Also a good guide to road signs in about 70 or so other countries.
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it seems that a few of you are confused by German road signs in particular how this one can mean bicycles only but this one means no trucks well Germany follows the Vienna convention on road signs and signals which is used in several dozen countries all over the world and although the details vary from country to Country the basic principles are always the same triangles with red borders are warning signs rectangular signs give information arrowheads give directions round signs are for instructions if they are blue then they either reserve the road for a specific type of Road user or they give positive orders if they have a red border then they show either a limit or a Prohibition even if there is no red diagonal line through them and then there are special signs regulating priority at Junctions and that’s basically it
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Those priority signs are different so you can distinguish them even when looking at them from behind
You are NOT German. Your German is so bad I barely understand you. Please, just go back to the UK
The diagonal lines really make the sign read 🚫 prohibition
again proof that the us is extra
That's a really bad idea if you give a shit about people who cannot distinguish between blue and red. Sure, it's less common than red-green color blind, but there have always been people who can't see color at all. So, IMO they fucked up
Ez signs
Estonia also has the same. And i'm pretty sure most of Europe too, doesn't it?
The best thing about this is as you mentioned that it’s universal for most of Europe
What bugs me the most, as a german learning person, is the use of "frei"
On the road: the thing mentioned doesn't apply to a type of vehicle, etc
Everywhere else: the thing mentioned is just not there at all
what if you have monochromatic colorblindness?
sorry, i meant to say
what if you have monochromatic colourblindness?
The most confusing ones are in South America: several countries ther use almost identical red circle â• signs for "must" and "must not", ohne with a stripe for the later. Everywhere else either of these are a ban.
You mean there are countries who do not have these international road signs? Amazing.
America could never
Totally makes sense
It's actually genius because I've never thought the part where "prohibition ends" using the diagonal bars
Wie learned at school :
rund und rot ist immer ein Verbot —- Like
red and round is always a prohibition.
Rund und blau das tu genau —- like round and blue it’s what to do
I have even seen stop signs with a yellow reflexive border around them following the specific shape. I assume this was done bmfor better visibility during night. Only seen them in 3 places so far.
Not confusing at all in my opinion. We visited Germany on motorbikes last summer with my friends. Greetings from Finland.
how is that confusing to people. THey're literally completely different colors. How is anyone that isn't colorblind with a kindergarten level of education confused by that.
They're easy to understand it's just Americans struggling because they're poorly educated
i'm confused by Germany's constant support for genocide way more than their road signs. it's enough.
nah bro u forgot the sign that says no speed limit
It’s particularly useful to Europe where you have a lot of neighbouring countries with open borders that speak different languages, so a text based system like the US wouldn’t be that friendly to foreigners.
Where's the signs for waving at each others and the double lightning signs? 😊
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Whilr complete color blindness is extremely rare, and the choice of red and blue should keep the rings distinct gor common forms of colorblindness, using color as the sole distingishing feature between "no trucks" and "trucks only" seems like a… Poor choice.
Aren't the road signs the same everywhere?
And for those of us who are color-blind…
It's pretty much the same in every European country I believe
I don't understand the use of color. Wouldn't this be a problem for colorblind drivers?
Not just in germany… literally all of europe
Fun fact: it was USA that wanted a universal traffic signs in the world all many country came with there ideas, most people was in to the one we have now in most country but USA was not happy that people didn’t want there idea of what the universal road signs would be so thay back out of the meeting they started
Europeans: how do Americans not understand this? It's just like the road signs in my country
Americans: we live on the opposite side of the planet and have zero exposure to this other than this very moment
European: you people are just stupid then