▲ 640 ▼ Step up your game, France (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 week ago* by inari@piefed.zip to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 167 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] BlindPenguin@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago (1 child) That's because France is part of the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] libewa@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago (1 child) The Vienna Convention allows you to use either STOP or your native version. Likewise, you can either use a red octagonal sign, or a red upside-down triangle inside a red circle. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildtafel_der_Stoppschilder (that list only seems to exist in German Wikipedia) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* What? I thought the point of the octagon was so you can also tell its a stop sign from the other side and always know who has priority. Yet some countries say, nah circle is good. Speed limit? Circle. Stop? Circle. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] libewa@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago (1 child) The Vienna Convention allows you to use either STOP or your native version. Likewise, you can either use a red octagonal sign, or a red upside-down triangle inside a red circle. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildtafel_der_Stoppschilder (that list only seems to exist in German Wikipedia) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* What? I thought the point of the octagon was so you can also tell its a stop sign from the other side and always know who has priority. Yet some countries say, nah circle is good. Speed limit? Circle. Stop? Circle. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* What? I thought the point of the octagon was so you can also tell its a stop sign from the other side and always know who has priority. Yet some countries say, nah circle is good. Speed limit? Circle. Stop? Circle. permalink fedilink source parent
