Allow me an inconsequential rant: I'm driving to work on Rte. 495, a major north-south highway west of Boston, when I encounter this electronic road sign:
First message: "Construction ahead."
OK, thanks for the heads up.
Second message: "Be prepared to stop."
Now this irritates me on at least two levels.
First, a state-issued driver's license should convey an implied acknowledgment that the recipient is sharp enough to understand that construction work on a highway may at times call upon passersby to bring their vehicles to a halt. Goes without saying maybe?
Second and even more puzzling: Is there any time during the standard operation of a motor vehicle when one need not be prepared to stop?
Just asking.
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Wow
Wow, you seriously need a vacation. The fact that you have thought so deeply about a road sign and let it irritate you so much tells me you are one extremely unhappy individual. Maybe it's time to relax a little?
Wasn't the author just on
Wasn't the author just on vacation?
Anyway... you don't think its the construction crew that specifies those message, do you? Those are your taxpayer dollars hard at work, paying lawyers to display trivial messages to protect the state against litigation (or provide ammo for litigation) - depending on the incident.
Road Hazard
If the signs were notprogrammed to state "be prepared to stop" then there would always be those doofeeces (plural of doofus) who, upon encountering a need to stop and being unable to do so and thus becoming involved in a collision, will proceed to engage the services of a shyster lawyer and sue everyone in sight in order to find someone (or more likely that someone's insurance company) who will pay out the wazoo for their incompetance. That's why. You may thank your local chapter of the American Bar Association once again for requiring our government(s) to protect us from ourselves.
AnyHazard
Sort of like the 'CAUTION: CONTENTS HOT!' warning on my steaming cup of coffee?
Close, but ...
... it's actually more like "CONTENTS HOT: Hot stuff can burn you"
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