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Introduction
I was at the Bridges Conference in 2024 and there was a presentation about forced perspective and how it can be used to greatly enhance safety. To wit, make it look like a very real, very hanging-in-the-air sign is there, telling you directions and so forth, but it's only visible from where you're standing.
It occurred to me that this could be useful in school safety situations, namely, the routes along which kids walk or bike to school. There could be warning signs to motorists that tell them that along the road they are on there will be kids walking or biking to and from school.
Using the Sun
It occurred to me that since kids are only going to school or returning home during certain very narrow and specific times of the day, that the signs could be tilted or slanted, or covered with a scale-like surface, such that they reflect the sun strongly in the direction of the oncoming traffic during those specific times and much less at other times.
The result is that the signs would be there all the time, but during the hours of the day when the kids would be about, they would be super-bright, much more than the normal surrounding environment.
What It Might Look Like
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I'm thinking that there would be a series of placards, like normal street signs, along the side of the road, rather like the Burma-Shave ads of yore, but they would look like nothing in particular, not even be really readable, except to traffic coming down the road. They could show stuff from both directions, as it a sign on each side of the post.
It could also be like a series of sculptures along the road that could show flat surfaces with meaningful forced perspective images in multiple directions.
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