I’ve seen them called “Stop Lines”, “Balk Line”, etc. The thick line painted on the road at a Stop Sign.
You’re supposed to stop before the line, but a lot of the time there’s a bush or other obstruction so you can’t see any crossing traffic. You have to creep forward until you can see anything.
Is there a reason for this? Is it done on purpose? It makes sense if there’s a crosswalk or something, but I see it a lot where there shouldn’t be any pedestrian activity.
Because each state has different regulations for what’s acceptable for road design, and a lot of them are lousy.
My favorite trend is the “right turn on ramp” where you’re angled in such a way that you can’t turn your head far enough to see oncoming traffic, and you can’t see it in your rear view mirrors either. And if you are sideswiped or rear ended, you’re going to break your neck from straining to see if the coast is clear.
If you can’t turn your head far enough to see the blind spot not covered by your mirrors, you should not be driving.
I think he’s explaining Florida merges where the oncoming ramp is about 35 degrees from the HWY, where turning up and back is too far and the rear view mirror will show you the ramp, not oncoming traffic until you’re in a 100ft merge lane.
Oh you mean a vertical angle? Like you can’t see the traffic because it’s occluded by the ground between on-ramp and travel lane?
Yes, that’s one issue. The other is a merging lane entering a HWY is not parallel to the HWY Making rear view mirrors look at the road behind and not at the HWY where one’s merging
Can you link to a satellite view or diagram of what you’re talking about? The description sounds strange.
Around me in these situations there’s usually a lane dedicated to the merging traffic. So like turning right onto a ramp to get on the interstate, you stay in your lane without risk of getting sideswiped, then once you’re up to speed it merges with the interstate traffic. Is that not the case for you?
We have some of those, but that’s not what I’m referring to. We also have these right turn lanes that curve off at the intersection, but don’t have a parallel ramp to get up to speed. They just throw you into oncoming traffic. It’s dumb.
Your mirrors are set wrong then.
No there’s literally no angle you can set your mirrors and still see. And if you find an angle you can see at that mirror will be useless 99% of the time you’re driving
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15131074/how-to-adjust-your-mirrors-to-avoid-blind-spots/
This is how I have my mirrors, but my wife likes to see the side of her vehicle which for some reason is how it was taught when I was a kid.
She doesn’t believe that I can watch a car approach in the rear view, see it transition to the side and there’s a point I can see it in both at the same time, then transition to seeing it in my peripheral vision and the side mirror.
Something like 90% of people don’t realize they have their mirrors positioned incorrectly.