Everyone remembers the first time they saw it; maybe it was when you were young, just tall enough to look outside the window of your parents’ minivan. Maybe you were more oblivious and saw it when you took your first road trip after you got your license. For many of us, it was probably somewhere in between. The image is scarred deep into our minds, like the lingering shape of a camera’s bright flash. At first, you couldn’t quite believe it, but the miles went by and you saw it everywhere. How could this happen? you ask yourself. Why has no one fixed it? Has it always been like this? Must it always be this way?
Later in life, we become numb to it. Some of us repress it and convince ourselves it isn’t really like that. After all, it couldn’t really be like that if the world had any order. Others believe that it is normal and even necessary, despite the unsettling absurdity of it all, and thought of something so common being so wrong is so disturbing that we explain it away with excuses. Few are truly shaken by in any meaningful way — it is much easier to ignore it altogether and go on with our lives.
At this point, it almost seems unnecessary to type out the words to describe the thing that we are all collectively picturing, but avoiding it gives it a power it does not deserve. I’m here to renew awareness of how highway signs have right angle corners but have painted-on rounded corners.
It doesn’t have to be like this. We know for a fact that both design software and metal cutting technology have progressed to a point where this problem should have been solved a decade ago. Please consider signing the petition to enact real and lasting change: http://chng.it/RyxPmrxswW
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