Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working
by smoochy on Monday October 17, 2022 @05:19PM
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I've been to all continents except maybe Australia. Only North America has the weird white light for pedestrians and a red palm (which also blinks, which is very counter-intuitive). I can assure, most countries of the world use red and green icons of man standing/walking for pedestrians.
Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working
by kevin_thibedeau on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:26PM
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It's a retrofit of the older WALK/DONT WALK signs.
Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working
by reaperducer on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:38PM
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I've been to all continents except maybe Australia
Maybe Australia? You don't remember if you've been to Australia?
Congratulations! I've never been so drunk that I didn't know which continent I was on.
Only if you define the rest of the world to mean the very small percentage of places in the world you have been.
From Wikipedia:
In some countries, instead of "don't walk", a depiction of a red man or hand indicating when not to cross, the drawing of the person crossing appears with an "X" drawn over it.
Some countries around the Baltic Sea in Scandinavia duplicate the red light. Instead of one red light, there are two which both illuminate at the same time.