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    2. Numerous-Confusion-9 on

      Interesting. Can confidently say ive never given that order any thought and would likely not have noticed if driving through a country that was different than mine

    6. Konoppke on

      Red makes sense people:

      EDIT: I’m assuming we’re reading sign from the top to bottom.

      Generally when traveling, youre orienting yourself using directions, not destination. – Directions are the bigger cities, that you find right on top of the sign. These don’t change too often during the course of a trip, so when reading the sign too to bottom, it’s easy to know if you’re still on track. 

      In the blue system, when reading the sign from the top, you learn names of small  towns as you pass them, without being able to extract much information from that. So it’s more difficult most if the time. 

      Also whatever separates us from the Russians, I’ll take it.

    7. CleverDad on

      I’m from a red country and it works fine for me, but I personally think the blue ordering makes more sense.

    8. ZETH_27 on

      With the presence of overhead signs on major roads, the closest city indicated is the easiest one to spot when it is lower on the sign. Furthermore, the red-sector layout goes along the road itself, leading up the further on the road you go.

      I’d perspnally prefer that as it’s less accident-prone than the blue alternative, tho the difference in practice is extremely minimal, so it doesn’t matter too much.

    9. S-Kiraly on

      Northern Ireland is wrong. [Should be red](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4831392,-6.2010096,3a,70.5y,112.3h,91.43t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1swgMglcijU5uch7HbECyC0A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-1.4323333513606116%26panoid%3DwgMglcijU5uch7HbECyC0A%26yaw%3D112.30019046601086!7i16384!8i8192?entry=tts&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxNi4wIPu8ASoASAFQAw%3D%3D&skid=44727e65-bc42-4dd6-b81d-630b90ef8944).

    10. S-Kiraly on

      Britain should be neither red nor blue if [this sign](https://www.google.com/maps/@52.878178,-1.6440141,3a,75y,267h,89.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXavq56xLylREeTkbKpEtDw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0.024368100189022357%26panoid%3DXavq56xLylREeTkbKpEtDw%26yaw%3D267.00206391894005!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) is anything to go by. Can anyone explain that monstrosity to me?

    11. HonestlyNotISIS on

      As someone who road trips across Europe a lot, red is fucking annoying.

      I need to go to X, and that involves taking the road that heads towards Capital City. So I join the road in the direction of Capital City.

      Now every single distance sign I see and naturally read from top to bottom (because that’s how I read *literally everything else*) tells me that I am, unsurprisingly, *still* going to Capital City.

      After a while X appears on the sign under Capital City. And as I get nearer to X, and so need to be increasingly aware that my junction is getting close, Y appears under Capital City. And then Z. So X moves *down* the list.

      The more urgent information has an increasing amount of *less* urgent information appearing in front of it as it becomes *most* urgent.

      So every time you look at the sign you have to spend an increasing amount of time looking past less urgent information to get to the more urgent information. Time you should be spending looking at where you’re driving.

      (And if I’m going to Capital City I don’t need to be told every few miles that, yes, the road I am on still goes to Capital City.)

      It’s horribly unintuitive, as it flys in the face of how we present information elsewhere. Imagine arriving at an airport and at the top of the departure board was the last flight of the day. And it just sat there until every single other flight had departed.

      Meanwhile blue:

      I need to go to X, and that involves taking the road that heads towards Capital City. So I join the road in the direction of Capital City.

      I glance at the distance signs as we pass. Is X at the top? Nope. Concentrate on driving safely.

      Is X at the top? Yup. Time to look out for my exit.

    12. azhder on

      Now I understand that Syrian refugee corridor better. They see a german city at the top, they follow that road.

    13. WorldlinessWitty2177 on

      If the sign is above the road, the closest one will be nearest to you. But mainly the end location is better for following directions.

    17. IoIoIoYoIoIoI on

      Live in a country classified as „red“ here and have to say our system is stupid compared to the other one.

      People notice the top before the bottom and left before right, so the NEXT exit should be on top, in order for you to notice it and be ready to get off the highway.

    18. nikolapc on

      We proudly go with DIN standards, didnt know MG faltered just to spite Serbia.

    19. marbinho on

      Blue makes more sense on paper, but I actually think red works better as a sign on the road

    20. sjedinjenoStanje on

      This does a great job of showing how exciting and diverse Europe is.

    21. L_Flavour on

      I always assumed the „red signs“ come from a sorta „mapping“ idea, i.e. if you – in your mind – push the sign over, then the top city is the farthest while the bottom city is the closest.

      I’m not even sure whether that’s practical at all, it’s just what I imagined and used to help me navigate.

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