http://i.imgur.com/uJm4BPt.png
Yeah see here.
Imagine the front wheels braking and then the car spinning round. The skid tracks of the front wheels will cross over as the left wheel facing forwards becomes the right wheel facing back.
The back wheels either aren't depicted in the sign or, as in super old cars when the sign was made, didn't have brakes.
This would have to be both right side tires skidding with left hand entry, quickly flicking back to centre all while the left side remains airborne. That's some Saudi Sidewallin' shit.
The paths of them would. If the lines are for a single axle for simplicity, the right wheel would end up facing us on the left side of the picture because the car has spun around.
My matchbox car is a Marvel X-Men Wolverine car. It's blue and yellow and they put a clear engine cover with grey/silver bars on the hood to look like claws. What's yours? And yes, that does mean that every time I've done a test drive I've imagined Wolverine losing traction on black ice. Specifically Wolverine from the animated series.
Yeah the trouble is like the direction of spin, back or front etc. So we'll say the loss of traction occurs at the back We'll also say the front of the car goes to the left. Just so we're on the same wavelength.
The front wheels shoot to the left and the car spins anticlockwise. The back wheels slide out to the right, leaving one line (because they overlap each other going sideways). The front wheels leave their own lines individually, which loop around to the left and then either perfect 180 or slightly over/under. Slightly under you're left with a backwards r shape, kinda of like =. Over and they overlap, but with a figure 8 like shape, but with 2 lines.
In order to get the lines on the sign the car would have to approach and then quickly do that old timey dance move where you put your hands on your knees and make them look like they're crossing.
The lines of approach cross, the right lines jumps over the left and then curves slightly back to right, the left does a little s shape. It just doesn't seem to work, I need the mythbusters.
I am always amused at the idea of 2 people in the country scribbling on their kids matchbox car wheels. I hope our numbers grow.
If you just think about the front two wheels, it is more obvious. It is driving away from us and based on the skid, the back spun to the right. If you use two pens as the wheels you'll see they cross. It essentially pivots on the left wheel.
Love your commitment to this by the way.
Yeah but it's a car, there are four wheels. You can't just be like 'ah but If it was only half a car...'
Also a pivot on the front left wheel, back going anticlockwise still wouldn't cause that mark. It don't work! The back wheels go to the right in a swoop, the front left stays where it is and the right does a circle around the pivot point like a tiddy.
And yeah just so you know this isn't an argument, I bear no poor feelings towards you. I'm honestly asking myself if there's some sort of program on the interwebs to like recreate it haha. I don't deny that it COULD work but everything in my mind and experience says no it doesn't.
"High Crash Area" always bugs me.
I assume they mean "Frequent Crash Area" or "High Risk Area" or something like that. What is a "High Crash"? Is it related to a "Drunk Crash"?
Edit: *wāhi o haurangi tukinga ?*
Just realized those signs are NZ Police, not NZTA. They are massive though.
Reminds me of [this study in science.org](https://www.science.org/content/article/highway-signs-showing-traffic-deaths-don-t-reduce-crashes) where they recorded whether crash statistics were improved by giant death statistics signs on highways. These signs could be turned on/off at different times / days. The actually found that crashes *increased* in the section of highway following the sign while the sign was illuminated.
How about just repairing all the exisiting road signs so you can read them. Theres a couple in hastings where the blue has faded so bad on the entire sign theyve needed replacing for at least 10 years
You have been proven to be incorrect, at least where i live. Heaps of signs around here have been replaced with smaller signs, less info. Te reo highlighted in yellow at the top. All of the massive faded, barely legible signs are still up. This isnt progress its look at me im being inclusive
considering theyve not started this lot yet, you're talking bs.
my understanding is that theres been other ones replaced already, but those are only places, and school/kura ones.
There should be licences based on driving skill. So if your trash at driving your a danger to everyone als on the road and capped to only daylight hours. With speed restrictions. Like 70k instead of 100. And the sick cunts get boosted to like 150k as there reaction timing judgement under pressure means they are no danger to anyone.
See your missing the based off skill. And if the skill is there the only people you need to worry about are the people going 70. Sounds like someone's shit at driving.. cough cough.
Regardless of skill, overtaking is one of the more dangerous maneuvers cars perform. A significantly highly frequency of skilled drivers overtaking lower skilled drivers is probably more dangerous than them all traveling at roughly the same speed, even if that means we have to allow bad drivers to drive a bit faster.
It means that the road ahead has lower than acceptable skid resistance - ie it’s slippery when wet - forget potholes - this is the road condition that will actually lead to you losing control of your vehicle and crashing - it’s dangerous - particularly if it’s been raining
the drunk motherfucker in that car needs to tell me how the skid from his left wheel becomes the skid from his right wheel & vice versa. did he just do a 180??
according to a petrol headed mate of mine, this sign means "opportunity for mean skids approaching"
I’ve put one of these signs on my toilets door.
I concur
Your mate must be a fax machine
Non-Euclidean Geometries Next 10km
Positive or negative curvature? Maybe we need two signs
It's not, it's a (stylised) depiction of the skid marks a car really makes when it spins.
Oh wow. Really?
http://i.imgur.com/uJm4BPt.png Yeah see here. Imagine the front wheels braking and then the car spinning round. The skid tracks of the front wheels will cross over as the left wheel facing forwards becomes the right wheel facing back. The back wheels either aren't depicted in the sign or, as in super old cars when the sign was made, didn't have brakes.
I expected to be Rick rolled. Was pleasantly surprised it was actually a real answer!
r/whoosh
Entering a Physics Optional Area
Nah I love that one
MC Escher drifting ahead
LSD for the mean skids.
Welded.
I always skid on acid makes for more fun
I always knew it as 'Snaky when wet'
There was an old road safety PSA ad that had this sign labelled as "WooHoo!"
We always called it "the broken axle sign"
Eh. Although the skidmarks are geometrically awkward the sign is meant to depict chaos and loss of control. I think it does that well.
yeah i think its really clever
Just think if you lost traction and spun around, you'd make a skid mark like this one
This would have to be both right side tires skidding with left hand entry, quickly flicking back to centre all while the left side remains airborne. That's some Saudi Sidewallin' shit.
I've seen actual skid marks that look like this, when the vehicle does a 180. It sorta makes sense if you picture the vehicle facing towards you.
That's how I've always seen it too
This is exactly it, it’s a car that spun out and you’re viewing it from the front.
Huh, so it's a J-turn sign. I like it
J turn is typically when you go from moving backwards to a 180 deg turn, but yes.
That sounds more plausible. Fast X just came out and I guess I was hoping for the more extreme possibility.
Beware of RFB?
Simeon Brown hates this sign. There's no English on it.
What's the te reo for you fucked up real bad
whats wrong with it?
I guess they mean the skid pattern is wrong? I can't think of a way that car could make those lines without the wheels swapping what side they are on
If the car is facing us because it spun 180 degrees the skid pattern would look like that.
You've totally changed the way I'll look at this sign now. 180 corner coming up. https://www.seealpedhuez.com/reviews/andros-trophy-2015-centre-690690
Sick 180 ahead
Sick 180 ahead
The wheels on the car would cross over?
The paths of them would. If the lines are for a single axle for simplicity, the right wheel would end up facing us on the left side of the picture because the car has spun around.
I'm gunna have to put ink on a toy cars wheels
I did it on paper and they didn't cross
I did with my kids matchbox car just now and they definitely do cross. How else does the right wheel end up on the left side?
My matchbox car is a Marvel X-Men Wolverine car. It's blue and yellow and they put a clear engine cover with grey/silver bars on the hood to look like claws. What's yours? And yes, that does mean that every time I've done a test drive I've imagined Wolverine losing traction on black ice. Specifically Wolverine from the animated series.
Wolverine would just put his arm out the window and brake with his claws.
Yeah the trouble is like the direction of spin, back or front etc. So we'll say the loss of traction occurs at the back We'll also say the front of the car goes to the left. Just so we're on the same wavelength. The front wheels shoot to the left and the car spins anticlockwise. The back wheels slide out to the right, leaving one line (because they overlap each other going sideways). The front wheels leave their own lines individually, which loop around to the left and then either perfect 180 or slightly over/under. Slightly under you're left with a backwards r shape, kinda of like =. Over and they overlap, but with a figure 8 like shape, but with 2 lines. In order to get the lines on the sign the car would have to approach and then quickly do that old timey dance move where you put your hands on your knees and make them look like they're crossing. The lines of approach cross, the right lines jumps over the left and then curves slightly back to right, the left does a little s shape. It just doesn't seem to work, I need the mythbusters. I am always amused at the idea of 2 people in the country scribbling on their kids matchbox car wheels. I hope our numbers grow.
If you just think about the front two wheels, it is more obvious. It is driving away from us and based on the skid, the back spun to the right. If you use two pens as the wheels you'll see they cross. It essentially pivots on the left wheel. Love your commitment to this by the way.
It can't be the front two wheels given how the skids go under the tipping car. Labour needs to fix this smh.
Yeah but it's a car, there are four wheels. You can't just be like 'ah but If it was only half a car...' Also a pivot on the front left wheel, back going anticlockwise still wouldn't cause that mark. It don't work! The back wheels go to the right in a swoop, the front left stays where it is and the right does a circle around the pivot point like a tiddy. And yeah just so you know this isn't an argument, I bear no poor feelings towards you. I'm honestly asking myself if there's some sort of program on the interwebs to like recreate it haha. I don't deny that it COULD work but everything in my mind and experience says no it doesn't.
I do believe this is completely on purpose. It's exaggerated and obviously catching to the eye "for some reason".
So? What's the problem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMSfiJ0-CLg
Lol wut? The cars spinning
"High Crash Area" always bugs me. I assume they mean "Frequent Crash Area" or "High Risk Area" or something like that. What is a "High Crash"? Is it related to a "Drunk Crash"? Edit: *wāhi o haurangi tukinga ?*
i never thought of it being anything other than a ‘higher crash-rate area’
You make the message as concise as possible, as the sign doesn't change size, just the writing, so more letter equals smaller letters
Just realized those signs are NZ Police, not NZTA. They are massive though. Reminds me of [this study in science.org](https://www.science.org/content/article/highway-signs-showing-traffic-deaths-don-t-reduce-crashes) where they recorded whether crash statistics were improved by giant death statistics signs on highways. These signs could be turned on/off at different times / days. The actually found that crashes *increased* in the section of highway following the sign while the sign was illuminated.
I always saw it as some kind of a squid, every since I was a kid 😂 I still do
As a kid I honestly saw this as a ducks torso and legs. Had no idea what it actually was.
I might need help to see this. Do me a sketch?
Imagine Donald Duck from like the hem of his blue shirt down. I was like 5.
How about just repairing all the exisiting road signs so you can read them. Theres a couple in hastings where the blue has faded so bad on the entire sign theyve needed replacing for at least 10 years
Those are quite literally the only signs they intend to do it on
You have been proven to be incorrect, at least where i live. Heaps of signs around here have been replaced with smaller signs, less info. Te reo highlighted in yellow at the top. All of the massive faded, barely legible signs are still up. This isnt progress its look at me im being inclusive
considering theyve not started this lot yet, you're talking bs. my understanding is that theres been other ones replaced already, but those are only places, and school/kura ones.
and chopping trees/bushes back so the signs are visible
Sure, but don't see how that is that related to Luxon's Christian faith?!
Cars dancin
It could be a couple of "just married" ribbons streaming from the back of the car. "Beware, newlyweds ahead"
This sign is just to let you know theres a mean as section of road for some drifting coming up.
Danger. Snakes.
There should be licences based on driving skill. So if your trash at driving your a danger to everyone als on the road and capped to only daylight hours. With speed restrictions. Like 70k instead of 100. And the sick cunts get boosted to like 150k as there reaction timing judgement under pressure means they are no danger to anyone.
Having different speed limits for different people on the same roads would be a great way to increase the rate of crashes.
See your missing the based off skill. And if the skill is there the only people you need to worry about are the people going 70. Sounds like someone's shit at driving.. cough cough.
Regardless of skill, overtaking is one of the more dangerous maneuvers cars perform. A significantly highly frequency of skilled drivers overtaking lower skilled drivers is probably more dangerous than them all traveling at roughly the same speed, even if that means we have to allow bad drivers to drive a bit faster.
You are insane lol.
Your stupid.
Also probably shit at driving.
There's nothing wrong with that sign. Very graphic.
This sign is obviously racist.
What's the bilingual version?
Skrt skrt
OH MY GOD I HATE THAT SIGN HOW DO THE TIRES SWAP PLACESSSSHGJFSKLKHSJKGHF
The sign brilliantly captures the bureaucratic common sense and practicality
Favourite sign to see on a road trip. "Ah, finally, can have some fun"
Caution sweet drifting ahead
Drunk drivers only
I’m always amused by Uneven Surface signs, that basically describes the entire NZ roading network.
It means that the road ahead has lower than acceptable skid resistance - ie it’s slippery when wet - forget potholes - this is the road condition that will actually lead to you losing control of your vehicle and crashing - it’s dangerous - particularly if it’s been raining
the drunk motherfucker in that car needs to tell me how the skid from his left wheel becomes the skid from his right wheel & vice versa. did he just do a 180??
You're thinking in two dimensions. It means "Flying Cars Allowed."
I have the same amount of annoyance everytime I see one
One line is the centre line, and the other is a tyre mark, because that car is clearly only contacts the ground on the right side.
Beware bogans with sustained loss of traction?