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Your points are totally valid. But you wouldn't need to make sharp 120 turns. You could just have very slight waves with a frequency of 1 mile. http://i.imgur.
by jamesrom 10y ago
Your points are totally valid. But you wouldn't need to make sharp 120 turns. You could just have very slight waves with a frequency of 1 mile.
http://i.imgur.com/vJq0Q3i.png http://i.imgur.com/vJq0Q3i.png
Of course, driving on roads like these would be annoying.
- Ma8ee 10y agoBut it would help you not fall asleep while driving.
- amelius 10y agoIf you would pack the circles slightly less densely, then you could have straight roads. Also, if the circles are sufficiently large, I don't think it would be annoying to drive these slightly wiggly roads.
- jamesrom 10y agoPacking the circles such that you get a straight road would negate the need to pack them hexagonally.
- zeveb 10y ago> Of course, driving on roads like these would be annoying. ITYM awesome. Those roads are normally 30 mph, so at with 1 mile fields one would change course every two minutes I wonder if it might help protect against highway hypnosis to have a course adjustment every mile or so.
- abduhl 10y agoKansas, and likely other mid-Western states that I don't know about, have historically added "artificial" curves on their highways to increase safety by stimulating drivers and reducing boredom.
- HeyLaughingBoy 10y agoLiving on a gravel road, I drive them every day. If ever there was a cure for highway hypnosis, it would be driving on gravel...