These are painted on the sidewalk, on the corners of several intersections in West Los Angeles. How dumb/unevolved do you have to be to not understand that a red hand means stop?
That's one thing I thought was interesting when I moved to the States. A lot of sign were written in English without any icons. "One Way", "Right Lane Must Turn Right", "No Turn On Red", and the "Walk/Don't Walk" signs. In Europe, since the countries are small and there's a bunch of different languages, it's easy to just drive all over the place, so the signs is universal icons and symbols with very little verbage.
Now that mention it, it's been a while since I've seen an actual "Walk/Don't Walk" sign.
I'm starting to wonder how many people realize that when it goes from 'walk' to a blinking 'don't walk', that means that those already crossing the street should continue, but anyone still on the curb should not.
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That's one thing I thought was interesting when I moved to the States.
A lot of sign were written in English without any icons.
"One Way", "Right Lane Must Turn Right", "No Turn On Red", and the "Walk/Don't Walk" signs.
In Europe, since the countries are small and there's a bunch of different languages, it's easy
to just drive all over the place, so the signs is universal icons and symbols with very little verbage.
Now that mention it, it's been a while since I've seen an actual "Walk/Don't Walk" sign.
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