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Exceptional Visibility, Exceptional Safety: Reflectors on the RoadWhen it comes to road safety, few concepts are more important than visibility. When we take our first driving lesson, for example, we…

Copenhagen holds the title of the most bike-friendly city in the world. In the top 20, only one US city made the list, Minneapolis. This may be surprising considering Minneapolis has bitterly col…

Symbols have long been used to communicate to drivers on roadways. Symbols offer a universally recognized message and are much quicker to view than words. For maximum safety on the roads in the US, dr…

Are self-driving cars autonomous enough to recognize street signs? While human drivers easily recognize most signs on roadways, can cars learn them, too? A self-driving car is basically a robot-vehicl…

If your business has a parking lot that is accessible to the public, you may wonder if you truly need signs to regulate traffic. After all, you reason, people never obey those signs, anyway.…

For anyone who has driven or ridden in an automobile, chances are you've seen a traffic control sign or product. They're everywhere, and the city and the highway department put them there for very goo…

Those bright, reflective traffic cones you see along construction zones on the freeway aren’t just to divert drivers away from work zones. These vibrant orange markers have a variety of uses—not on…

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), first published in 1935, standardizes how traffic control devices should be installed and maintained. These regulations apply to all public stree…

Believe it or not, traffic cones are considered one of America’s most important inventions. Traffic cones are used every day by road crews as a notification to drivers to not enter that lane o…