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GPS also often gets confused and suddenly thinks the car is on a frontage road instead of the freeway. Under this proposal, would the car suddenly brake to 25 m
by anon373839 3y ago
GPS also often gets confused and suddenly thinks the car is on a frontage road instead of the freeway. Under this proposal, would the car suddenly brake to 25 mph when that happens?
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoFrontage roads are more of a southern USA thing than a west coast thing. You could just speed limit the car to the highest speed limit in the state/county/within 100 meters and still do some good.
- anon373839 3y agoCalifornia has them all over the place.
- no_wizard 3y agoIndeed! They’re everywhere really, especially along 99
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI’ve lived in the Bay Area and LA and have never seen one next to a freeway at least. Maybe a bit next to 101 between the cities, but they never go through or provide much access to the freeway (they didn’t provide parallel access to the freeway, on and off ramps were normal). Definitely not a huge road actually named Frontage Road that I found common in Mississippi and when I did a stint in Austin.
- CalRobert 3y agoVisit Lodi, Stockton, Fresno, Turlock, Ripon, Bakersfield, Modesto, Manteca, etc. etc. and you will find them very common. Here's an example of a road named Frontage Rd by I-5 in Lodi. https://maps.app.goo.gl/HtXDV95yTpDzPTyc9 https://maps.app.goo.gl/HtXDV95yTpDzPTyc9
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoUgh, California is big. I lived in Austin one summer and they had 5 lane frontage roads surrounding ten lane freeways, and of course Mississippi had frontage road around I20 pretty much everywhere. Here in Seattle, we barely have any roads that run next to freeways at all, their simply isn’t enough room.
- CalRobert 3y agoBetween San Diego and Riverside on I-15 they put a toll freeway inside the main freeway. Almost a frontage freeway!
- jjav 3y ago> GPS also often gets confused and suddenly thinks the car is on a frontage road instead of the freeway. When driving on Highway 17 (between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz, southern silicon valley area), very often my GPS will suddenly jump to being in one of the tiny mountain roads that parallel 17 and trying to start rerouting me back to 17 even though I'm on 17. For anyone familiar with 17, you can imagine the consequences if the car braked hard in the middle of a corner from highway speed to tiny backroad speed!