warning triangles

Emergency breakdown signals

Warning triangles are reflective roadside markers placed behind a stopped vehicle to alert approaching traffic.

Standard equipment in many countries, they fold flat for storage and unfold into a triangular shape that catches headlights: He set up warning triangles fifty meters behind the stalled car.

Also called hazard triangles or emergency triangles.

Opposites
signaling function

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Positive warning signs

visibility/attention

warning trianglescamouflage

Concealment through visual blending

signal type

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Pyrotechnic distress signals

road flares · emergency flares · hazard lights · strobe lights

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G