The city I live in hasn’t updated its lane designations in ages. There are numerous streets where there’s no visible line at all anymore, and you honestly can’t tell if there’s supposed to be one lane or two in a given a direction. Sometimes old lines are faded but still visible, while new lines were just lazily slapped alongside them. Then there are intersections where the lanes don’t match up with each other once you pass through - that is, you could be driving in the center lane, but if you continue going straight across the intersection, you’ll wind up in the left lane. The road shifts over without warning or guide lines on the street.
My car doesn’t have lane assist or departure warnings or any of those bells and whistles. I can’t imagine how much more difficult navigating here would be if it did.
Exactly: These things are crap because they assume an idealised system where the only time you’ll be crossing a line is while your turn signal is on. Reality is much more messy, and requires that you actually read the road and traffic conditions, rather than blindly trusting the lines, which is what these systems try to annoy you into doing.
The city I live in hasn’t updated its lane designations in ages. There are numerous streets where there’s no visible line at all anymore, and you honestly can’t tell if there’s supposed to be one lane or two in a given a direction. Sometimes old lines are faded but still visible, while new lines were just lazily slapped alongside them. Then there are intersections where the lanes don’t match up with each other once you pass through - that is, you could be driving in the center lane, but if you continue going straight across the intersection, you’ll wind up in the left lane. The road shifts over without warning or guide lines on the street.
My car doesn’t have lane assist or departure warnings or any of those bells and whistles. I can’t imagine how much more difficult navigating here would be if it did.
Exactly: These things are crap because they assume an idealised system where the only time you’ll be crossing a line is while your turn signal is on. Reality is much more messy, and requires that you actually read the road and traffic conditions, rather than blindly trusting the lines, which is what these systems try to annoy you into doing.