Stop sign
A stop sign is a traffic sign to notify drivers that they must stop before proceeding.
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B2b
Acceptable variant of B2b
Acceptable variant of B2b
Acceptable variant of B2b
The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals (finalized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Conference on Road Traffic in 1968 and in force in 1978) proposed the standard stop sign diameters of 600, 900 or 1200 mm.
The UK and New Zealand stop signs are 750, 900 or 1200 mm, according to sign location and traffic speeds.
In the United States, stop signs have a size of 750 mm across opposite flats of the red octagon, with a 20 mm white border. The white uppercase letters in small caps forming the stop legend are 250 mm tall. Larger signs of 900 mm (35 in) with 300 mm (12 in) legend and 25 mm (⅞ in) border are used on multi-lane expressways. Regulatory provisions exist for extra-large 1,200 mm (47 in) signs with 400 mm (16 in) legend and 30 mm (1 1⁄4 in) border for use where sign visibility or reaction distance are limited, and the smallest permissible stop sign size for general usage is 600 mm (24 in) with a 200 mm (7.9 in) legend and 15 mm (⅝ in) border. The metric units specified in the US regulatory manuals are rounded approximations of US customary units, not exact conversions. The field, legend, and border are all retroreflective. In the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of the UN, the instruction on the sign to stop is specified to be either in English as stop or written in the local language. Some countries use both. The sign's distinctive design was developed and first used in the US, and later adopted by other countries and by the UN. Despite this, the US is not a signatory to this UN Convention. The reason that the US has the same sign design as specified by the Convention is that the Convention adopted the US standard.
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