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.
‘ “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.
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.
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.
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 change to wider highway lines from 4” to 6” is only because of new car technology. “Self-driving” cars and lane departure warning systems can’t reliably see 4” wide stripes. They need the wider 6” stripes. I also see the wider stripes better at my age. I like them but it costs more money.
Michigan also has the specially compoundeded paint that becomes totally invisible when its wet.
Too late.
I’m posting now from a section of St. Pete where all the streets are pink.
5.56mm
And why did 4” do just fine for decades?
Every change made just costs more. None ever cost less.