Re:Tesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful
by vl on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:10PM
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US is surprisingly bad at this though: in Germany, you get on Autobahn and you know the lane you are in is going to go forever. In US you get on a highway, get to the leftmost lane, it gets to the city, you driver straight and suddenly find yourself in the exit lane on the right? Who designs highways this way?!?!
Re:Tesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful
by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:19PM
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> This suggests a trivia question, which I do not know the answer to: what lane in the US goes the farthest without a split or dead-end? Similar question for other countries.
I-80 starts in San Francisco and ends in New York City, but I'm certain there are splits that would make you change to some other highway if you stayed in the left lane.
Likewise, I-90 starts in Seattle and ends in Boston and travels through Montana.
My guess would be I-90, just because of Montana.
This suggests a trivia question, which I do not know the answer to: what lane in the US goes the farthest without a split or dead-end? Similar question for other countries.
I'd count most freeway exit ramps as splits from the adjacent lane, but would not count intersections with cross streets as splits unless the two roads intersect at a small angle. It is the actual lane that matters, not its name, so if a lane has a name change when it crosses some political boundary it still counts as the same line.
My first guess would be it is on some long freeway like I-10. My second guess would be it is on some rural road through the middle of nowhere.