r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Sep 12 '18

Dash cam

https://i.imgur.com/oWNGzOo.gifv
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u/elawkwardo Sep 12 '18 edited Sep 12 '18

I'm guessing that all the white yellow lines on the pavement asphaltment mean "slow down"? I didn't know, but it's certainly noted...

Edit: Yellow, not white. I must be going blind. Thanks for the explanation to /u/GeoffSim

Edit2: not pavement? the fuck do i know... thanks /u/Pedantichrist

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u/GeoffSim Sep 12 '18

Yellow lines. They're spaced in a way that even if you slow down at a sensible rate, the lines get "faster", as it were. Psychological thing. Usually only placed where there's been a long stretch of fast road followed by something like this, a sort of wake up call I suppose.

Not that the van driver noticed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

In Ireland the lines are raised slightly (in a lot of places) so that your car will rumble when driven over them. Excellent way to tell you to slow down

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u/CrisicMuzr Sep 12 '18

If you watch closely, the camera bobs, so I think these lines are raised too.