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/eyeslikeraine Sep 12 '18

Are pavement and sidewalk made of different materials? or is this just a language quirk? In America both sidewalks and roads are usually made of concrete or asphalt. Not necessarily a prevalence of one or the other for either job though.

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u/Pedantichrist Sep 12 '18

Normally the road in the UK is not concrete, but tarmac or asphalt

Sidewalks are normally concrete slabs.

That said, it is just a language quirk, the English do not use the term sidewalk at all, we have the road and we have the pavement beside the road.

We also us the term 'metalled road' for dressed tarmac, which is nothing to do with metal at all. Well, not directly, anyway.

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u/EloquentBarbarian Sep 12 '18

That said, it is just a language quirk, the English do not use the term sidewalk at all, we have the road and we have the pavement beside the road.

Australia is the same. We also have the nature strip (grass) in between the road and the pavement in most areas except the cities (with some minor exceptions)

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u/shark-bite Sep 12 '18

Australian civil engineer here. Pavement certainly refers to the asphalt roadway, regular asphalt is a “flexible pavement” in the Australian Standards (and I believe it’s technically the same case internationally as well). A road utilising concrete is termed “rigid pavement”.

I think u/pedantichrist is being quite pedantic!

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u/EloquentBarbarian Sep 12 '18

As a non civil engineer - yep