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> the road engineers should have made sure the lines were painted correctly If this is the intersection, they were painted correctly: https://goo.gl/maps/QuuR
by trimbo 9y ago
> the road engineers should have made sure the lines were painted correctly
If this is the intersection, they were painted correctly:
https://goo.gl/maps/QuuRiixk6Y42 https://goo.gl/maps/QuuRiixk6Y42
But in this video, the left solid white line was more visible than the right one. For whatever reason -- a trick of light, snowplows tore it up this winter, who knows.
That kind of thing is going to happen and autonomous cars need to deal with it in order to be actually autonomous.
- ilyagr 9y agoI believe it's this intersection, judging by the signs in the beginning of video. Paint is not great. https://goo.gl/maps/V9qnLYTL2tn https://goo.gl/maps/V9qnLYTL2tn
- lozenge 9y agoIn the UK there would be about three times as many chevrons and they would be much thicker - see figure 4-18: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/223667/traffic-signs-manual-chapter-05.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
- princekolt 9y agoOn a tangible subject: Why do so many US highways use such a light gray colored asphalt mixture? This certainly doesn't help on the contrast with the road markings.