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[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 239 points 7 months ago

I'm pretty sure it's saying you can't turn left onto the road to the left of the intersection. Looks like some pretty bad road design.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 146 points 7 months ago

I didn't realize we were here to play geoguessr but you win!

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 87 points 7 months ago

I'm gonna say it's easy when the street names are in the photo.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Easier, definitely. And a unique street name. But it's quite hard to read the cross street name. All I can see is the "E DR" at the end. I probably wouldn't have bothered from just seeing the one street and no other text.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

I got lucky with Google Maps highlighting the apartment building in the background as a POI to match up with.

[-] odium@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago

It's also easier when there are no rules saying you can't enter that road name into Google maps.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago

Atlanta and Peachtree Rd/Ln/Dr/Ave/Way/Plaza/literally 65 more variations of this say hello.

[-] Sausage_Mahoney@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I think it makes giving directions easier. Everything in this town is 'just off Peachtree'

[-] batucada@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago
[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 72 points 7 months ago

I understand the intent from your graphic, but given the signage, I would not have known what they expected of me.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 32 points 7 months ago

The painting on the road should indicate a 45° left instead of 90° left.

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 months ago

Relative to forward travel it's 45°.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

True, although since you're specifically referring to the angle indicated by the painting on the road, referring to the angle of the painted arrow itself would be clearer.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

? I'm saying the painting on the road should be painted as 45° instead of its current 90°.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

I think they're saying the arrow would be drawn at a 135° angle compared to the "vertical" base.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If you're driving and someone says to do a 180° turn, do you continue driving straight or do you turn around? Angle is measured by direction of travel. Works for 90° too which is probably the confusion.

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

You're absolutely correct. I just thought it made for a funny photo. It's very on brand for this city to do dumb shit like this.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I've been confused and made dangerous choices in traffic for less stupid reasons. Not trying to deflect all blame but considering the lowest common denominator, road construction and signs really need to pay much more attention to the limits of the human brain.

Half of us have an IQ below 100 and we could be driving in darkness, with rain pouring down and facing traffic that shines its headlights into our eyes. The road needs to have an affordance that suggests to the driver how to drive correctly, instead of causing confusion when you already have a lot of traffic to keep track of.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Bad road design for sure, but the sign still could be better. For example they could make a custom sign, draw the intersection and mark explicitly that you can't turn to Oakwood.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Or just have the sign arrow be more than 90°

[-] hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

This is exactly the type of content i was hoping for when i clicked on the comments. Thank you for all you hard work sluthing for an explination of a random photo. Its truly gods work that your doing.

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