On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:04:57 +0000, mm0fmf <n...@invalid.com> declaimed the > following: > >>Though they do write road info upside down on the road surface, >>typically XING with PED underneath. I had to ask what XINGPED meant till >>my colleague driving said it was PEDXING, pedestrian crossing. Why write >>it the wrong way though? > > For those I've encountered with multiple lines of text, the lines are > placed in the order one sees them. > > Yes, in a helicopter they would be reversed, but from the view in a > car, one sees the "PED" first, with the "XING" becoming visible as the > "PED" begins to be blocked by the hood (or should I say "bonnet").
In the United States, ambulances often have their signage written backwards so that it appears normal in a rear view mirror. Do they do that in other countries? > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list