103
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
no edit summary
[[File:Img_l_1306483.jpg|thumb|180px|right|[[User:MayaCova|MayaCova]] was using a white board with considerable success.]]
If you have a chance to plan a long hitchhiking trip in advance, some find using an erasable white board as a sign to be very useful for making big, clear and reusable signs.
You can make a reusable white-board simply out of a paper map and an adhesive tape. Simply apply adhesive tape on the white side of the map, and/or on the good one ( you can show your route to driver, and plan your trip by painting on it). If you don't need all space of the map, and/or to make it more firm for easier holding in wind You can simply use binder clips [http://getsimplifized.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/binder-clip.jpg Binder clip]. Mine is 80cm x 60cm when spreaded and 20cm x 10xm when folded.
Pros: quite big when in use (depends on the size you buy of course), handy and small when not in use.
Cons: takes some time to make it nice and flat without any wrinkles, hard to use full size in strong wind.
--[[User:Strazdas007|Strazdas007]] ([[User talk:Strazdas007|talk]]) 01:52, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Remember the sign has to be read from a distance. At 100km/hr, a vehicle is covering approx 30 meters/second. The average reaction time when driving is 1.5 to 2.5 seconds, so 45 to 75 meters has gone before they start to stop. If you want them to stop, then you not only have to place yourself in the right location so they can see that you are a traveler and not just cagging a lift (this is what the sign does), you also have to have a sign that is readable. The more space between each letter the better to be read from a distance. (This is called Kernel, e.g. see road signs specifications.)
