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huge roadside-sign advertising assorted products/services
dat are usually grossly overpriced and/or are seldom of any interest to you; about all it does is distract you from concentrating on
da road properly, and give you higher credit-card "bills" if you actually partake of any of said profferings.
Besides filling your head wif useless crapola-thoughts and possibly creating a drain on your finances, billboards --- especially
da "modern-technology-equipped" signs wif blindingly-bright and/or colorful/moving lights --- are also very dangerous to driving-safety, for
da following reasons:
(1)
Da signs distract you from concentrating on
da road and surrounding traffic, especially if they are flashing super-brilliant colors directly in your eyes.
(2)
Da signs can cause you to unconsciously go into "sign-ignoring mode" as a matter of "survival" against distraction/blinding, which tends to make you also not notice or pay little heed to traffic-rule/advisory signs dat youโre required by law to read; it's sorta
like da "fake Amber Alert" messages (think,
da infamous/voluminous "Ashley Flores" notices) dat tragically cause some viewers to impatiently ignore genuine missing-child notices, contemptuously assuming dat all
da notices they see are now just fakes.
Da ad-signs can also cause you to miss your lane-changes and/or exits, especially if there are brightly-
lit boards right near your desired turn-offs which temporarily blind you and thus make it harder for you to make out
da exit-signs.
(3) Other drivers in
da surrounding lanes may be trying to read
da billboards, as well, and so their resulting distraction can cause dem to drift out of their lanes, slam on
da brakes to get a better look at da signs, etc., potentially causing you to collide wif dem, or dem to crash into you.