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Just last week, I took a friend of mine Get in-depth information, including
to the DMV so she could get a new reviews, pricing, features and photos on
license. While I waited 6 hours for her to KBB.com.
finish up, I perused the official DMV

literature to pass the time. As I was A circle (considered to have infinite
looking through the section on road sides) denoted the riskiest stretches of
signs, I asked myself, “What's up with road, such as railroad crossings. It was
the different shapes?” A thought that has decided that the 8-sided octagon would
passed through everyone's brains at one represent a sign for intersections, the
time or another. More specifically, I next level of potential danger. Diamond-
wondered, why do stop signs have 8 shaped signs were next in line, followed
sides? by rectangles which are used only for
information. In case you haven't noticed,
It turns out there's an actual reason, and we still use all these sign shapes today.
it goes back almost 100 years, to the
very invention of road signs. Early 20th
century roads were a mess. It was pretty
much every man and woman for
themselves. There were no lanes and no
signs at all. You didn't even need a
license to operate a car.

The first stop sign debuted in Detroit in
1915 but looked nothing like the ones we
are bombarded with on roads today. In
1923, folks who worked for Mississippi's
highway department suggested a new

sign. One that would give drivers a
heads-up that a potential hazard might
be just up the road. The idea they came
up with was that the more sides a sign Next time you're driving, think back to a
had, the more dangerous was the road time when the roads were essentially
ahead. lawless, and thank those folks in

Mississippi who had the foresight to try
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