For 30 years, the UK has used speed cameras to monitor motorists, and the sign indicating them shows the side view of a bellows camera. But doubt regarding what it actually depicted recently emerged due to one lie that spread like fire.
Deception isn’t new to the internet, but what’s noteworthy about Rory’s false claim about the UK’s speed camera sign isn’t the misunderstanding itself but how many people agreed with him and the traction the claim got among the press.Fortunately, among the people who instantly accepted the false claim without question, some resisted the nonsense.“It’s a bellows camera. Same reason we use a steam train [on railroad crossing signs], everyone knows exactly what it represents.
“Show me a sign” hits the mark with the suggestion that everyone knows what the speed camera sign represents. In 2008,.” In fact, of 500 drivers surveyed in 2007 about a dozen road signs in the UK, only one was known to every respondent — the speed camera sign. Signage should be instantly recognizable and easy to understand. Drivers must be able to see a sign, even at high speed, and know what they’re looking at. Of the speed camera sign,writes, “A 19th Century-style bellows camera is used, with great success, to warn of the imminent danger of racking up a speeding fine and rail enthusiasts’ hearts must race at the symbol of a steam train before level crossings.
Despite what was instantly apparent to survey respondents 15 years ago, scores of people were keen to abandon their prior understanding of the UK’s speed camera sign. Perhaps it’s a reflection of the times and the age of Rory’s audience on Twitter. Cameras with bellows are infrequently seen, having been almost entirely supplanted among all but the most avid analog photographers by digital SLR cameras, mirrorless cameras, and smartphones.
Misunderstandings among Twitter users are generally unproblematic. However, what’s disturbing is that press outlets took a simple Twitter post and ran with it., “A Twitter user has shared what the symbol on the speed camera sign stands for.” The article continues, referring to the reality of the sign as “the Victorian camera theory.” It’s not a theory — it’s a fact.
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