down under are very similar, only some slight variations on things like the no stopping which is a red rectangle with "no stopping" in white type

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

If you were driving pre-metric, you would have recognised the speed limit signs as well. They were the same (and in mph).

@lzh4950

Ай бұрын

Quite a lot of other countries also use the American-style yellow diamond warning sign instead of the red tringular one in 0:40 e.g. Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Ireland. Meanwhile Singapore uses both - the diamond ones are for temporary use e.g. where there're road diversions due to construction works nearby, while the triangular ones are permanent signs

Australia uses a mish-mash of both, was very intriguing watching this and seeing both very similar and very alien signs.

@U9DATE

Жыл бұрын

@just i c e I won’t.

@teelo12000

Жыл бұрын

Is it different by state/territory?

@da4127

Жыл бұрын

Same in South America, its a mix of both

@OriginalPiMan

Жыл бұрын

@@teelo12000 Yes, but actually no. While the states make the rules, they've all agreed to use the same signs as each other. (There is some state by state variation, but it is minor. Usually just a difference of including or not including text by a shared symbol.)

@frogandspanner

Жыл бұрын

The Australian ones look like the UK 1950s signs.

It also fits quite nicely into something Jeremy Clarkson once commented on when doing that car show thingy he's famous for: European cars use pictograms for the buttons to indicate what they are supposed to do whereas american cars just put the english word for it on the button. His theory: Because european cars are sold all over europe where everyone speaks a different language having pictograms just makes it easier to sell your french car in italy without having to manufacture new buttons that have the italian words on it. But in america, everyone is expected to be able to speak english, so why use pictograms when you can use words because everyone knows what those words mean.

@balintvarga5146

Жыл бұрын

And also, clearly quite a lot of Americans cannot comprehend the sign of something as complicated as a draw bridge so for every idiot's safety, it has to be written with words.

@pa28cfi

Жыл бұрын

@@balintvarga5146 The irony of this comment is awesome.

@Bird_Dog00

Жыл бұрын

I saw that clip. What surprised me most was that Clarkson was prepared to admit that most adults in the US can read...

@clonescope2433

Жыл бұрын

@@balintvarga5146 oh yes because reading words only about like 60 miles per hour past you it's very easy. Most us signs are either one or two words or they use a pictogram along the words.

@perdhapley4809

Жыл бұрын

This is the same reason cited for European cars usually having numerical names such as “Volvo 240” while automakers in the USA and Japan almost always give them names like “Caprice” or “Crown”

I think the reason is because we all speak English in America (even visitors from Canada and Mexico understand English enough to understand road signs), but Europe speaks a bunch of different languages so their signs need to rely more on symbols than words.

So basically Americans just can't understand images so they need to have written on the sign what it means.

Interestingly, here in China, despite it does not join the Vienna convention, Chinese roadway signs are basically aligned with it.

@reckergamer1879

Жыл бұрын

Isn't KZread blocked for you?

@MustNotContainSpaces

Жыл бұрын

@@reckergamer1879 being on KZread, you should have seen enough VPN-ads to know that they exist…

@rodia_the_smg_guy5575

Жыл бұрын

oh that's interesting

@BrutusAlbion

Жыл бұрын

​@@reckergamer1879 its always funny when a chinese person pops their head over the great chinese firewall. Double points if they shit on the rest of the world while still hiding behind their firewall pretending China is superior nation. Luckily most chinese people are just people like anyone else, just chilling out on the internet telling everyone they're a sussybaka.

@yuritarted984

Жыл бұрын

@@MustNotContainSpaces the 20th ccp congress is happening usually they don't really care if u use vpns but during this week they block it out

What I really love about Austrias road signs are those really old fashioned ones, where the "No motorcycles" sign has a really old motorcycle and the guy is wearing a scarf. Or the "No cars" sign shows you a car from the 1900s. The railroad sign that you see in 3:16 with the old steam locomotive on it is actually still in use in most parts of Europe today!

@AEIOU05

Жыл бұрын

I also love how pedestrians still wear hats on the signs

@leDespicable

Жыл бұрын

Seeing those old steam locomotives on a sign really throws me off sometimes, it' something you never see when growing up in Germany lol. I grew up either seeing signs with a fence on them to indicate a crossing with barriers, or an electric locomotive to indicate unguarded crossings. The fence has since been abolished, nowadays the only sign that's used is the one with the electric locomotive.

@varana

Жыл бұрын

@@leDespicable Growing up in Germany, I do remember the steam engine. ;) Germany changed the picture in the early 90s; before that, both Germanies had a steam train on the signs.

@Aphelia.

Жыл бұрын

I googled it, omg- I love how everyone is wearing hats on the signs lol

@SturmZebra13

Жыл бұрын

Belgium also has really old-school signs

2:45 And then get pancaked into oblivion by Thomas and Friends.

You need pictures in Europe because drivers speak many languages, but in countries where all drivers pretty much share the same language, worded signs make sense as you don't have to learn them (e.g., people familiar with Europe no stopping sign (who understand English) would understand the usa sign, whereas, people unfamiliar with the eu sign would have to guess what that symbol means)

@stephenlee5929

Жыл бұрын

Seems fair, USA has hardly any immigration. Readings easy, no other alphabets exist.

@tkralva.6668

Жыл бұрын

Except in the USA there is NO official language, so worded signs in one language, which is not an official language, makes no sense.

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenlee5929 Ahem...hardly any immigration? Have you seen our southern border lately? (Perhaps you mean LEGAL).

@fr89k

Жыл бұрын

Actually you shouldn't need to guess. The symbols are extremely clear. Or at least clear enough that you can react properly to them.

@realdragon

11 ай бұрын

Stop using different languages as the reason. Reading while you're driving is stupid idea in general

Ireland is kind of a special case. Most of their signs are in Vienna style, but their warning signs are the American-style yellow diamonds.

@vytah

Жыл бұрын

It's not that special, many countries do this. But all those countries also have some random differences from Vienna other than the warning sign shape, for example the Irish one-way road sign is round instead of square, no entry is a crossed arrow instead of a bar, dead end is white instead of blue, and so on.

@MindTheGap1

Жыл бұрын

The no stopping sign also has a white background

@BigboiiTone

Жыл бұрын

With all the famine and whiskey I'd imagine there are a lot of special cases

@oenrn

Жыл бұрын

Is that for all the American tourists who somehow think they're Irish because 200 years ago some Irish guy they've never met crossed the pond?

@ebnertra0004

Жыл бұрын

Japan does this, too. I think yellow diamond-style warning signs are a supported design in the Vienna Convention

Since you mentioned the MUTCD you should do a video on when the US spent millions on developing a new highway font (Clearview) only to learn after it had been installed that it was actually terrible and all Clearview signs needed to be reverted back to Highway Gothic. As a roadway engineer who does sign design it's a fascinating story as is when the signs were required to be changed from all caps to mixed case.

@MarcBookPro

Жыл бұрын

Except in Texas where they continue to install signs with the Clearview font.

@linkly9272

Жыл бұрын

Apparently the interm testing phase of it was reintroduced in March 2018, so unless there was another development since then, new signs may/may not use Clearview or Highway Gothic.

@ivanjermakov

Жыл бұрын

Vox made a great video on this topic

@RageXBlade

Жыл бұрын

As a roadsign manufacturer, the details of what signs are supposed to be in certain sizes and not in other is also interesting (and usually disregarded by our customers lol). Another interesting feature of road signs is the type of retro-reflective material that they are printed or laid onto. Fun fact: road signs are technically classified as a traffic control devices, which makes them sound way fancier than they really are.

@mack.attack

Жыл бұрын

They can use either one, I thought

US metric speed signs are circles where we still post both. US uses both road narrows signs, but more commonly the lane merge sign is both text and picture.

Australia made its own adaptation of America's MUTCD in 1964 and the current standards are still largely based on this (with some modifications and additions). So American street signs actually look very familiar to Australians! There's a few exceptions that have been picked up from the UN version. Old mph speed signs looks like the American ones but when Australia went metric they put a red circle around the kph speed signs to differentiate them, which is still the standard to this day.

@Jordan_Is_Here

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was looking at the thumbnail thinking the American ones look normal lol. Thanks for the insight into Australian signs :)

@347Jimmy

Жыл бұрын

Good explanation, I was yet another Aussie noticing the US signs were mostly familiar patterns

@AaronOfMpls

Жыл бұрын

The US MUTCD actually includes standards for metric speed limit signs. They put a black circle around the number, with "km/h" in small text below the circle. I don't think any have ever been posted, though.

@ScottMStolz

Жыл бұрын

The U.S. MUCTD used to specify that speed limit signs in metric had to have a circle around the number to make it more obvious that it was in km/h and not mph. The U.S. tried to convert to metric in the 70's but gave up, so the MUTCD actually specified how to design metric speed limit signs.

@ScottMStolz

Жыл бұрын

@@AaronOfMpls The metric signs were posted along several test corridors to see how they performed. Apparently they did not perform well, and these corridors were converted back to mph. I am told that you can see some metric signs near the borders, but I have never seen one in person.

As a roadsign manufacturer, the details of what signs are supposed to be in certain sizes and not in other is also interesting (and usually disregarded by our customers lol). Another interesting feature of road signs is the type of retro-reflective material that they are printed or laid onto. There are a lot of different patterns. Fun fact: In the USA, road signs are technically classified as a traffic control devices, which makes them sound way fancier than they really are. Source: Someone who reads the MUTCD files almost daily

@AaronOfMpls

Жыл бұрын

@RageXBlade: "(and usually disregarded by our customers lol)" In that vein, I've seen a few rural counties here in Minnesota that switched from the old state-standard county road signs (white squares) to US-standard (blue pentagons) ... and promptly put up signs that were too _small_ to read at highway speed. 🤦

@mehere8038

Жыл бұрын

well they are actually "traffic control devices" A give way or stop sign has a similar impact on traffic control to a roundabout or traffic lights doesn't it, (or at least it should if it's being used properly & it's use enforced), therefore they are traffic control devices, same as the others are, aren't they

@sternmg

11 ай бұрын

I bet that your customers are bureaucrats, so they will, like most people, grossly under-estimate that a stop sign on a multi-lane street must be at least 36” wide and tall.

@RageXBlade

11 ай бұрын

@@sternmg actually, most of them are construction or road work companies.

@alecerdmann8505

10 ай бұрын

@@AaronOfMpls FYI, the didn't switch from state-standard to US Standard. In Minnesota (I have lived here my whole life), the black and white squares are still used for County Roads that are only funded and maintained by the county. The blue pentagon with the gold stripe indicates a "County State-Aid Highway," sometimes abbreviated CSAH. That means that while it is a county highway, the county receives additional funding from the state to build and maintain these routes that are deemed more important than other county roads. The blue and gold coloring mimics the standard MN State Highway sign coloring. This doesn't change your point that some of these signs are two small for highway speeds, of course.

Here in Canada they follow more or less the same standards as US road signs, but less wording used and more pictograms because of bilingualism. Apparently the standard of yellow diamond warning signs is also used in Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and most surprisingly Ireland

@mehere8038

Жыл бұрын

yup yellow/orange diamonds are definitely the standard for "warning" signs in Australia. That means they're not legally binding info on them, just information to assist drivers. Legally binding signs are in other colours, I think any colour but yellow, but not sure on that. Stop sign's red & legally binding, one way's black & white & legally binding, speed limit signs are the European design in this & legally binding. Kinda weird Europe didn't adopt the same codes for warning signs, given, from this video, it was the US & related that were first

@hungtheheroluu

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget Myanmar/Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, which also use the yellow diamond warning signs.

@lzh4950

Жыл бұрын

@@hungtheheroluu Malaysia's warning signs are also often mounted on checkered white & black poles, like zebra crossing light poles in the UK & traffic light poles in the Netherlands

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

@@mehere8038 If Australia is following MUTCD, then yellow are precautionary, and black/red on white is regulatory (Speed Limits, No Parking, No Entry) and so forth. Also, MUTCD signs are generally LARGER to see than Vienna signs, thus easier to spot down the road, especially at night.

@geoffroi-le-Hook

Жыл бұрын

Canadian School Crossing signs have the US shape and Européen colour scheme

Signage is such an interesting topic, I hope we get a video on the signage on the highways! It has its own font and everything!

3:40 I can't believe de didn't make a lame joke about that...

It's worth noting that the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic was already a revised and amended version of the earlier 1949 Geneva Protocol and standardised roadsigns were already specified in their earliest predecessor, the 1909 "Convention with Respect to the International Circulation of Motor Vehicles" ratified by a handful of European countries.

@Rokegle135

Жыл бұрын

Y do you know this

@vez3834

Жыл бұрын

@@Rokegle135 Never underestimate nerds. We have powers you can only dream of.

@Rokegle135

Жыл бұрын

@@vez3834 until I lock y'all outside and force y'all to socialize

@vez3834

Жыл бұрын

@@Rokegle135 No, please no...

@somitomi

Жыл бұрын

@@Rokegle135 It happened to nudge a piece of information about early road signs I remembered from a book on the history of motorisation in my country, so I checked the book to find the date and then read a bit about the various conventions on international road traffic.

Me a U.S. based Civil Engineer opening this video: "Oh boy! I hope Sam talks about the history of the MUTCD, an extremely dense and technical manual of almost no interest to anyone outside my specific field" As I glance at the 800 some odd pages of the my 2009 edition on a shelf approximately 5 feet away from my computer.

@ArtiePenguin1

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately he didn't. These videos (on the Half as Interesting channel) are his low effort videos. He'd much rather put a full one minute ad at the end of the video. Also, Sam should have noted that AASHO is now AASHTO (pronounced "ash-tow").

@RichTCS

Жыл бұрын

As a young civil engineer many years ago, I got a free copy of the MUTCD when our office accidentally ordered two copies instead of just one. I was very proud to keep it for a long time until my copy was several versions out of date. Now I can just get it online…!

@ArtiePenguin1

Жыл бұрын

@@RichTCS It's nice that the US government offers the document for free online. Canada's MUTCD equivalent (MUTCDC) is only offered for a high price of around $1600.

@soundscape26

Жыл бұрын

@@ArtiePenguin1 Ads help pay the bills.

@ArtiePenguin1

Жыл бұрын

@@soundscape26 Yes I understand that, but I pay for YT Premium so it's annoying to see an ad. Also, it's a whole minute of advertisement in a 6 minute video. That means 17% of the video is entirely advertising. That's too big of a ratio. A 30 second ad would be more appropriate.

There actually is a road in the US that is marked in kilometers. Interstate 19 is the country's only continuous highway that lists distances in kilometers, not miles. Starting just north of the border at Nogales, Interstate 19 stretches 101 kilometers to Tucson.

@Ellestra

Жыл бұрын

In Hawaii roads are marked in both miles and kilometers

@CL-go2ji

Жыл бұрын

How did that hapen?

@JP-pq9xi

Жыл бұрын

As you get closer to the Tijuana border in San Diego, they start listing the next exit in kilometers. It's kind of trippy to see KM on US freeway signs.

@tstcikhthys

Жыл бұрын

It's marked in _kilometres,_ but yes.

@BryanLu0

Жыл бұрын

@@tstcikhthys American English spells it meter

Here in Australia, we mostly seem to use the American style signs. I never even considered that there were different styles of signs beyond putting it in their native language.

1:33 Bless you!

living in australia. literally most of the US signs you showed we have identical if not very similiar

@Robert-cu9bm

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry officer I thought the sign meant 100mph.

@FemboysnDarksouls

Жыл бұрын

@just i c e what. im so confused

@davidty2006

Жыл бұрын

Australia is just america plus britain combined.

@mxchump

Жыл бұрын

Because a lot of Americans like to compare us to the EU and call them the rest of the world. A quick look through this comment sections shows a lot of countries share signs with the US

When watching American movies, I always just thought that those signs were set pieces to make everything look a bit vintage because surely no country would have such impractical signs like tha- oh

@jimzecca3961

Жыл бұрын

How are they not practical? They're different than signs in other parts of the world but they're very distinctly designed and make a lot of use of different sizes, colors, shapes as well as symbols and words.

@fmg_draws

Жыл бұрын

@@jimzecca3961 okay yeah, I‘m sure they make a lot of sense if you’re used to them. You just to have to imagine that little German me is watching tv and sees those signs with a lot of words on them and is confused because you‘d kind of have to read a little text every time you see one

@arcadeshift5071

Жыл бұрын

​@@fmg_draws We don't have to read much of anything. Seeing a sign we've seen 10000000 times is recognizable with or without text (i.e. familiar size/shape/color/font of a particular sign). I feel bad for non-English speakers in the US, though.

@arcadeshift5071

Жыл бұрын

I've driven in mainland Europe and the US (American, hello). Europe is more practical and uniform. It's neat, it makes sense, and its signs and rules apply to many different countries. American-exceptionalism aside, does it really matter that we have different looking traffic signs? We're a different continent with a different history and have over 100 years of driving pedigree in which we're all familiar with our traffic signs. I understand people from all over the world can visit, rent cars, and get confused but 99% of us on the roads each day are already familiar with our "oddball" signs. I like when countries and continents have different idiosyncrasies. I didn't need to take a test to understand EU country's road signs, I just kind of figured it out. If you're a European driving in the US, I bet you will know the bright red sign at intersections means "stop" in whatever your native language is, even if you don't speak English.

@realdragon

11 ай бұрын

There's a lot about american movies I thought that were just in the movie. I remember watching some american movie as a kid and woman was giving birth, so husband started driving her to hospital with car. At that moment I though "Oh they're not calling ambulance to make it more dramatic"

The signal for no stopping in Brazil is also different. It's like the signal for no parking in the US but when there's X crossing it also means that you cannot stop. Edit: Road narrows: Similar to the US signal but it has a symbol

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

The "no parking" sign in Brasil has an E instead of P, so there you go...

@lzh4950

Ай бұрын

Meanwhile Singapore uses a blue rectangle sign "Narrow lanes ahead" accompanied by a red rectangular 'SLOW' sign

Most of South America uses a mix as well, with the no parking sign (crossed out P) being a crossed out E (for prohibido estacionar), similar to the US

@julieharden2433

Жыл бұрын

Same in Mexico.

@theaguirre1996

Жыл бұрын

Yes. In South America, stop signs are "PARE", whereas in Central America and Mexico say "ALTO".

@wta1518

Жыл бұрын

@@theaguirre1996 The US also has PARE signs in Puerto Rico.

Just a small stumble in the thumbnail, as I'm sure other have pointed it out as well: The european one way sign is rectangular. The sign you put there means you can only turn right at the intersection (but it may be a two way road)

@reeveliya9294

Жыл бұрын

Also the sign with only one bar means you are allowed to park for about 15min :) With the X it means not parking at all.

@paulh.9526

Жыл бұрын

​@Reeveliya The parking thing seems to be more country specific. In France, it's just no parking. The difference between stopping and parking is by purpose, it's a stop if you are picking up or dropping of people or cargo

2 things that might need to be added to this issue: 1. European signs are designed to be recognized even when obstructed by dirt or snow, at least the important ones. Stop sign is unique, as are several others. 2. It also helps analphabets, if I couldn't read, I would probably be completely lost in the US. In Europe you just learn the basic shapes and colours.

@jimzecca3961

Жыл бұрын

Reading is probably a good thing to be able to do before you try to drive. How do you pass the test to get a license? But I'm also sure that most people, even poor readers and those that don't speak English, could easily understand most US road signs. A yellow diamond with a deer jumping has no words and means watch out for deer. If it's red and it's an octagon it's a stop sign. Etc

@kotzpenner

Жыл бұрын

@@jimzecca3961 you can finish your license at least in Germany if you can’t read. There is even a special test for it where you’re read the questions aloud. It’s part of the overall non-discrimination effort. Also I obviously mean the signs that are just a rectangle with Text in them, like in the video.

@DJstarrfish

2 ай бұрын

Re 1st point - What, you mean like _all_ important signs? Are you implying that Americans use red octagons for something other than the stop sign?

@kotzpenner

2 ай бұрын

@@DJstarrfish yeah all important signs. No I never said the US uses octagons for something else than STOP. But maybe other countries do, it was just an example.

@lzh4950

Ай бұрын

Uniquely Japan used an inverted red triangle instead as a stop sign

The No Stopping sign at the start of the video intrigued me when I first saw it in real life. The look was familiar through movies and TV shows, but I had no idea what it meant. The fact that it was everywhere, not just near rail crossings, drawbridges, roadworks or whatever, meant there was no context to interpret it.

@velvetbutterfly

Жыл бұрын

If only there was a sign in the real world in your country that appeared everywhere a car could go with a uniform design

@albertbatfinder5240

Жыл бұрын

@@velvetbutterfly not sure what you mean. I am Australian and we don’t have the blue circle, red border, red cross sign. First time I drove in Europe 40 years ago, the sign didn’t register to me as having any discernible meaning, even though it was familiar. It’s basically uninterpretable. I can’t think of a sign with less intrinsic meaning. All other Vienna Convention, North American, South American, Asian and African signs are could work out. To this day, I don’t know how they settled on blue and red, let alone the circle. The cross, admittedly is obvious. Why not just the cross?

@danielbishop1863

Жыл бұрын

@@albertbatfinder5240 : Yeah. Text-based signage does require drivers to know English, but if you do, it's totally obvious what "no stopping" or "do not pass" means. If this video hadn't explained it, I'd *never* intuit the Vienna "no stopping" sign. I'd assume that the big red X indicates a prohibition on something, but *what*?

@jakubadamczyk1523

Жыл бұрын

@@albertbatfinder5240 Do you have a better idea for "no stopping" sign? So... There's also someting like ✨no layover ✨represented by one "diagonal" line. So there's an idea: No stopping has these lines: X when no layover has this: /

@albertbatfinder5240

Жыл бұрын

@@jakubadamczyk1523 really, I cannot. I can think of any number of equally meaningless signs for No Stopping, so it makes me wonder how they all agreed on the existing one. One thing we can all agree on is that the red octagon, white border, white text with the word STOP in it (whatever language it’s written in) is probably one of the most universally recognised signs. So perhaps 🤔 a red octagon, white border, white diagonal (the universal “do not” symbol) might do the trick. Maybe with a little car in it. You wouldn’t want to detract from the effectiveness of the stop sign as it appears now, but it’s all I can think of. Your idea of the X and the / is good. Maybe just put it in an octagon, so there’s just a slight subconscious link back to the STOP sign, but not make it red? We have No Stopping, No Standing, and No Parking as three different levels of prohibition, so maybe there’s room for one, two or three slashes?

If you ever are in Europe and say: "damn those are ugly signs" you are in Austria

@wta1518

Жыл бұрын

No, you're just in Europe. I want to punch whoever thought red on blue was a good combination in the throat.

@Jabberwockybird

Жыл бұрын

Austria has never been known for their good visual artists. Musicians perhaps, but yeah, let's not talk about the painters.

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

If you are ever in Europe driving on a freeway and the supplemental signs have a paragraph of text, you are in Italy.

@CaroAbebe

Жыл бұрын

@@Jabberwockybird Actually, that’s not true. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Maria Lassnig, Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rosina Wachtmeister, Albin Egger-Lienz, to Name just a few. If you haven’t seen any of their works or at least heard some of these names, you can’t be into arts.

@jakubadamczyk1523

Жыл бұрын

@@CaroAbebe It was a joke about Hitler 🤦‍♂

What I also like about the non-US system is that the shapes and colours already give a way (part of) the meaning of the sign. For example, the Stop sign is the only octagonal one. So if in case of mist, snow, vandalism or something else only a shape is visible, you still know it's a stop sign. The same applies to the 'give priority' sign (only inverted triangle) and 'priority road' (only tilted square). And even for other signs you can see part of the meaning: a round red and white (and possibly black) sign is always a prohibition, a round blue and white sign is a commandment, and a triangular red and white (and again possibly black) sign is a warning. At least that's how it works in the Netherlands but I've seen this or a similar system in most European countries I've been in.

@jeffmorris5802

Жыл бұрын

Uh... Pretty sure the US stop sign is the only octagonal sign in the US.

@derpinator4912

Жыл бұрын

This is also true in the US. For example, a yellow diamond is a warning, if it's a black and white rectangle it's a legal thing like a one way or speed limit, the stop and yeild (give priority?) signs are the one ones with their shape, etc.

@jasonreed7522

Жыл бұрын

US signs follow similar principles. And text + background color indicates the meaning of the sign. Black on White means its a law, break it and you get a ticket. Black on Yellow is an advisory, like for a steep hill or recommend speed for a turn (based on tactor trailer listing). Its not illegal to ignore but physics doesn't give tickets, it gives crashes. (I think if you aren't technically speeding but are going too fast for road conditioning you can still get in legal trouble, its not a hard line but if you crash from excessive speed its pretty clear you crossed it) White on Green is an navigational aid like a steet name or indicator city. (Indicator city being a well known town/city in the direction the road goes, usually paired with distance to that city) And White on Blue is an attractions advisory so things like gas, hotels, restaurants, campgrounds. (And i believe brown and white is permited to indicate natural features like a lake or trailhead for a mountain) I know purple gets used sometimes but i forget its connotations. Regardless, US signs have basically all the same benefits in that color and shape indicates alot of importance even when partially or fully obscured. And if you really can't see the signs you should either slow down or get off the road because it isn't safe to be on.

@fullfungo

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean *give away* ?

@killerbee.13

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonreed7522 White on blue also entirely replaces white on green on highways that connect directly to airports (at least in my area) though I don't entirely know why

Australia and NZ use an interesting blend of MUTCD and Vienna Convention styled signage. Canada's signs are also MUTCD styled, with Quebec having more picture - rather than word - based signage. Also, speaking of the federal gov't extorting DOTs.. From 1956 to 1993, Florida would give their US route shield signs various colors rather than the plain black and white signs, in order to make the routes more identifiable. This is also why state road A1A is A1A and not just 1, as to prevent confusion with US 1. Unfortunately, FHWA was so offended by Florida getting colorful with their signs that they threatened to pull funding from Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) over it, despite FDOT spending state money on it.

@danielbishop1863

Жыл бұрын

Arizona also tried colored shields, except that the color was based on the direction (orange for north, green for south, brown for east, and blue for west). Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_shield

I personally like the signs with words because there’s no ambiguity or guessing as to what the sign means. I feel the same when I’m on a website and there are a bunch of random icons and I have no idea what they mean and end up clicking on the wrong thing.

@mewpilot8742

Жыл бұрын

...you have to learn and know all the signs in order to hold a driver license at least in functioning countries if you have to "guess" what a road sign means you absolutely should not drive

@danielcraig243

Жыл бұрын

Do you guess how to drive a car?

@Jabberwockybird

Жыл бұрын

It's almost as if written language was an improved way to communicate ideas.

@merlin9702

Жыл бұрын

@@Jabberwockybird Why are you watching videos instead of reading books then?

@lngvly22

7 ай бұрын

@@mewpilot8742 You also have to be able to read to hold a driver’s license. Text allows you to understand a sign even that you may never have seen before instantaneously

While warning signs in Europe use pictograms wherever possible, if one cannot be established due to the difficulty of making a pictogram, an exclamation mark in a red triangle is used followed by a plate below it showing the nature of the hazard in the local language(s) whereas in the US, the nature of the hazard is shown inside the yellow diamond warning sign.

@hazgebu

Жыл бұрын

There are mostly triangles with the hazard shown inside all over Europe. Not just a exclamation mark, they are pretty rare. At least in the DACH - IT - BENELUX region

@Moviefreak893

Жыл бұрын

@@hazgebu in my little town here in Finland there is an Exclamation Triangle with a text below that just says "Dangerous intersection"

@annabelholland

Жыл бұрын

@@hazgebu your comment is very similar to mine. While the use of an exclamation mark (other danger) road sign may be uncommon in your area, it is quite common in my area (UK) as there are hazards that are difficult or impossible to use a pictogram for. These include (from what i've seen): blind summit lorries turning hidden dip

@mjudec

Жыл бұрын

Yup. My favourite one was in Southern Scotland (somewhere near Dumfries I'm sure) Which was a warning triangle with an exclamation mark, then the sign underneath.... "OTTERS" Beautiful.

@stephenlee5929

Жыл бұрын

@@mjudec Are the Otters dangerous, or do they distract drivers from the vey dangerous haggises?

That "existential urbanist" bit was brilliant.

In Brazil a lot of those signs look the same as in the US but there some changes, mainly because text signs are no that common here, text is more common for regulatory signs ("pare" is a notorious one) and directional signs (highways names, city names, toll booths, km indicator, etc.) but most of the rest are just images, this is good at least for foreign people and it will take down some regionalisms in what the sign mean. I grew up in the south of Brazil and most of the traffic lights are called "sinaleira", although in the southeast where I current live, it's called "semáforo".

Many of us in the traffic engineering profession refer to the MUTCD like (pronounced) "Mutt-Seed." Image based signs are still preferred since there's a little lower level 9f distraction to road users, but, "word" signs have the advantage of being able to be used for special situations.

i live in germany, and another difference to america is that we have a real "written" test to get a drivers liscence. some of the signs are not very intuitive but road safety is among the highest in the world here.

@venangoproductions

Жыл бұрын

Oh i remember that

@MainInternetUser

Жыл бұрын

Because we learn it but in america they make it easy so idiots can drive

@oakenshadow6763

Жыл бұрын

We have a writen test. It's just poorly writen and way too easy. -__-

@vincentking8874

Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard rumors that some places in the states have legit tests but the one I actually took was a joke.

@mardiffv.8775

Жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with German road signs, your neighbor from the Netherlands.

I really appreciate Sam's dedication to pronouncing the acronym as mutt-kid

@OmnipotentPotato

Жыл бұрын

And the little "Gesundheit" at the bottom of the screen when he said "AASHU"

@AndyGneiss

Жыл бұрын

As someone who uses the MUTCD at work, I also enjoyed that. We just say the five letters when talking about it, though.

@ChristianAkacro

Жыл бұрын

I herd u liek mutt-kids?

@RichTCS

Жыл бұрын

@@AndyGneiss Same here. I’ve never heard it pronounced the way he says it until this video ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Estelise

Жыл бұрын

Right? When in fact the industry spells it out as M-U-T-C-D when talking about it. I loved it. Made me smile!

1:20 Well, Ijust learned about three more YT channels to look for in that space. Awesome, thanks HAI!

Australia has US-style road signs except speed limits, which are Euro-style, from the shift to metric in the 70s.

Boy I sure hope it's more interesting than "we ain't letting no standard dictate what to do"...

@silly_lil_guy

Жыл бұрын

i love my country 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ Still cis btw probably

@dominikk9657

Жыл бұрын

@@silly_lil_guy TF?

@BreadAccountant

Жыл бұрын

it wasn't

@John_C_J

Жыл бұрын

Well, it is exactly that. Similar to every other "why is x in US different from the rest of the world?" video.

@toobig7150

Жыл бұрын

@@John_C_J I hope that it doesn't have a really really bad influence into the development and potential growth of us. Because there's now way US isn't going to ignore factually better way of doing healthcare, public transport, social equality and more just because " we are different" mentality... Right?

Australian road signs are a combination of the UK and US systems. We basically cherry picked the best sign for the job from both, and then added highway numbers which no-one understands or cares about because overseas people like them.

@thestupidguy806

Жыл бұрын

i forgot we had numbers. the names make sense to me

@davidty2006

Жыл бұрын

UK casually using european style signage whilst using the imperial system for speed and metric for weight. Yep.

@Heroesrules1994

Жыл бұрын

Always annoying when google maps tells you to take state route x instead of just telling you the highway name.

Here is component engagement just for you mister video narrator! I love this channel!!!

Even the form of important signs makes sense. You can identify them from the back or if covered by snow. Such as Stop, right,of way, yield.

In Indonesia, "No Stopping" is a red-slashed "S" in a white disc with red circle border. Even if the map says we're a signatory of the Vienna convention.

@darwinqpenaflorida3797

Жыл бұрын

In a friendly Philippines(Indonesia's best friend) it was signatory and ratified since 1975 but Indonesia are still pending on ratification so no worries for us because Filipino motorists are welcome to drive in Indonesia roads because we are ASEAN and using driver license from the Philippines are welcome too so road signs in the Philippines and Indonesia are different but much similar too such as Clearview

It is quite noticable in anime too when all the signs are Vienna Convention type.

I would love a deeper dive into this subject, would a Wendover Productions video be possible on Nebula? 👀

Brazil's "no stop" sign is similar to the "no parking" (a white circle with red borders like the speed limits one, an E and a /), but, instead of a single slash, it has the red X

@nicolasmfa

Жыл бұрын

And we have a mix of signs styles for different uses, exemple, the speed bump WARNING sing its yellow with a bump ilustration, as all the WARNING sings, while a PROHIBITED one like praking, its white with the red border and a ilustration or a word

Japan is a weird hybrid, where most general regulatory signs follow the Vienna convention, while the warning signs follow loosely to the MUTCD. The stop sign, called 一時停止, is an downwards-pointed triangle reading 止まれ (lit. "Stop" as a command). And, most of the niche signs are written in Japanese. I guess, it's essential to be able to read a five-character Kanji compound while traveling at 80 km/h. Also, they have no Yield sign (if you want to stay kosher with how you use supplemental plaques...)

@alanlight7740

Жыл бұрын

A few years back Japan started adding the English word "STOP" to their stop signs, in addition to "止まれ". The funny thing is that until 1963 they used the red octagon for a stop sign.

@quackcement

Жыл бұрын

Japanese fire hydrant signs are the most unusual

@williammerkel1410

Жыл бұрын

Geneva Convention and Japan are two things you typically don't associate with each other.

@lzh4950

Жыл бұрын

Thought Yield/Give way signs in Japan were the inverted white triangular ones with a red border & the characters "徐行" inside

@quackcement

Жыл бұрын

@@lzh4950 yes there's a few differences, but I actually found driving in japan very easy. it only seemed like a slight difference, drivers seemed alot more patient

The UK has a very interesting take on road signage which I think would make a good video, but in short while they do mostly conform to the Vienna convention we also spearheaded the use of lowercase letters in signage and a whole lot of the image based signs we use are decently different design wise

I'm not sure there's any pressing need to change road signs just as long as they're clear. I drive in the UK, in Europe, in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and have never found any difficulty. Besides, variety is what you hope for when travelling overseas.

The European system using symbols makes much more sense. When traveling by car across the continent, every few hours you will arrive in a different country speaking a different language. Commonly used symbols are understood by all. In the US, people speak the same language (and suffer a bit from the "everyone must know English" + "no one will tell me what to do" complexes), so it's not a problem to verbally describe the meaning of road signs instead of symbols.

@dubious6718

Жыл бұрын

Only half the population in the US can read English..

@DrBernon

Жыл бұрын

But they could have both. Like the stop sign. A symbol and the text they love so much. But no...

@deadpie1234

Жыл бұрын

​@@DrBernon almost all american signs are just a symbol with text on them, and we already have a ton of signs that are only symbols basically the only signs that are text alone are very obscure or temporary ones, or ones that have no real impact on safety

@kablamo7599

Жыл бұрын

@@DrBernon its like half an half of which do and dont

Glad to see my faves Adam Something and Not Just Bikes be recognised for their hard work at 1:20

@6z0

4 ай бұрын

Well of course. They’re all Nebula partners

I can't even get used to Oregon's weird "SPEED 55" instead of "SPEED LIMIT 55" signs

I love the pronunciations of those acronyms

The only sign I know that was changed to the international style is the "yield" one. Originally yellow with the word on it, it was changed to white with a red border with a small "yield" on it.

@cornpowa

Жыл бұрын

It's a mix of both in my state.

@lzh4950

Ай бұрын

Meanwhile Japan's "slow down" (徐行) sign looks like the 'yield' sign

10th Amendment is what defends the State's power over the roads. SCOTUS ruled that NHTSA is allowed to pull Federal funding, as an exercise of the Spending Power that Congress holds, as long as the condition attached isn't coercive. For example, when they wanted States to raise the drinking age to 21, they threatened to pull 10% of Federal funding; since it was only 10% it was ruled as non-coercive. This is also known as a 'Congressional String'. Also, we Detroiters know Henry Ford didn't invent the car, he invented the moving assembly line!! 🚘

Sam's insistence on using acronyms makes this video so much better

I love these videos!!

i love the stock footage at 5:15

Although China didn’t sign the Vienna convention, their road sign is still mostly the same as ones from Vienna convention, not hard for recognize the signs with the same meaning. I actually think the Chinese system makes more sense. Red border is reserved for prohibitive signs like no parking, no entry etc. while warning signs have a black border. In EU it’s only the difference in shape differentiate between the two kind, they all have red borders. (But I argue in rainy conditions it might not be easy to tell a triangle from a circle at distance with rain water on the lens/windshield)

@Ellestra

Жыл бұрын

In Poland they also have different background colour as the warning ones have yellow not white background. Still, it generally is easier to tell apart shapes so simple and different as circles and triangles than colors in bad weather conditions.

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Here in England, we had very similar written road signs, on a white square background, new ones being made right up into the late 60s. I seem to think that it was a combination of it being thought to be a good idea and then actually joining the EEC, that we adopted the 'internarional' set of roadsigns that they were using.

To be fair, that draw bridge sign is really unintuitive ... "Draw bridge" hits the brain much quicker

@danielbishop1863

Жыл бұрын

I think that one is perfectly intuitive. Some of the other Vienna signs (like "no passing") are not, though.

in defence of the US, Australia and Canada - those countries (bar the US which has *one*) do not have international borders with non-native speaking languages that can easily be crossed. So having the majority language (i.e. English) written signs isn't as awful as it would be in say, Germany, which can easily be accessed by road by anyone in Europe. However European road signage is incredibly easy to read and understand in comparison. A simple glance at any European sign - even as someone who hasn't studied at all - is enough to understand the meaning (with a few exceptions, such as "no stopping"), whereas in the US system you have to read an entire sign before you necessarily understand the meaning. For example: A picture of a set of traffic lights, in a red triangle warns a driver of "Traffic lights ahead", whereas on a US system you would have to read a sign saying "TRAFFIC LIGHTS AHEAD" which takes more than a quick glance.

@pa28cfi

Жыл бұрын

We have quite a few yellow diamond signs with little to no writing on them. In your example, we have a yellow diamond sign with a picture of a traffic signal. Underneath there are sometimes supplementary rectangular yellow signs saying "signal ahead," or just "ahead."

@jukebox_heroperson3994

Жыл бұрын

@@pa28cfi Or arrows for upcoming turns

@jaycee330

Жыл бұрын

One problem with Vienna signs is that (especially at high speed), they are smaller than the yellow diamonds, which makes them harder to read at a distance or speed.

@LadislausKallig

Жыл бұрын

@@jaycee330 except simple bright pictures are easier to read from the distance than 2-3 lines of text. Even if they are a bit smaller. Also they aren't just random pictures, their colours are unified. So red signs prohibit something or tell about danger, blue signs give information, white signs give less important information and etc. It's really easy to recognise them even from the big distances.

@Alias_Anybody

Жыл бұрын

It also makes it easier to differentiate actual rules from signs telling you distance and direction to place or city X. And ads. "Hire lawyer now" is just not as important as "road ends here".

1:22 It's really important to curve your slow klaxon when encountering a double drive horn.

Awesome video!!

There is a mistake in the thumbnail. The one way sign should be square instead of circle. The circle means mandatory right turn.

@Jabberwockybird

Жыл бұрын

Man, it would be so much easier to know that if they had only written the phrase on the sign.

Wow an informative video with no crazy intro, no filler, and gets right into it? Subscribed in the first minute.

In Indonesia, we use the diamond yellow warning sign with images replacing the words. The no stopping sign uses a red circle and a line slashing the letter S. The same is use for no parking slashing the letter P.

I never seen that drawbridge sign before but I figured that's what that sign meant before I was told what that means I could see the water waves I could see the bridge raised and an angle I could see it not connected to the road. it's a win-lose-or-draw version of a drawbridge. if I had to convince someone to say the word drawbridge in 60 seconds without using any letters or numbers that would probably something similar to why I go for. you forgot to mention the other bugaboo about miles per hour versus kilometers per hour.

I will say, the words "Draw bridge" would definitely take me less time to figure out than the associated pictogram

@igorswies5913

Жыл бұрын

_brings out a pencil_ _starts drawing a bridge_

@mardiffv.8775

Жыл бұрын

When on holiday in Germany look out for the word Zugbrücke. Oh wait, a pictogram is much easier.

@keco185

Жыл бұрын

@@mardiffv.8775 in Eurasia pictograms make more sense because of diversity in language. In the US almost everyone knows enough English to understand what a bridge is.

@mardiffv.8775

Жыл бұрын

@@keco185 True what you say, but I can see in flash a pictogram faster then written language. But Americans want to do things American, so Americans want to be different.

"... increases comment engagement..." 🤣🤣🤣 Really takes the wind out of trolling. Nicely done!

I know here in Australia (Queensland?) they tried the words based vs picture based for "No U turn at traffic signals unless signed" sign and the picture based one was more well received.

@coover65

Жыл бұрын

Maybe we should use picture signs. The 'KEEP LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING" signs get ignored, at least on the M1 between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

@lzh4950

Ай бұрын

SIngapore meanwhile has a mix of both pictorial-based & more wordy signs e.g. a (blue) U-turn sign (otherwise U-turns are banned at traffic junctions by default) accompanied by a yellow sign "Vehicles not exceeding 2500kg in unladen weight"

I actually like Canada's "no stopping" sign better than the Vienna Convention OR American system. It's image-based (so there's no language issues), and features a black octagon (obviously representing a stop sign) crossed out with a red slash, inside a red circle with a white background. It's easy to understand because a stop sign means stop (that's internationally-known), and to cross it out means you are not permitted to stop there. The sign is occasionally accompanied by the time periods of the week and day when stopping is not permitted*. It also has a correlate in the "no parking" sign, which is the same, but instead of an octagon, a big letter P is crossed out instead, but I think that one could be improved on (since to understand this, you need to know a bit of English). I always wondered what those big red x's on a blue background were when I visited Italy. Fortunately, I didn't get a ticket, but I legitimately could have. *For example, it might read 07:00 - 17:00 (yes, 24 hour time), and then Mon-Fri below the sign in black text. I'm not crazy about the Mon-Fri, because it requires a rudimentary understanding of English to comprehend, but the worst thing that could happen is a driver came on a weekend between 0700 and 1700 and didn't stop there, even though they could've. Misinterpretation of the sign due to language issues will not result in a fine, just minor inconvenience.

@OntarioTrafficMan

Жыл бұрын

I'd generally prefer if Canadian signs were more in line with international signs but the Canadian No Stopping sign is one example which I think is better than the US or International one. My least favourite Canadian traffic sign is the speed limit sign. It is silly that we use such a similar sign to the US while we use km/h and they use mph.

@ThePizzabrothersGaming

11 ай бұрын

The No stopping sign is a bit arbitrary but what's nice is that it's similar to the no parking sign. No parking is a single diagonal line so the no stopping sign is just a 'harsher' no parking sign

@automation7295

14 күн бұрын

If you all were used to Vienna Convention signs, then I'm sure you know the difference between "no stopping" and "no parking" pretty quickly. I'm used to Vienna Convention signs, so I know "no stopping" are blue background with red X and "no parking" are blue background with red slash. I'm sure more European drivers are used to Vienna Convention signs

Having two standards isn’t a particularly standardised standard. USB-C : hold my beer.

brazil uses mostly european signs, but our no parking sign is based on the american one (it’s the same but with an E for estacionar instead of P for parking) and the no stopping is just like the no parking but with a double cross like the european sign. also our stop signs say PARE

The main thing I got from this video is that it's only NASA and the US department of defence that makes good abbreviations

In Mexico is the same, we pretty much just look at the other side of the river see wathever looks fine and try to immitate as best as possible without knowing wether that would work or not.

TL;DR: most road signs were designed or popularized in America; and drivers are broadly literate and can recognize english words faster than abstract signals in most circumstances.

*Getting pancaked into oblivion by Thomas and Friends* will from now on be my wording for car crash

From Canada: I don't know about Europe but city street signs we have are variations on a theme No Stopping, No Parking, No Waiting. Any of them may be modified with time of day. not certain how thse nuances would be done pictographically.

1:39 “Erection” (Peter Griffin laugh)

Another thing that's different is directional signs. European signs focus alot more in cities while US signs focus more on the route number and the direction of travel. Also states can choose what cities to put on the directional signs and some them pick some really stupid stuff (NC signing Biltmore Estate/Hickory/Statesville on I40, PA religiously signing Hazelton on I81, Missouri signing Memphis in ST Louis but going to Cape Girardeau as soon as you leave, and the worst of all Colorado signing Limon on I70 even though Limon only has 2000 people)

@Budymierdas

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Lim on these nuts

@ooooneeee

Жыл бұрын

deepest road sign lore

@danielbishop1863

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There's famously a distance sign on Interstate 10, just after you cross westwards over the Sabine River, that says: Beaumont 23 El Paso 857 It doesn't include the much larger cities of San Antonio and Houston, but makes a point to include *El Paso* just to brag about how big Texas is.

@Kriss_L

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@@danielbishop1863 Yep, Texas is so big it is less than half the size of Alaska.

@thomasrinschler6783

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There's KZread channel called Control City Freak that analyzes the control cities of the various US Interstates. Limon and PA/NC signing are some of his biggest complaints.

In australia the no stopping sign looks like a rectangle like US but red background and white text with an arrow pointing to where to not stop

I've often wondered why this is, so thanks for explaining it in such an easy to understand manner! 😃 I've often been concerned though - Given the U.S. has Spanish and English as native, plus French, German, Italian and Welsh as community languages in various places - That some of the essential signage (Speed limits and level crossing 🛤 warnings) isn't given in a language-neutral fashion. ⚠ The existing US speed limit signs could easily be converted by nothing simpler than the addition of a red ring around the posted speed limit 🔴 and a plate with the standardised steam loco graphic could always be added below the U.S. standard R❌R one. 💡

3:26 "if i was in the Soviet union, i would just speed lol"

0:42 the Rest of the worlds sign for keep left is a right pointing arrow. Clever...

@velvetbutterfly

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They're typically pointed at the lane in question

@velvetbutterfly

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Also remember the side people drive on is inverted

@TheZett

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@@velvetbutterfly Nearly all of Europe drives on the same side as the Americans. Only the British, their former colonies and some asian countries drive on the left.

@automation7295

14 күн бұрын

These blue circle with an arrow are called mandatory signs.

Chile:why not both? Chile uses the Ecuador road signs but they also have Euro style red triangle pedestrian crossings and blue circular keep left/right and cycle path signs(formerly yellow and red prior to 2003,same as Ecuador)

Up here in Ontario, our signs are basically 95% MUTCD format, but we went for the Vienna Convention's more icon-based format, instead of text-based format, simply becuase we have two languages... sure, you might see an orange sign that says "CONSTRUCTION ZONE BEGINS / ZONE DU CONSTRUCTION DEBUT" but instead of "Pavement Narrows", you'll see the Vienna convention icon inside the yellow caution square. at least Canada, british columbia, ontario, and quebec try to make their signs look as close to the american ones as possible, for cross-border traffic.

Why do I get the feeling that Half as Interesting is deep down, is seething with ANGER that the US refuses to “get with the rest” of the world? I kind of get that indirect feeling with his videos lately.

@Labyrinth6000

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@hypertechcoffee yeah Sam thinks the US should be like Europe when the whole reason why the Us broke away with Europe was for freedom. In Europe you can be arrested for criticizing/offensive speech or for simply owning a firearm for self-defense. Never want my country to turn into Europe.

@krashd

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Most Americans who travel the world feel like that after seeing other developed countries.

Yeah the Stop sign is just too iconic to us Americans. Being the main reference for an Octagon. 🛑

@xdn22

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EU also uses the octagon