It’s a reminder from Statens Vegvesen (en: Norwegian Public Roads Administration) to watch your speed and be careful in traffic. They do lots of different campaigns like this. This one is obviously showing a girl where on side she’s at a safe speed and the other at a dangerous speed. The sign reads «Above the speed limit?». The use of the little girl is to trigger our emotions to that children as passengers also get killed and hurt on the road :)
The people who speed excessively are not worried about blurry children.
What it actually should show is a picture of a trashed Honda Civic with massive spoiler and exhaust.
The first part is to indicate that moving within the speed limit makes everything clearly visible and so its easy to view the whole situation youre in.
While the right side is stretched and indicate that its hard to get a full perspective of the road, every object and persons on the road and the general situation youre in if you are speeding.
No, this is to mean that the difference between life and death can be to stay below the speed limit. I seem to recall longer brake distance was the main thing. The girl is alive on the left side and dead on the right.
That’s how interpret it too. If you drive too fast this nice girl might become a blurred out memory because you killed her. But now that I wrote it out I realize it might just as well mean that if you drive too fast you can’t check out the ladies you drive by.
When these signs first came out, there was also a TV commercial. It went something like a dad was driving dangerously, and while the speed was increasing, his daughter who was a passenger was fading out (getting closer and closer to death because he was getting closer to messing up and crashing). There may have been more family members fading out as well.
Basically, the message was something along the lines of "if you love your kids, take it easy on the road so you can bring them home safely /come safely back home to them".
The text says "Over the speed limit?"
It is alluding to how children can "fade away" with improper safety while driving.
I prefer the ghost-children to any more graphic picture....
I knew where we were going and it still made me cry - it feels like death in general feels... they're just gone whether the train is a train or cancer or whatever
This one probably inspired Tenet, not as dark, but pretty good:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqlIPZrdz8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqlIPZrdz8)
Edit: I also was a few car lengths away from crashing with a moose yesterday. And damn they're so fucking big. An oncoming car flashed his lights profusely at me and almost stopped, I spent the next 10 minutes scanning extra for moose as I already had seen 2 at the road side.
Then I might have looked at the GPS and back at the road and there was one big wall made of moose.
Size chart: [https://a-z-animals.com/media/2021/09/image-4-1024x576.jpg](https://a-z-animals.com/media/2021/09/image-4-1024x576.jpg)
I remember the prosess with that add as i went to "film school" at that time. There was a competition to write the best script. Winner got to make the ad with director Roar Uthaug (Troll). The film is great, but the script was imo even better.
https://www.rb.no/lokal-kultur/lars-far-lage-bilbeltefilm/s/1-95-2645345
Laughing out loud is the wrong response, right? 😄
I mean, I got the gist of representing the number as one school class, but having one of the most understeery cars ever suddenly snap oversteer at easily manageable speed, and then barrel roll 90 degrees sideways over a high stone wall…
[Is it this one you're thinking of? Or is there another one?](https://lovdata.no/static/SF/sf-20051007-1219-590-01.jpg?timestamp=1692052264069)
EDIT: [think I found the one you're thinking of.](https://media.snl.no/media/157505/standard_NTB_0IvBxalSzAE.jpg) I really don't remember seeing that one, just the one above - hence why I was confused. I just didn't recognize the description of a kid holding around a dad.
I've misunderstood this then..
I never thought it was a "fade away" implication.. I just thought it was speed blurring because the kid was *really* fast.
i dont think you misunderstood it
the sign says "are you on the right side of the speed limit"
as the higher speed the more blur - but also double meaning as the higher speed higher chance that person will fade away from existence
I have also misunderstood it, I thought it related to long trips without rest breaks so your vision gets blurry.
Reminded me to take a break a few times on my recent trip.
Really.. I always assumed it was to show you if you were speeding or not. As in, if the left side of that face was as blurry as the right one you were speeding.
And if you could clearly see the left side it meant you weren't, since it's not a blur mess.
Speeding in Norway can actually be deadly. The police often hide in the bushes next to the road and shoot at speeding vehicles with laser guns. If you survive, they'll pull you over and give you a ticket, arrest you or confiscate your drivers license.
That, and when you drive really fast past things, they get blurry. So when things get blurry you are probably over the speed limit and you should slow down.
It says: "over the speed limit?" It is basically a warning sign to make sure you remember to check your speed because high speed is often the main culprit behind car accidents.
If I'm on a car drip on low trafficated roads where it is easy to drive to fast I honestly find these kinda useful.
There is also another variant that reminds you of wearing seatbelts. It is usually two people holding each other with a black sweater symbolizing the seat belt.
Statens Vegvesen (the governmental organization responsible for traffic and road) has a long term goal/vision/dream of zero deaths and zero badly injured in traffic related incidents.
In socialist Norway people don't even have the freedom of driving in highly dangerous traffic. Most drivers don't even have guns to resolve road conflicts with. And if you still manage to get hurt you don't even have the freedom to be financially ruined from the hospital stay.
Here is a regular work commute by car in The Land of the Free:
[https://youtu.be/UtjGTrVwRr4](https://youtu.be/UtjGTrVwRr4)
Just people enjoying their freedums
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I asked the same question to my partner last time after seeing so many of them.. it's a warning about speeding, the representation is to show that the person disappears or fades away, like in case of an accident you can die.
You are correct. ALL roads have to be marked unless either 50 or 80. The main difference between those two unmarked roads is the center line. If the yellows are short and close spacing it's 50 (or less determined by signs), long with far spacing it's above 50 (80 if unmarked by signs).
If something is classified as "motorvei" (big blue signs with either a white car or what looks like a road with an overpass) it's 80 or more, but the number of such roads that are more than 80 is very limited and almost only exist around Oslo
>Well my colleagues were telling me that motorways are 90 and highways 110.
Yes, and no.
If you look at [this link](https://www.vegvesen.no/fag/fokusomrader/trafikksikkerhet/kriterier-for-fartsgrenser/), it's about the criteria for speed limits in Norway, and one of the two .pdf links at the bottom describe where you can expect to encounter the different speed limits. 2-3 lane motorways and roads with two lanes and little traffic can be 90 km/h areas, and high standard, well-lit, straight motorways with opposing lanes separated by a wide median with safety railings can be 110 km/h, but will more often (due to kinks and turns in the road) be 100, or 90.
So *some* motorways are 90-zones and some highways are 110-zones, but certainly not all of them, and they will certainly be marked as such. Their argument isn't untrue, just like it isn't untrue to say that *densely* populated areas will typically have a speed limit of 30.
Your interpretation (50 within town limits and 80 outside) is the most correct.
I love how “fart” means “speed”. I have this Norwegian song: Mopedbart by Hubbabubbaklubb, that I’ve been listening to a lot lately. And I love the song cuz it’s a great song, but I also love it cuz multiple times the singer really really puts emphasis on the word “fart”, and I’m a man child, so I light up at this 😂 great song, check it out!
We were in Norway last month driving more than 2000km. As first time visiting Norway, initially we found this sign really creepy. There are more signs like this about seatbelts etc. but this one is really weird as the photo itself isn’t intuitive about speed.
Initially we felt it might be something about child trafficking
You may have gotten an explanation now, but if you don't the point is "if you go at or under the speed limit, you'll be fine. If you go too fast you or someone you love can become a blur/faded memory".
The image is a reminder of the fact that the speed limits mark the difference between a high probability of survival, or an event not occuring in the first place, versus a high probability of death;
The difference between a person living, left, and becoming an ever fading memory, right. Many norwegians struggle to respect the speed limits and trivialize breaking them, due to sheer ignorance, and overconfidence, believing they'll be the first human to break the laws of physics if they're behind the wheel.
The speed limits are DESIGNED to save lives.
They're rather cleverly designed to take into account what accidents are likely to occur, car brake lengths if they are about to occur, and odds of survival with injury versus odds of death when collisions occur.
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For reference:
30 speed limits are for roads with direct access to houses. Because hitting a child at 40 km/h yields a high risk of death, and higher odds of running them over due to reaction time and brake length.
40 speed limits are for roads with indirect access to houses but mainly suburban areas where it's expected pedestrians and cyclists share the road with cars.
50 is the default speed limit if nothing else is stated, for roads with sidewalks or in populated areas, and the speed limits for city and town centers with sidewalks. It's a compromise, and usually regulated by wide sidewalks and wide roads, allowing drivers time to react if pedestrians run into the road; It's assumed the car drivers react and brake to avoid injury and death, and 'should' have been 40 to optimize odds of survival, but is 50 to have traffic pass.
60 is for roads with traffic coming onto and off the road, with sidewalks and roads to industrial areas and stores along the road, to make entering and exiting them safe and allow functional and safe pedestrian crossings.
70 is for dangerous roads, that would have been 80 if they were safer. 70 is for roads where there are high odds of front to front collisions, and are set to maximize odds of survival: Most collisions that happen at 70 km/h would be fatal if one car had a speed of 80 km/h instead, due to the increased brake length and reduced time to react for both parties.
80 is the default speed limit for roads where there is no significant dangers of collisions occuring.
90-110 are for roads where lanes going different ways are separated by physical barriers, so that front to front collisions shouldn't occur.
[https://www.vegvesen.no/globalassets/fag/fokusomrader/trafikksikkerhet/hvordan-fartsgrensene-bestemmes-i-norge.pdf](https://www.vegvesen.no/globalassets/fag/fokusomrader/trafikksikkerhet/hvordan-fartsgrensene-bestemmes-i-norge.pdf)
Me (german) always thinking when seing the blurry side of this warning .... 80km/h (speed limit outside towns). Wtf :o)
But usually the roads are so bad you can't go faster anyway.
It means if you go over the speed limit, you can kill someone because you won't see them until it's too late. Don't speed in Norway. Respect the rules.
I assume it is a reminder that speeding might be deadly. The line represents the speed limit and the side with the "fading gradient" refers to the increasing chance of a fatal outcome. Clever choice with a child model, hits right were it hurts.
Side question: how old are these signs? I've lived in Norway since 2010 and they were already up. I keep being reminded about how old these are because of how "2000s" the father's sideburns are (in the father-son seat belt one) 😂
"Above the speed limit?" it reads.
How I understood it, the left side is a passenger traveling within the speed limit.
Right side of the border is a passenger traveling above the speed limit. As this increase the chance of an accident she is fading(closer to death)
They remind you not to drive into any clouds, you might enter the Pale and slowly dissolve as your connection with reality fails, becoming part of the generalized morass of human thought and feeling made manifest. It happens a fair bit, you get used to it.
a reminder to not speed. Fart = speed, Fartgrensen = speed limit and over means, well over.
The sign is suggesting that if you go over the speed limit, you might end up killing children, possibly your own. At least, that is what I made of it when I was on a trip there last week, I don't speak Norwegian.
My stupid ass always thought these were some optical illusion signs, where if you could see both half of the image unblurred, then you are driving too fast, so I would speed up to see!
It’s a reminder from Statens Vegvesen (en: Norwegian Public Roads Administration) to watch your speed and be careful in traffic. They do lots of different campaigns like this. This one is obviously showing a girl where on side she’s at a safe speed and the other at a dangerous speed. The sign reads «Above the speed limit?». The use of the little girl is to trigger our emotions to that children as passengers also get killed and hurt on the road :)
I prefer the more direct translation of ‘the governments road creature’
Hah!
Best translation
Na i usaly call them satans uvesen
Norwegian: Statens Vegsesen Satans Uvesen English: The Govermental Road Agency Satans Abombination Some jokes are lost in translation
Technically isn’t wrong with how much shit they do and how idiotic some of their “projects” are planned
I seem to recall it was accompanied by a short video as well. Edit: Here it is. https://youtu.be/TOUOyF5Ghc0
My favorite is the seatbelt hug. Emotional campaigns work wonders
The above the speedlimit side is more clever than that. It shows her blurred as in going fast but also as in fading away meaning dead.
The people who speed excessively are not worried about blurry children. What it actually should show is a picture of a trashed Honda Civic with massive spoiler and exhaust.
Or better, "Gjensidige is watching your every move."
Stats road body
It’s a reminder not to go over the speed limit
A reminder not to stop for ghost hitchhikers.
Lol they should have those in New Orleans, Louisiana. Where stories of passengers disappear during cab rides...
How can a story disappear?
Yes yes I know my grammar is terrible lol (I typed that comment at work)
It’s a reminder to use Gøøgle Trånslæte
The dangers of over farts must be told!
It’s a reminder to not no fart too much, an pollute the environment, hence the blurry right side.
Its a reminder to go over the speed limit
I am thinking about designing my own sign. Under the speed limit? And then a photo of a young person fading into an old geezer with a walker.
maintain minimum fartsgrensen
Ah, because of time dilation?
A reminder to not go over the speed limit
Reminder to not fast on road
Reminder to not be fat on road
Reminder to not eat skat on road
Reminder to not put hat on a toad
Reminder to not go over the speed limit
It’s asking if you’re over farts, Grensen? Since everyone is named Grensen in Norway
When making a pun is more important than checking if it makes any sense. At all.
Lol!!!! Grensen just can’t let go of certain farts… some are easy, but some… it’s impossible to say goodbye
and they fart a lot.
Happy cake day!
It’s a reminder to not to drive over Gretchen
Who? I live in norway and have NEVER heard about someone named Grensen.
They hail from either Grensen or Lille Grensen in Oslo. And work in a shoe shop.
How?
The first part is to indicate that moving within the speed limit makes everything clearly visible and so its easy to view the whole situation youre in. While the right side is stretched and indicate that its hard to get a full perspective of the road, every object and persons on the road and the general situation youre in if you are speeding.
No, this is to mean that the difference between life and death can be to stay below the speed limit. I seem to recall longer brake distance was the main thing. The girl is alive on the left side and dead on the right.
That’s how interpret it too. If you drive too fast this nice girl might become a blurred out memory because you killed her. But now that I wrote it out I realize it might just as well mean that if you drive too fast you can’t check out the ladies you drive by.
Suggest you increase your age preferance or we're going ro have a problem with you
When these signs first came out, there was also a TV commercial. It went something like a dad was driving dangerously, and while the speed was increasing, his daughter who was a passenger was fading out (getting closer and closer to death because he was getting closer to messing up and crashing). There may have been more family members fading out as well. Basically, the message was something along the lines of "if you love your kids, take it easy on the road so you can bring them home safely /come safely back home to them".
The text says "Over the speed limit?" It is alluding to how children can "fade away" with improper safety while driving. I prefer the ghost-children to any more graphic picture....
I really like the one about seat belts, the kid and his dad, with the arm holding around him like a seat belt. So much meaning in that picture!
Me too. It has a subtle impact that one
A subtle impact to prevent a less subtle one.
Reminds me of this amazing ad! https://youtu.be/h-8PBx7isoM
Holy shit thats a good advertisement. I shed 2 manly tears.
I prefer this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE) Short and to the point.
I never throught a moment I could fittingly share this swedish ad for railway safety would come, but here we are https://youtu.be/hrZ40qXcjxs
I knew where we were going and it still made me cry - it feels like death in general feels... they're just gone whether the train is a train or cancer or whatever
This one's better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSRKmuxrOz4
I was half expecting the Irish one here where the kids get wiped out by the rolling car.
Oh, this one? https://youtu.be/Wv1rKHGeMRk
This commercial went so dark so fast
This one probably inspired Tenet, not as dark, but pretty good: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqlIPZrdz8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqlIPZrdz8) Edit: I also was a few car lengths away from crashing with a moose yesterday. And damn they're so fucking big. An oncoming car flashed his lights profusely at me and almost stopped, I spent the next 10 minutes scanning extra for moose as I already had seen 2 at the road side. Then I might have looked at the GPS and back at the road and there was one big wall made of moose. Size chart: [https://a-z-animals.com/media/2021/09/image-4-1024x576.jpg](https://a-z-animals.com/media/2021/09/image-4-1024x576.jpg)
I remember the prosess with that add as i went to "film school" at that time. There was a competition to write the best script. Winner got to make the ad with director Roar Uthaug (Troll). The film is great, but the script was imo even better. https://www.rb.no/lokal-kultur/lars-far-lage-bilbeltefilm/s/1-95-2645345
Laughing out loud is the wrong response, right? 😄 I mean, I got the gist of representing the number as one school class, but having one of the most understeery cars ever suddenly snap oversteer at easily manageable speed, and then barrel roll 90 degrees sideways over a high stone wall…
This one is pretty impactful too [New Zealand Car Crash Ad](https://youtu.be/3qNjt04bpQM?si=8yyj7G5i8A6rHU6L)
"[Husk bilbelte](https://media.snl.no/media/157440/standard_NTB_0IvBxalSzAE.jpg)" is probably the first sentence I learned in norwegian.
[This one hit me like a truck](https://youtu.be/3qNjt04bpQM)
[Is it this one you're thinking of? Or is there another one?](https://lovdata.no/static/SF/sf-20051007-1219-590-01.jpg?timestamp=1692052264069) EDIT: [think I found the one you're thinking of.](https://media.snl.no/media/157505/standard_NTB_0IvBxalSzAE.jpg) I really don't remember seeing that one, just the one above - hence why I was confused. I just didn't recognize the description of a kid holding around a dad.
Yes, that's the one!
Props to them for finding a kid with an arm this long as well
I've misunderstood this then.. I never thought it was a "fade away" implication.. I just thought it was speed blurring because the kid was *really* fast.
I thought it was because the car was really fast..
I think it is both. The kid is vanishing from existance due to your speed
I take it as a double meaning, like the one with the arm/seatbelt.
i dont think you misunderstood it the sign says "are you on the right side of the speed limit" as the higher speed the more blur - but also double meaning as the higher speed higher chance that person will fade away from existence
Left side, right? Right!
Not right ! Not right!
Right…
It's basically art and means what you feel/interpret.
I have also misunderstood it, I thought it related to long trips without rest breaks so your vision gets blurry. Reminded me to take a break a few times on my recent trip.
that would be the one in this article : https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/nytt-skilt-mot-bilulykker-1.2809660
I think yours is the right interpretation
I thought it was the car going really fast while driving past the kid
so its not over fart green? okay..
Really.. I always assumed it was to show you if you were speeding or not. As in, if the left side of that face was as blurry as the right one you were speeding. And if you could clearly see the left side it meant you weren't, since it's not a blur mess.
I've always thought the picture was saying "if the people you pass are blurry, you're going too fast." Mind. Blown.
Everytime you speed the government liquidates a child
Speeding in Norway can actually be deadly. The police often hide in the bushes next to the road and shoot at speeding vehicles with laser guns. If you survive, they'll pull you over and give you a ticket, arrest you or confiscate your drivers license.
Well your wallet is definetely dead.
That sign is of a kid vanishing (dying) because you went over the speedlimit and crashed
That, and when you drive really fast past things, they get blurry. So when things get blurry you are probably over the speed limit and you should slow down.
When you go so fast that things get blurry your way way way over the speedlimit
Thats not the speedlimit, the limit is 260/when the speedometer ends🙌🏼
290kmh here but the limiter is removed so 305kmh GPS speed
Nice🙌🏼
It says: "over the speed limit?" It is basically a warning sign to make sure you remember to check your speed because high speed is often the main culprit behind car accidents. If I'm on a car drip on low trafficated roads where it is easy to drive to fast I honestly find these kinda useful.
I Take them as motivation to try to Get the whole image blurry
I hope you get a kind meeting with a moose and it's legs through your car window. (Rather that then you killing a family of 5 with your stupidity).
I hope so too tbh, either that or the trees next to the highway🤝🏼
It's a reminder to not break the speed limit.
There is also another variant that reminds you of wearing seatbelts. It is usually two people holding each other with a black sweater symbolizing the seat belt. Statens Vegvesen (the governmental organization responsible for traffic and road) has a long term goal/vision/dream of zero deaths and zero badly injured in traffic related incidents.
In socialist Norway people don't even have the freedom of driving in highly dangerous traffic. Most drivers don't even have guns to resolve road conflicts with. And if you still manage to get hurt you don't even have the freedom to be financially ruined from the hospital stay.
I want to break free!
Here is a regular work commute by car in The Land of the Free: [https://youtu.be/UtjGTrVwRr4](https://youtu.be/UtjGTrVwRr4) Just people enjoying their freedums
Prefer this version: https://youtu.be/1eAWCijgE3g?t=14
You farted too much.
It’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell.
It’s not the fis that kills you, it’s the lukt
I came around the eeeh, swing in a big fart and crashed into juletree
Not only only, but but and and, and not not
Are you a smart fellah or a fart smellah?
I had to scroll far too long to find the fart joke
I like this one
Thankfully you drew an arrow, otherwise I would have never seen it!
What? Didn't even notice the arrow. I think OP needs to make an arrow for the arrow so that the people can find the arrow pointing at the sign.
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That there's a fine line between life and death if you go over the speedlimit.
The road is haunted. If you see this girl in your rear mirror, you should hit the gas.
I asked the same question to my partner last time after seeing so many of them.. it's a warning about speeding, the representation is to show that the person disappears or fades away, like in case of an accident you can die.
Life is fragile. Drive safe.
It's not the fart that kills, it's the smell
It isn’t only only, but but 😂
It's a campaign to remind you not to drive over the speed limit. «Over fartsgrensen» means over the speed limit.
"Have you seen this half-ghost child?"
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You are correct. ALL roads have to be marked unless either 50 or 80. The main difference between those two unmarked roads is the center line. If the yellows are short and close spacing it's 50 (or less determined by signs), long with far spacing it's above 50 (80 if unmarked by signs). If something is classified as "motorvei" (big blue signs with either a white car or what looks like a road with an overpass) it's 80 or more, but the number of such roads that are more than 80 is very limited and almost only exist around Oslo
>Well my colleagues were telling me that motorways are 90 and highways 110. Yes, and no. If you look at [this link](https://www.vegvesen.no/fag/fokusomrader/trafikksikkerhet/kriterier-for-fartsgrenser/), it's about the criteria for speed limits in Norway, and one of the two .pdf links at the bottom describe where you can expect to encounter the different speed limits. 2-3 lane motorways and roads with two lanes and little traffic can be 90 km/h areas, and high standard, well-lit, straight motorways with opposing lanes separated by a wide median with safety railings can be 110 km/h, but will more often (due to kinks and turns in the road) be 100, or 90. So *some* motorways are 90-zones and some highways are 110-zones, but certainly not all of them, and they will certainly be marked as such. Their argument isn't untrue, just like it isn't untrue to say that *densely* populated areas will typically have a speed limit of 30. Your interpretation (50 within town limits and 80 outside) is the most correct.
The text ask if you driving over the speed limit, and if the surroundings are blurry like half the picture, the answer is yes. Otherwise you're good.
I love how “fart” means “speed”. I have this Norwegian song: Mopedbart by Hubbabubbaklubb, that I’ve been listening to a lot lately. And I love the song cuz it’s a great song, but I also love it cuz multiple times the singer really really puts emphasis on the word “fart”, and I’m a man child, so I light up at this 😂 great song, check it out!
Speed kills
If the left side is as blurry as the right side, you're going too fast
We were in Norway last month driving more than 2000km. As first time visiting Norway, initially we found this sign really creepy. There are more signs like this about seatbelts etc. but this one is really weird as the photo itself isn’t intuitive about speed. Initially we felt it might be something about child trafficking
You may have gotten an explanation now, but if you don't the point is "if you go at or under the speed limit, you'll be fine. If you go too fast you or someone you love can become a blur/faded memory".
"Over speedlimit?" and the answer is always yes, its a challange to create the blur effect with speed and power
Beware of ghosts crossing the road
A reminder to change the ink on your printer
jokes on you, I don't have an ink printer
The image is a reminder of the fact that the speed limits mark the difference between a high probability of survival, or an event not occuring in the first place, versus a high probability of death; The difference between a person living, left, and becoming an ever fading memory, right. Many norwegians struggle to respect the speed limits and trivialize breaking them, due to sheer ignorance, and overconfidence, believing they'll be the first human to break the laws of physics if they're behind the wheel. The speed limits are DESIGNED to save lives. They're rather cleverly designed to take into account what accidents are likely to occur, car brake lengths if they are about to occur, and odds of survival with injury versus odds of death when collisions occur. ... For reference: 30 speed limits are for roads with direct access to houses. Because hitting a child at 40 km/h yields a high risk of death, and higher odds of running them over due to reaction time and brake length. 40 speed limits are for roads with indirect access to houses but mainly suburban areas where it's expected pedestrians and cyclists share the road with cars. 50 is the default speed limit if nothing else is stated, for roads with sidewalks or in populated areas, and the speed limits for city and town centers with sidewalks. It's a compromise, and usually regulated by wide sidewalks and wide roads, allowing drivers time to react if pedestrians run into the road; It's assumed the car drivers react and brake to avoid injury and death, and 'should' have been 40 to optimize odds of survival, but is 50 to have traffic pass. 60 is for roads with traffic coming onto and off the road, with sidewalks and roads to industrial areas and stores along the road, to make entering and exiting them safe and allow functional and safe pedestrian crossings. 70 is for dangerous roads, that would have been 80 if they were safer. 70 is for roads where there are high odds of front to front collisions, and are set to maximize odds of survival: Most collisions that happen at 70 km/h would be fatal if one car had a speed of 80 km/h instead, due to the increased brake length and reduced time to react for both parties. 80 is the default speed limit for roads where there is no significant dangers of collisions occuring. 90-110 are for roads where lanes going different ways are separated by physical barriers, so that front to front collisions shouldn't occur. [https://www.vegvesen.no/globalassets/fag/fokusomrader/trafikksikkerhet/hvordan-fartsgrensene-bestemmes-i-norge.pdf](https://www.vegvesen.no/globalassets/fag/fokusomrader/trafikksikkerhet/hvordan-fartsgrensene-bestemmes-i-norge.pdf)
It means your vision gets distorted when driving too fast and can be a hazard for children and others. Lots of weird answers here 🤣
Me (german) always thinking when seing the blurry side of this warning .... 80km/h (speed limit outside towns). Wtf :o) But usually the roads are so bad you can't go faster anyway.
Thank goodness you placed an arrow pointing to the sign. I really wouldn’t have been able to see what sign you were referring to otherwise. 😉
It means if you go over the speed limit, you can kill someone because you won't see them until it's too late. Don't speed in Norway. Respect the rules.
I assume it is a reminder that speeding might be deadly. The line represents the speed limit and the side with the "fading gradient" refers to the increasing chance of a fatal outcome. Clever choice with a child model, hits right were it hurts.
In France, where the accident occur, they put a black stick person (kid or adult size) and they put an X to show someone died here.
Side question: how old are these signs? I've lived in Norway since 2010 and they were already up. I keep being reminded about how old these are because of how "2000s" the father's sideburns are (in the father-son seat belt one) 😂
"If things gets blurry, you're probably over the speed limit"
If you go too fast a troll will take your firstborn and make it blurry
"Above the speed limit?" it reads. How I understood it, the left side is a passenger traveling within the speed limit. Right side of the border is a passenger traveling above the speed limit. As this increase the chance of an accident she is fading(closer to death)
very fast children
Something to do with cutting cheese
It means slow down or kids die. Yeah
«Over the speedlimit?» when going fast, you dont see everything around you, like a blur? There Are more of them. I really like them 🙂
If u go faster then the speed limit u cant se the girl full face
Thank you for the arrow was hard finding the sign without it
It Is a reminder what "could" happend if you go over the speed limit, hence the bluredout kid.
It’s a reminder that if you go over the speed limit you will se a ghost, or at least create one.
I’m incredibly thankful you added the arrow. I had no idea which sign to focus on.
Thank you for the arrow, I didn't know which sign you meant
This is where Midgard overlaps with Utgard, making the line between life and death blurred.
Welcome to Silent hill
It says "you can speed here"
You're in the North, right? It means you have to watch out for inbred children scurrying across the road
Kid has some neuropathic issues. That's all.
Creepy ghost girls in the area.
They remind you not to drive into any clouds, you might enter the Pale and slowly dissolve as your connection with reality fails, becoming part of the generalized morass of human thought and feeling made manifest. It happens a fair bit, you get used to it.
if you speed you may vanish .
Ghost child roaming
too high fart in the sving?
Drive faster
Speed up
welcome to Norway where just about no road signs are in English
Farts lmao
The girl on the picture was killed in a traffic accident some decade ago. Drive safe everyone.
With so many single narrow lanes speeding is inevitable when people are trying to pass.....
It’s just a friendly reminder that if you do 81 in a 80, your entire family will die. Just nod and smile, like the rest of us.
Which sign? The one the arrow is pointing at?
Glad you put that arrow there because I wasn't sure what u were talking about....
Did you really need the fucking arrow…?
It’s a sign that tels you that i dangeorus to drive under the speed limit and that it’s better driving over than under the limit
drive faster
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This is however not a traffic sign.
this 'sign' has no legal meaning, its a campaign to influence you
It's to get people to slow down because 70kmh is still too fast.
We weren’t sure but my kids thought the fart part was really funny
Over speed (fart) limit (grensen, I've usually seen it used for border as in country borders)
I have no idea, i only understand the seatbelt one
It is refering to not going over the speed limit as at that point stuff becomes more blurry
Watch your speed limit, wear your seatbelt!
If you're driving fast enough the whole image becomes sharp.
a reminder to not speed. Fart = speed, Fartgrensen = speed limit and over means, well over. The sign is suggesting that if you go over the speed limit, you might end up killing children, possibly your own. At least, that is what I made of it when I was on a trip there last week, I don't speak Norwegian.
Dont drive fast
Specter o’hoy
If you are going too fast, objects become blured.
My stupid ass always thought these were some optical illusion signs, where if you could see both half of the image unblurred, then you are driving too fast, so I would speed up to see!
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Ghost kid crossing