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Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of roads to provide information to road users. With increasing speed of transport, the tendency is for countries to adopt pictorial signs or otherwise simplify and standardize signs, to facilitate international travel where language differences can create barriers and in general to reduce the risks in driving. Such pictorial signs use symbols in place of words and are usually a result of international standards. Such signs were first developed in Europe, and have been adopted by most countries to varying degrees. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. I live in the Bay Area and drive to work on 101. On the freeway, I pass "signs" that give you automated estimates of driving times to various destinations (e.g. 10 minutes to 237, 25 minutes to 280, etc). These signs are updated dynamically, presumably to reflect current traffic conditions, and I have found them to generally be pretty accurate. But my question is this: does anyone know how they actually work? Is there a traffic helicopter taking pictures and some human expert who then guessimates based on these pictures and updates the sign? Is it automatically counting the number of cars that pass certain checkpoints in a given time period and estimating based on that? What is actually going on? Does anyone know for sure how these signs… [cont.] Asked by Gordon S - Wed Dec 6 21:58:00 2006 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. I also live in the Bay Area. I remember when, how they estimate driving times, by data gathered by the Fastrak transponder (maybe now the road speed sensors). That is how I remember at that time. Copy and Paste from the How does the Driving Times feature work? Answered by glen - Thu Dec 14 17:20:32 2006 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Road signs" |
