I agree, and I think modern cars make that worse. They are so quiet and “easy” to drive that you can forget you’re hurtling two tons of steel through space at 100km/h.
Cars used to keep you a lot busier with clutches, wandering steering, sketchy drum brakes, etc. Prior to that they even had you tweaking spark advance, fuel mixture, etc as you drove. The driver had a lot to do and it kept you on your toes.
The only thing that this reaffirms is that Seattle has some of the worst drivers that I have been forced to deal with. Possibly the worst in the US.
Holy shit that is crazy. Why on earth don’t they change the signage?
I lived down at the bottom of a maybe 500ft L shaped road, with a hard right at the bottom, houses there and everything. Twice in the years I lived there, the guys with one of the houses at the bottom of the road ended up with a car in their front room. The fact that it was an area where noone should really be driving over 20Mph make it so much worse.
Here’s a thought – just hear me out – since the highway commission agrees with his work, which is better than what their current sign makers are doing, maybe they should…hire him?
Ship Canal Bridge. I do not enjoy driving over that because we’re about 50 years overdue for a big earthquake.
There was also the Alaskan Way Viaduct but they’ve torn that down and now we have a creepy tunnel that’s below sea level.
I see some homes around here in Austin that are in areas i suspect occasionally get people flying into their yards, these homes usually will place big heavy boulders/rocks on their property line. In more urban areas i would be inclined to ask the city to install bollards or something heavy duty
There’s a house two blocks down from me on the corner that had their entire front yard laid to waste by an errant automobile. I didn’t hear it but it must have made a hell of a noise. There was a 2’ high stone wall with three feet of decorative ironwork on top of that, spanning 4’ masonry posts. All that was a pile of twisted wreckage for a 15’ span around the corner of their lot. This is a quiet residential street with a speed limit of 25, several blocks from any major thoroughfare. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere, I guess.
There are sobering reminders of the energy in a moving car everywhere.
I saw the aftermath of a similar accident over a decade ago, the car cleared a 4ft electric box of some kind by the sidewalk. Accident must’ve been fatal because they had the area blocked with tarps.
@wazroth @anon87143080
Who’s keeping track of the bingo card? 
It could be the highway commission doesn’t want people slowing down or stopping on the freeway to thoughtfully contemplate the work of a known artist.
“The lines on this one really speak to me. . . they say ‘last exit to Pasadena.’”
The original video he made for this ‘installation’ really stuck in my mind.
Grew up in the bay area, got used to that (I went back and forth either across the bay bridge or the San Mateo bridge, traffic depending). Still hate the fort pitt merges with a passion (the top deck of the bridge has a similar issue, but it’s just a matter of going over two lanes… then two more lanes… then back over two more lanes.
If I had to guess, the Maze has a bit more distance and Californians are better at zipper merging (or at least recognizing it as a thing). The best thing about the fort pitt merge on the lower deck is that one of the on-ramps has a stop sign right before you merge onto the bridge. So you have four lanes of bridge traffic, one lane going onto the bridge that has to STOP literally 20 feet before merging, and then ANOTHER lane to the RIGHT of that one that does NOT have a stop sign. So if I’m coming from downtown I have to stop; merge with the on-ramp traffic coming from my right that does not have a stop sign, then immediately merge with the bridge traffic to my left.
There’s an 8-mile stretch of 270 in MD that had nothing especially tricksy on it, but the bullshit traffic activity over 3 years gave me anxiety attacks and finally a panic attack. Being trapped in asshole traffic had become a trigger for me.
Leaving Montgomery “a pucker moment per day” County has mostly restored my enjoyment of driving. Mostly.
Yah I wondered if zipper merging is what @GravityZone was describing. That’s super common in CA (especially SoCal) and people seem to be mostly very good at it. But when I encounter one elsewhere it’s always a shitshow because clearly the locals are not accustomed to them.
I have a dislike for driving, but being in most places in the US means you gotta drive. I used to get really intense anxiety driving, and thankfully that’s gotten way better but i still don’t enjoy it.
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