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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The one about cows is no joke. Hitting a cow in a sedan at highway speeds is more or less the same as hitting a brick wall.

Edit: actually, given the choice, take the brick wall, because at least a simple masonry wall will crush and crumble and absorb some of the impact. The cow will just gain a sudden increase in its net velocity at your expense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I take it you don't have any particular idea where any of these are actually found in the wild..?

I dunno, but if that 5 roundabouts thing is real, I damn sure don't wanna go anywhere near there!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seeing this as a driver, it's scary. But seeing it as a pedestrian I'd just mark this whole area as completely inaccessible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Imagine trying that as a visitor from the US where we drive on the other side of the road.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

It's got a great safety feature in that nobody understands it enough to attempt driving fast enough to cause a crash

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The penguins under car is at a blue penguin colony in Oamaru, New Zealand. Visited there in March. Might not be that exact format.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Polar bear one would be on Svalbard, and I know I've seen the crossing skier one in Norway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Germany has a ton of the no speed limit signs. But in reality they are just no artificial speed restriction signs, meaning drive the limit of the road type you're on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Invisible Cows sign is on the road to access Mauna Loa observatory on Hawaii

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Speed Camera Ahead is everywhere where live. Why is it strange?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Probably that it's a 130 year old camera model

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The one with "No speed limits" doesn't mean that you can go 200 in a 90, it just means that previous speed signs no longer apply. So if you had a speed sign of 70 in a road that typically allows to go 90, you can do 90 again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

In Germany it means full speed ahead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reading through this I feel like about a quarter of the signs are regulars here in switzerland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The kangaroo one just makes sense, it's only exotic because you're the only place with kangaroos, I bet they don't think twice about the same signs for their local wildlife.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

There used to be one in this town that just said "open water" with no elaboration.

It means they built a damn and flooded where the road used to go and it now goes directly into a lake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The “Illegal Immigrant Crossing” signs are real down in San Diego, CA. Poor girl is always getting dragged like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For all that energy kids have, they sure do suck at long distances.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's the short legs. Give kids stilts and they're natural cross-country sprinters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What’s wrong with no water pollutants? It’s around drinking water reservoirs so they don’t get contaminated in a case of an accident…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

%80-%90 of these aren’t weird just region culturally specific.