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Slight street sign modifications can completely fool humans too. Luckily: 1) most people aren't assholes so don't want to cause traffic accidents; and 2) we
by jameshart 9y ago
Slight street sign modifications can completely fool humans too. Luckily:
1) most people aren't assholes so don't want to cause traffic accidents; and
2) we have laws and police organizations to track down and punish assholes who do
- dogma1138 9y agoSlight sign modification will not fool humans at least not on this manner. This looks like a couple of bumper stickers will cause problems even when they do not obstruct the actual sign. This is a pretty big issue that will have to be dealt with.
- Neliquat 9y agoYup, In my town most signs have been creatively modified in some way. Gonna be a scary time. That said, I feel like most signs can safely be ignored if you already know the route, as avs would. Maybe construction signs should just have a specific blinking led pattern to override..
- jameshart 9y agoExcept that in a world where self-driving vehicles are relying on visual recognition of signage, it would become obvious PRETTY QUICKLY if the modifications to a STOP sign made it look like a 65mph speedlimit, and it would be able to be treated exactly as severely as if someone had covered the stop sign with a 65mph speedlimit sign. We're not talking about modifications causing a sign to accidentally be mistaken for something else, we are talking about deliberate modifications to road signs that cause vehicles to misinterpret them. If you modified a sign so that most users still perceived it as a stop sign but colorblind people misread it as a speed limit you'd be doing exactly the same kind of thing. I mean, it's not like there's some free-speech right to graffiti on road signage in the first place, let alone to modify it so that some road users will misunderstand the sign's meaning. If you interfere with a roadsign in order to deliberately confuse road users, you are a criminal.