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Episode: No joke: Feds are banning humorous electronic messages on highways
Description: Itβs no joke. A federal agency is discouraging humorous and quirky messages that could distract or confuse drivers on highways and freeways across the country.
The Federal Highway Administration recently released an updated 1,100-page manual that spells out how signs and other traffic control devices are regulated. In it, the agency strongly recommends against overhead electronic signs with obscure meanings, references to pop culture, or those intended to be funny.
Rather, signs should be βsimple, direct, brief, legible, and clear,β when relaying important information like warning drivers of crashes overhead, adverse weather conditions, and traffic delays, the agency said. Seatbe...