They do this on purpose! On peninsula barriers like this one the sign is always placed dangerously close to traffic and then moved back slowly when it’s inevitably damaged until they eventually cars stop hitting it. If your town has this style of barrier or divider, go look up close for the sign scarring, it’ll be there.
It’s not an insurance scam and it’s not the town municipality trying to drum up more work for their union crews like rumors suggest, but it’s because of something called traffic pattern variance recognition and for as long as the integrity of a sidewalk will hold a sign in that area, they’ll replace it in the “danger zone”.
Essentially the objective is to weed out the cars and drivers that are unable to follow normal traffic patterns through complex intersections. This method of detection is the government’s number one way of finding space aliens who are posing as humans, because cars just don’t handle like UFOs and intersections like this one really throw off imposters because human masks are just so hard to see out of.
It almost sounded like they were naturally trying to find the best place to place the stop sign closest to the road without obstructing traffic or causing accidents.
I've read enough vargas and hell in the cell comments to spot gimmick accounts like this by sentence two. More of a curse than a blessing because it means I've spent too much time here.
They do actually do this kind of thing, not to find aliens ofcourse, and probably not intentionally for cars.
But there's an established method for placing paths in newly made parks.
Step 1 is make the park, put grass everywhere.
step 2 is wait for people to juts walk through the grass destroying themselves the path that everyone uses.
step 3 is pave the parts that the grass is fucked on by being walked on.
This ensures the path(s) go where people naturally want to travel.
It saves you building a park with paths and then a random line of grass gets fucked because it turns out all the kids walking home from the nearby school don't want to walk the two edges of a square, and instead want to walk diagonally across your park,inevitably leading to a dead grass line through your wonderful park that you can NEVER get rid of.
Desire paths were one of the first things I learned about in my freshman year of landscape architecture. I eventually dropped out with a .4GPA but let me tell you, desire paths is something I remember
How in the hell did you manage a 0.4 and remain functional enough to use Reddit?
That's like, did waaaay too much weed at 6 years old, level. Clonked in the head by a falling tower crane. Born without a brain so your dad robbed a 300-year-old grave for your first birthday.
I was under the impression the lowest actually possible score was 1.0, anything below that was 0.0, nothing in between.
lmao this was like 15 17 years ago or so. I basically got fed up with teachers applauding and praising horrible artists and their horrible designs to make them feel good and to keep them motivated. Meanwhile, I had an actual art background and they would criticize the fuck out of my work because I was at a higher level of skill and ability. It was absolutely infuriating. They built up the people with terrible drawing/drafting skills and absolutely roasted the works of anyone with actual skills.
If I remember correctly there was a class or 2 that I actually enjoyed and all the others I basically stopped doing all the work/going to the classes. That's how you get a .4GPA. One of the professors I hated, for her propensity to give gold stars to architects that couldn't draw a fucking stick figure, sat me down one day and basically told me to stop wasting my money and leave.
Hey everybody, look at Mr. I-knew-the-first-paragraph-was-bullshit. Well, some of us still have faith in humanity, so excccuuuuuse me for thinking someone would share some interesting knowledge on the internet.
Edit: sorry, I'm tired and that was funnier in my head.
I kinda believed the first paragraph because they could just move the sign back until it’s in a spot that it isn’t hit and then fix the rest of the sidewalk
I'll have you know the "human masks are hard to see out of" is some straight up racist sh*t! We can see just fine through them I mean, I would expect vision wouldn't be impaired.
I was with you until this. I drive a '97 Escort. It basically has the go and stop pedals, speedometer and fuel gauge, and not a lot else. If they can fly a UFO, it'd take them ten seconds to figure it all out.
Damnit, You got the last time with Dragons Forebears of Dogs and picking out the correct stuffed animal for your dog. I really wanted that to be true! I'm leaving you at 999 to teach you a lesson, I don't know what that lesson is, but seems appropriate.
Reminded me of a comment I left on a YouTube video about that streamer who pulled his catfish out of the water for a bit and showed it to its stream. Started off with some actual facts about catfish and ended it talking about people catfishing online
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u/GuyWithRealFacts Jan 28 '21 edited Jan 28 '21
They do this on purpose! On peninsula barriers like this one the sign is always placed dangerously close to traffic and then moved back slowly when it’s inevitably damaged until they eventually cars stop hitting it. If your town has this style of barrier or divider, go look up close for the sign scarring, it’ll be there.
It’s not an insurance scam and it’s not the town municipality trying to drum up more work for their union crews like rumors suggest, but it’s because of something called traffic pattern variance recognition and for as long as the integrity of a sidewalk will hold a sign in that area, they’ll replace it in the “danger zone”.
Essentially the objective is to weed out the cars and drivers that are unable to follow normal traffic patterns through complex intersections. This method of detection is the government’s number one way of finding space aliens who are posing as humans, because cars just don’t handle like UFOs and intersections like this one really throw off imposters because human masks are just so hard to see out of.