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[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Those photos are all taken on rainy foggy days and that is one shiny, uniformly reflective parking lot surface. I wonder if the yellow pole on those horizontal lines forms enough of an optical illusion that leads somewhat distracted drivers to wildly misjudge the distance their vehicle is from the pole.

Especially with another similarly sited pole someone else posted, in similar weather conditions. and it looks like the pole is REALLY close in width to the lines on the ground. Could be a cool phenomenon to look into.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yup. If it keeps happening, maybe there's a design flaw. Remember, nobody's perfect all of the time so we need to design things to accommodate the mistakes people inevitably make.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Indeed.

It is good to design to account for stupidity, or in these cases design around known limitations (eyesight in poor conditions, visibility from a driver’s seat).

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is good to design to account for stupidity

Is the rock or sign putting people in danger? I'd argue they account for stupidity by stopping the people who aren't paying attention and shouldn't be driving right now.

The dangerous driver is stopped on an inanimate object instead of causing an accident and no one is hurt.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Correct answer.

Incidentally, but not at all coincidentally, this is precisely why Target stores always have those red concrete spheres in front of the doors. Which are typically nearly exactly the same height and thus have the same potential amount of visibility/invisibility below a driver's sightline as this rock. It's to prevent morons from crashing their vehicles through the doors.

The rock(s) pictured are not even in the parking lot like this Wal Mart pole. If you leave the road, it is reasonable to expect that you will encounter obstacles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not so much morons as targeted attacks. Same reason malls (remember malls?) have those great big planters placed randomly on the floors, to stop vehicles that made it past the bollards. Defensive architecture, its a fascinating and extremely depressing subdiscipline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Lol the guy that tripped over it

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it keeps happening, maybe there's a design flaw.

The 11'8" bridge taught me that it's always human stupidity. They have regular signs, flashing signs, sensors that automatically turn the light red if you're too tall, and other stuff. And yet we still have regular videos of trucks opening themselves like tin cans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ooh, the bridge got a moving truck last week, lol.

EDIT: and there was a perfect can opener last month. It's hilarious how, in spite of everything, that bridge is still fucking up trucks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

They actually raised that bridge -- or rather, lowered the underpass at what was surely great expense -- and even at its new taller height of 12'4" it's still not enough to help stupid people.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if the yellow pole on those horizontal lines forms enough of an optical....

No, it's Walmart.

I have lived close to several Walmarts, and each and every single one has smashed signs in the parking lot because the people who frequent Walmart are exactly the kinds of people who drive straight into solid objects.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

They need to have some serious speed to crawl up that far. Its 1000% stupid people who cant drive/dont care.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

It's a yellow pole placed among yellow lines painted on the ground. It's a terrible layout and design. There needs to be more contrast between the pole and the lines on the ground.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It said stop

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, go?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Consent is important

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

No, you stop!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes I see the stop sign Elmo, but how am I supposed to find an octagon if I'm stopped at the stop sign huh? How Elmo how!?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Farmington Maine Walmart

Farmington Maine Walmart pole is also a menace!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

*Auburn Maine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hey I came to mention this!

Neat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

This isn't the Thriller - U Can't Touch This mashup I was expecting

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What else are you going to do in Topeka?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well, obviously you can get drunk..... Though I think that exhausts the list.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Understandable, I think being drunk is the only way to deal with Walmart.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

This pole takes drunk drivers off the road. A local hero.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Drink, fight, or fuck. This includes the entire midwest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

And then the family reunion is over.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

So this wouldn't be a problem for me around a normal pole, but now that I have seen this famous one... do NOT let me drive here. I fear my intrusive thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

It has roots in hell

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is it just me or are the first and third pictures of the same incident?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

They look like the same incident to me too, just taken from different angles and different times.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's hot in Topeka

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Pick my toe, it's hot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And showers in Spokane

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Shhhpppookaaanneee

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The sign takes its job very seriously.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I was gonna say. Unlike most other stop signs, this really gets the job done when it counts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

To get that far onto the pole, they are going too fast for a parking lot to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I thought this was tornado results pics. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

There's one just like that in fort worth lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We've got our "horror poller" Horror poller news

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I ride by this thing on my way too and from work, it was hilarious seeing the fucking thing destroyed AGAIN.

And the ammount of people who ignore all the signs and drove up to it only to awkwardly turn around was way too high lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's probably time to move or redesign your pole if people have run into it that many times. It's a pole in the middle of a parking lot. If people are hitting it then it's not visible enough. Repaint it blaze orange.