Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo
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@loopback0 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Just put the solar panels in the road?
Except in this exact instance the walkway is apparently heavily shaded (there's some kind of bridge nearby?) so the Solar Panelz would need to be a bit further out.
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@loopback0 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
No, no no no, Airplanes would only exacerbate the issue!
Can you imagine a Jet Engine powering (somehow) the walkway lights?Though I suppose there would no longer be a problem with people paying attention...
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@loopback0 That would be SOOOO COOL! We'd have SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS!
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@sloosecannon
We should totally get crowdfunding for this idea
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
The lights are the height they are, and the size they are, because trigonometry says so-- not some middle-manager's "wouldn't it look nice if they were eye level so the lead driver could see them better" guess.
You know not whereof you speak. I live in France, and they do indeed have small lights at eye level so the lead driver can see them better.
This is because the main light is on the same side of the junction as the lead driver it is meant for, and the eye-level one is so that he can see the current state of the lights without having to look almost straight up.
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@Grunnen said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@PleegWat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Not on roads. Railways do use different number of bulbs, triangle patterns, and colour switchers.
Well, firstly railroad engineers are thoroughly educated (and tested for color-blindness). Usually they are not even allowed to drive on a random piece of track, before they have learned (under supervision) the locations and intricacies of the signals along that particular section of the railroad.
In France, at least, those intricacies include the fact that, on the LGVs, (Lignes Ă Grande Vitesse - high-speed lines - where only TGVs are allowed to operate) the important signals aren't beside the track. They are in the cab where the driver can see them easily. (Remember, on high speed lines, some TGVs can break 200 mph. The record for electric traction on wheeled trains (as opposed to eg maglevs or rocket sleds) is around Mach 0.5, set by a specially modified TGV.)
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
main light is on the same side of the junction as the lead driver it is meant for
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@sloosecannon said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
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The small lights at the bottom.
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@Luhmann I get that part, what I'm about is the fact that the light is on the wrong side of the intersection.....
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@sloosecannon As long as drivers are able to see when to go and when to stop, it's best to assume that it counts as working. The conventions might differ a little bit from what you're used to, but they still count as functioning.
It's when the lights are covered by leaves from trees, that's when things get really annoying.
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@sloosecannon said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Luhmann I get that part, what I'm about is the fact that the light is on the wrong side of the intersection.....
Why do you say it's the "wrong" side of the intersection? What would the "right" side be?
The light's where the drivers are supposed to stop.
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@Zecc on the other side, so the drivers can actually see the light.
I'm also nationalisticly trolling so.... Yeah.