Posted on 12/19/2022 6:08:45 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That explains Michigan. As I saw on Google Maps street view, they're starting to paint their roads with fatter yellow stripes.
Some states are more yellow than others depending on their politics.
Different custom yellow paints means competition is made difficult when buying paint.
I would hope other paint producers could duplicate the characteristics.
Insert Dan Rather quote here.
Congress must end this nonsense! In their own inimitable way.
Things I learned from a video documentary:
A woman came up with the idea, and painted a white line down the middle of her street to give some order to traffic and stop accidents and arguments.
The broken white line was originally adopted to save on paint.
How many shades of yellow are there...2?
‘ “When I travel around the country and I talk to customers, that’s the number one product they ask for: a product that can be applied in much colder temperatures or wet conditions,” he said. “That’s something we’re actively looking at.”’
Hang on, I thought global warming was supposed to be making things hotter? Oh, that is why we have to call it climate change because it is not necessarily getting hotter but we have to score people.
Why? Because “self driving” cars had trouble seeing the narrow ones.
50 shades of yellow
Yup!
I can always tell when a drunk is driving by, especially late at night, just by listening!
Thunk, thunk, thunk...silence...thunk...silence...thunk, thunk...silence...thunk...silence...thunk, think, thunk.
That’s what is implied further down in the article beyond the excerpt.
At first, I thought, why would the feds want to mandate the wider stripes? Only Stevie Wonder could miss the 4-inch stripes they have in states like Montana and Idaho.
Then I read about the self-driving cars.
Next they will be mandated to paint rainbow stripes.
I’ve noticed here in Kentucky that the country roads have different lines depending on the width of the road.
A full-sized road has lines in the middle and solid white lines on the edges.
A narrower road has lines in the middle but no white lines on the side.
If the road becomes really narrow, to where it’s more of a lane than a road, it doesn’t have any lines at all.
And signs that tell you the name of this or that little country road? Fuhgeddaboudit.
Cool story - thanks for sharing.
That 50 different hues of yellow is primarily a way to create more business for those paint companies. Creating regulations for painting the road lines is highly important but also sounds highly boring.
Or is it one shade of yellow with 50 different names?
The nice thing about standards is there’s so many of them.
“The nice thing about standards is there’s so many of them.”
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Very clever!
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