2728: Lane Change Highway - Revision history

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ Add hyperlink

2023-11-19T22:11:36Z

‎Explanation: Add hyperlink

DKMell: added links, clarified some bits

2023-10-24T05:11:20Z

added links, clarified some bits

172.69.34.112: /* Explanation */ 101 in California

2023-02-19T22:52:42Z

‎Explanation: 101 in California

No Idea If There's A Character Limit LMAO: Just in case you didn't know, title texts shouldn't be added to transcriptions! So this article's complete!

2023-02-16T22:39:49Z

Just in case you didn't know, title texts shouldn't be added to transcriptions! So this article's complete!

172.71.222.222: /* Explanation */

2023-01-27T15:22:20Z

‎Explanation

162.158.179.82: Added line on magnetic declination

2023-01-26T08:46:35Z

Added line on magnetic declination

172.70.178.48: /* Transcript */

2023-01-25T06:14:23Z

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172.70.111.76: /* Explanation */

2023-01-25T02:41:14Z

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172.70.210.145: /* Explanation */ redundant explanation

2023-01-24T21:20:08Z

‎Explanation: redundant explanation

172.69.33.154: /* Trivia */ eng

2023-01-24T17:19:07Z

‎Trivia: eng

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 Effectively every car would have to drive with their left turn blinker on constantly in order to drive in a regular straight line. Alternatively cars could stage their lane changes which would make them swerve gently back and forth across the road. Since everyone will choose a different strategy, the road would be chaos. People would almost never try to make a right lane change since lanes to the right end sooner.
-While considerably less extreme, a section of U.S. 101 "North" (which is actually traveling west) in southern California is somewhat like this. The road is four lanes when crossing over I-405, with an additional lane immediately entering on the right from I-405 South, but three of these lanes become exit only lanes in the San Fernando Valley (at Haskell Avenue, Havenhurst Avenue, and Topanga Canyon Blvd) and two in Ventura County (one in Thousand Oaks and one in Ventura), so all through traffic must merge into the two lanes that enter on the left carrying traffic from I-405 North.
+While considerably less extreme, a section of U.S. 101 "North" (which is actually traveling west) in southern California is somewhat like this. The road is four lanes [https://maps.app.goo.gl/T2nVHmojqwSTkxceA when crossing over I-405], with an additional lane immediately entering on the right from I-405 South, but three of these lanes become exit only lanes in the San Fernando Valley (at Haskell Avenue, Havenhurst Avenue, and Topanga Canyon Blvd) and two in Ventura County (one in Thousand Oaks and one in Ventura), so all through traffic must merge into the two lanes that enter on the left carrying traffic from I-405 North.
 The title text refers to local {{w|magnetic declination}}, the angle between the magnetic north pole and the true (geographic) north pole. This is almost always not aligned with road directions, so lanes following it would slant across the road as in this comic. In addition, magnetic declination varies over time due to {{w|polar wander|polar wandering}}, so the lane markers on the highway would need to be regularly updated.

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 Effectively every car would have to drive with their left turn blinker on constantly in order to drive in a regular straight line. Alternatively cars could stage their lane changes which would make them swerve gently back and forth across the road. Since everyone will choose a different strategy, the road would be chaos. People would almost never try to make a right lane change since lanes to the right end sooner.
-While considerably less extreme, a section of U.S. 101 "North" (which is actually traveling west) in California is somewhat like this.  The road is four lanes when crossing over I-405, with an additional lane immediately entering on the right from I-405 South, but three of these lanes become exit only lanes in the San Fernado Valley (at Haskell Avenue, Havenhurst Avenue, and Topanga Canyon Blvd) and two in Ventura County (one in Thousand Oaks and one in Ventura), so all through traffic must merge into the two lanes that enter on the left carrying traffic from I-405 North.
+While considerably less extreme, a section of U.S. 101 "North" (which is actually traveling west) in southern California is somewhat like this. The road is four lanes when crossing over I-405, with an additional lane immediately entering on the right from I-405 South, but three of these lanes become exit only lanes in the San Fernando Valley (at Haskell Avenue, Havenhurst Avenue, and Topanga Canyon Blvd) and two in Ventura County (one in Thousand Oaks and one in Ventura), so all through traffic must merge into the two lanes that enter on the left carrying traffic from I-405 North.
-The title text refers to local {{w|magnetic declination}}, the angle between the magnetic north pole and the true (geographic) north pole. Magnetic declination varies over time due to polar wandering and so the lane markers on the highway would need to be regularly updated to account for this.
+The title text refers to local {{w|magnetic declination}}, the angle between the magnetic north pole and the true (geographic) north pole. This is almost always not aligned with road directions, so lanes following it would slant across the road as in this comic. In addition, magnetic declination varies over time due to {{w|polar wander|polar wandering}}, so the lane markers on the highway would need to be regularly updated.
 ==Transcript==

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	Effectively every car would have to drive with their left turn blinker on constantly in order to drive in a regular straight line. Alternatively cars could stage their lane changes which would make them swerve gently back and forth across the road. Since everyone will choose a different strategy, the road would be chaos. People would almost never try to make a right lane change since lanes to the right end sooner.		Effectively every car would have to drive with their left turn blinker on constantly in order to drive in a regular straight line. Alternatively cars could stage their lane changes which would make them swerve gently back and forth across the road. Since everyone will choose a different strategy, the road would be chaos. People would almost never try to make a right lane change since lanes to the right end sooner.
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		+	While considerably less extreme, a section of U.S. 101 "North" (which is actually traveling west) in California is somewhat like this. The road is four lanes when crossing over I-405, with an additional lane immediately entering on the right from I-405 South, but three of these lanes become exit only lanes in the San Fernado Valley (at Haskell Avenue, Havenhurst Avenue, and Topanga Canyon Blvd) and two in Ventura County (one in Thousand Oaks and one in Ventura), so all through traffic must merge into the two lanes that enter on the left carrying traffic from I-405 North.

	The title text refers to local {{w\|magnetic declination}}, the angle between the magnetic north pole and the true (geographic) north pole. Magnetic declination varies over time due to polar wandering and so the lane markers on the highway would need to be regularly updated to account for this.		The title text refers to local {{w\|magnetic declination}}, the angle between the magnetic north pole and the true (geographic) north pole. Magnetic declination varies over time due to polar wandering and so the lane markers on the highway would need to be regularly updated to account for this.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|Created by a CANDY CANE ROAD - Please continue to expand the description, add the title text. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 {{w|Highway}}s are large roads designated for high-speed traffic. Like in [[253: Highway Engineer Pranks]], [[Randall]] proposes an ineffective highway design, which reportedly got him fired.

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 Effectively every car would have to drive with their left turn blinker on constantly in order to drive in a regular straight line. Alternatively cars could stage their lane changes which would make them swerve gently back and forth across the road. Since everyone will choose a different strategy, the road would be chaos. People would almost never try to make a right lane change since lanes to the right end sooner.
-The title text refers to local {{w|magnetic declination}} which is the angle between magnetic north and true north. Magnetic declination varies over time due to polar wandering and so the lane markers on the highway would need to be regularly updated to account for this.
+The title text refers to local {{w|magnetic declination}}, the angle between the magnetic north pole and the true (geographic) north pole. Magnetic declination varies over time due to polar wandering and so the lane markers on the highway would need to be regularly updated to account for this.
 ==Transcript==

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	Effectively every car would have to drive with their left turn blinker on constantly in order to drive in a regular straight line. Alternatively cars could stage their lane changes which would make them swerve gently back and forth across the road. Since everyone will choose a different strategy, the road would be chaos. People would almost never try to make a right lane change since lanes to the right end sooner.		Effectively every car would have to drive with their left turn blinker on constantly in order to drive in a regular straight line. Alternatively cars could stage their lane changes which would make them swerve gently back and forth across the road. Since everyone will choose a different strategy, the road would be chaos. People would almost never try to make a right lane change since lanes to the right end sooner.
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		+	The title text refers to local {{w\|magnetic declination}} which is the angle between magnetic north and true north. Magnetic declination varies over time due to polar wandering and so the lane markers on the highway would need to be regularly updated to account for this.

	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

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 ==Transcript==
-:[In a white panel a black road starts at the bottom left and curves gently towards the right until the middle of the panel, where it begins curving slightly to the left ending in the top right corner. The road has space for four lanes divided by lane markers, but the markers does not follow the direction of the road but goes more from left to right than the road, even though they do follow the general curve of the road, but never the actual direction of the road. This results in all these lanes to end near the right edge of the road. Every time the lane gets too near the edge the lane lines stop and on the end of the lane there is a curving arrow pointing left. Below the arrows the word "Merge" is written. This happens seven times on this small patch of Highway. At the bottom and top there are the lane marker lines entering and exiting, so always there are four lanes. After the three starting at the bottom, seven new ones begin, the last just below the top, where the final merge arrow also is, stopping the last of the right lines from exiting at the top.]
+:[In a white panel a black road starts at the bottom left and curves gently towards the right until the middle of the panel, where it begins curving slightly to the left ending in the top right corner. The road has space for four lanes divided by lane markers, but the markers does not follow the direction of the road but goes more from left to right than the road, even though they do follow the general curve of the road, but never the actual direction of the road. This results in all these lanes to end near the right edge of the road. Every time the lane gets too near the edge the lane lines stop and on the end of the lane there is a curving arrow pointing left. Below the arrows the word "Merge" is written. This happens seven times on this small patch of highway. At the bottom and top there are the lane marker lines entering and exiting, so there are always four lanes. After the three starting at the bottom, seven new ones begin, the last just below the top, where the final merge arrow also is, stopping the last of the right lines from exiting at the top.]
 :Merge
 :Merge

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	Here, Randall has designed a highway where the lanes are not aligned to the road, thus constantly expanding to the left and requiring merges from the right. This is highly impractical, as each individual lane merge is a difficult maneuver compared to normal driving; being forced to perform these near-constantly is a large hindrance at the least and a large danger at the most.		Here, Randall has designed a highway where the lanes are not aligned to the road, thus constantly expanding to the left and requiring merges from the right. This is highly impractical, as each individual lane merge is a difficult maneuver compared to normal driving; being forced to perform these near-constantly is a large hindrance at the least and a large danger at the most.
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		+	Effectively every car would have to drive with their left turn blinker on constantly in order to drive in a regular straight line. Alternatively cars could stage their lane changes which would make them swerve gently back and forth across the road. Since everyone will choose a different strategy, the road would be chaos. People would almost never try to make a right lane change since lanes to the right end sooner.

	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

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	Here, Randall has designed a highway where the lanes are not aligned to the road, thus constantly expanding to the left and requiring merges from the right. This is highly impractical, as each individual lane merge is a difficult maneuver compared to normal driving; being forced to perform these near-constantly is a large hindrance at the least and a large danger at the most.		Here, Randall has designed a highway where the lanes are not aligned to the road, thus constantly expanding to the left and requiring merges from the right. This is highly impractical, as each individual lane merge is a difficult maneuver compared to normal driving; being forced to perform these near-constantly is a large hindrance at the least and a large danger at the most.
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−	The speaker, a highway traffic engineer, decided to build a highway that requires constant changing of lanes to stay on the road. This is incredibly unsafe as it means that drivers - in effect - need to disregard the lane markings and drive by their own intuitions.

	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

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	{{comic discussion}}		{{comic discussion}}
		+	[[Category:Engineering]]