> I thought it was weird to have some random Chinese or Vietnamese phrase written in Latin on a road in the US of all places... but it's just short for "crossin

> I thought it was weird to have some random Chinese or Vietnamese phrase written in Latin on a road in the US of all places... but it's just short for "crossing pedestrians", right? In Max Headroom, the main television network, Network 23, was owned by the ZikZak Corporation, controlled by an Asian CEO named Ped Xing. Giving him a street sign name follows a pattern established by Max himself, who (in universe) was a sort of digital reconstruction of the connectome of maverick journalist Edison Carter. (In real life he wasn't even CG, just actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make-up!) The last thing Carter saw before his seemingly fatal motorcycle crash was a sign that read "MAX HEADROOM 2.3M"; the "headroom" term being common in Britain where American signs might use "clearance". > Although on the other hand, now that I think of it, what's wrong with the zebra crossing? "PED XING" is painted on the road (or written on a sign) to alert drivers of an upcoming zebra crossing. The painted-on-road signs are written in reverse word order so that each word is readable in order as you approach by car. Another one seen on U.S. freeways is "SLOW VEH LANE", written as "LANE VEH SLOW".