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Originally Posted by Wayne 962
Here is the first photo showing the gentle bend that is at this part of the road:
As we get a little closer, we see that the road has a median that gets narrower for no apparent reason. As far as I know, this is not a spot where anyone would make a u-turn, nor are these dividers setup or properly designed to facilitate a u-turn. Perhaps these are leftover from years ago where this road was purposed for something else? Just look at how the road edge narrows, and sends a visual cue to your brain to follow along. Tiger visually followed the edge of the road here and presumably slammed into the median directly in front of him.
Here's a view looking back at the median. You'd see this as you drove by if you were sitting in the back seat on the left side of the car and looked back towards the rear of the car. See how the median narrows down to nothing. Bad, bad visual cues.
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In this first photo above, if one is in the left lane (don't know if Woods was but it seems you are assuming that at this point), you really can't even see the way the median narrows up.
You talk about the visual cue, but a smart driver should be focused on the visual cue of the far side of the break in the median where it is more than obvious where you need to keep your vehicle.
You can see the narrowing in the second photo, but
by this time your attention should not be focused on anything but the left lane ahead. Only a little old grandma going 20 MPH and looking at the road 30 feet in front of her car would be confused by the narrowing of the median.
BTW, I would guess that the narrowing is designed to handle a situation that would occur during a heavy downpour. By narrowing, it would lead rainwater away from the edge of the road surface and along the curb and into that storm drain.
The narrowing of the median on the oncoming lane (in combination with the downhill lane) could be to allow police or emergency vehicles to pull into that area more easily to park without blocking traffic. If that manhole next to the storm drain needs to be accessed from time to time, a water works truck could be there without blocking traffic also.
Can we get Vash on this?
