Rumble Strips Are Wrong

[[57th] AngryHatter]

They are 1 1/2 inch bumps that literally shake the steering wheel.
They also have yellow reflectors on them to be differentiated from the white lines.

Also they are at both ands of each stripe so you are aware when you start drifting into another lane.

[margalus]

They aren't anything like you describe anywhere around where I live in the US.

[tommwill]

Originally posted by margalus:

They aren't anything like you describe anywhere around where I live in the US.

Sounds like what he/she is discribing are the reflectors that some states use so you can se the lanes when some weather conditions make seeing the lines almost impossible. (some rainy nights for example) The rumble strips are on the outside of the highway to let you know your running off if you doze off etc.

[[57th] AngryHatter]

Originally posted by margalus:

They aren't anything like you describe anywhere around where I live in the US.

I live in California and was "driving" in California. My neck of the woods.

[[57th] AngryHatter]

Originally posted by tommwill:

Originally posted by margalus:

They aren't anything like you describe anywhere around where I live in the US.

Sounds like what he/she is discribing are the reflectors that some states use so you can se the lanes when some weather conditions make seeing the lines almost impossible. (some rainy nights for example) The rumble strips are on the outside of the highway to let you know your running off if you doze off etc.

Not in California - those are rumble strips. There are no other .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlG_u6H9eM

[jnol8]

https://imgur.com/fc4493d5-15d5-4d13-b6f4-8ed9bab94224

I'm in Californai and here's what the rumble strips look like where I'm at. There's no reflectors on them but they are pretty small.

[[57th] AngryHatter]

Zoinks! You've taken a wrong turn.

[margalus]

Originally posted by 57th Zatoichi:

Originally posted by tommwill:

Sounds like what he/she is discribing are the reflectors that some states use so you can se the lanes when some weather conditions make seeing the lines almost impossible. (some rainy nights for example) The rumble strips are on the outside of the highway to let you know your running off if you doze off etc.

Not in California - those are rumble strips. There are no other .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlG_u6H9eM

Sorry, but I cannot see what you describe in that video either.

[[57th] AngryHatter]

Look at the still picture before the video starts. The small trapezoidal bumps that are both in the yellow stripes and the white lane markers.

[Goose_Few]

In some places, the things that the OP refers to are called cat-eyes. Small bumps sometimes with reflective stripes on it.

Different fron the rumble strips, that are emboss on the road side.

[Twelvefield]

Cat Eyes are more European, it's a sturdy metal bracket with a glass "eye" or two embedded deep within that reflects headlights off of an internally mounted mirror, a pretty clever design. You see brackets like this in North America, but usually without the reflector since they are used on roads that get snow-ploughed a lot.

Stimsonite makes the markers Californians (and those who drive in the southern states) are familiar with. These are trapezoidal Raised Pavement Markers (RPMs) normally covered with coloured relective plastic. The farther north you go, the more likely you'll see non-reflective metal RPMs that can stand being ploughed, or even bits of stand-up reflective tape.

Since states and provinces all have their own budgets and standards, you see a variety of RPMs, including the old Bott's Dots.

[Rookie-31st]

Rumble strips are made of holes, not bumps

[spidey7312]

Originally posted by rookie31st:

Rumble strips are made of holes, not bumps

+1
I've never seen rumble strips that aren't in the form of indentations in the pavement. Here in Ohio where I live they are generally only placed on the shoulder lane.

[TwinShadow]

In my neck of the woods of Texas, anywhere with rumble strips are just after the white line that marks the beginning of the shoulder.

[Long Ago [Linux]]

I have noticed the sound of the rumble strips on the side of the road, but have not noticed any thumpers on lane dividers. I do remember seeing somewhere in real California some big huge round bumps with reflectors between lanes, but I think they were in city areas, not highways or expressways. Force feedback does not seem to work for my G29 wheel in Linux in ATS yet (works in other games), so I would not feel them if I did hit them.

The factory of the company I worked for is in Costa Mesa and I occasionally visit someone I know in Huntington Beach (Orange County area). But I live in Illinois where any lane divider thumpers epoxied into the pavement are a trapezoid cross section (so snow plows go over them) to protect the reflector insert.

[TW]

He's maybe talking about the cateyes reflector in the road. Some states have them and some don't. Rumble strips are at the side of the road. They are there to help make the driver aware he or she is not on the road way.