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I may be biased because I am used to the hand but I find the walk and hand shapes are very distinctive compared to the walk and stand. However green on walk wo
by kevincox 4y ago
I may be biased because I am used to the hand but I find the walk and hand shapes are very distinctive compared to the walk and stand.
However green on walk would be nice.
- Arainach 4y agoClearly everyone should adopt the (East) Berlin standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelm%C3%A4nnchen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelm%C3%A4nnchen Very visually distinct, walking and standing, and green/red.
- lostcolony 4y agoI find them far less distinct than a walking person and a hand...and if I was colorblind that would be a large problem for me (and colorblindness was the reason for distinguishing the shape in the first place, so makes sense to have very different shapes rather than both "stick figure with hat").
- jrumbut 4y agoAny kind of figure triggers the walk reaction from me (or it did until someone finally clued me in on a trip to Europe). My working theory had been green figure means cross, red figure means cross with caution, like a flashing red hand in the US.
- mdavidn 4y agoI always assumed the pedestrian light was white to avoid confusion with the green traffic light for parallel drivers.