Department of Transportation

Kairos@lemmy.today to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 697 points –
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Signs like this recently got banned in the US iirc.

"Top distracting" for drivers

But all those billboards are fine

I'd say a big part of it is that drivers already filter out billboards, but those info signs often have important information on them that drivers are expected to read

But if that were the case, there would be no point in putting them up

Other people see the signs than the drivers, a lot of them I think are for kids to nag their parents

Not here in Canada! All of our 400-series highways have these signs all over the place.

SOUTHERN XPOSURE

60 MILES ON THE RIGHT

All those poor sensory deprived truckers sweating bullets because 150ft billboards are edging them at five mile increments down the highway.

I was just about to say a comment on the billboards, like wtf how is this legal. So glad that my state has them banned lol

Rent a billboard just to put the most distracting image possible on it and then watch the traffic reports for that area and see if there is an increase in accidents. 😈

Goatse.

Every time.

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Edit: I'm genuinely curious why people are downvoting this, if anyone wants to share?