Context would help. General location (state, country, etc)? What kind of road? Were you near any other car infrastructure? Are the directionals pointing at anything informative?
I suspect the box facing down is some kind of short range antenna. Like for reading toll passes kind of thing, though I doubt this is that. The directionals first reminded me of like IR sensors for like emergency vehicle signalling, but you'd normally see that on a traffic light.
Oooh this setup just got installed on a highway in my town, I've been wondering what it was since it was installed just past one of the vehicle counting strips they use
it was on a street light after an intersection, in California. from the comments it would make sense to be for traffic control. My original thought was a gunshot detector since I remember hearing they installed them in the city but doesnt seem that this is it
Seeing the tires on the downside I thought maybe it was blowouts but I think they just scraped against the trailer as it went over. All the drive tires look brand new.
When you're going around corners remember your physics.
I remember the truck driver at a previous place I worked at told me this happened to him once because the people that loaded his trailer didn't strap anything down so when he went onto an off ramp everything shifted and tipped him over
There's one of these (without the red eyes) placed very carefully in a yard I have to pass in the evenings occasionally. The shadows of the trees seem to change the outline, theatrically effective at making innocent motorists shit a brick. Thanks, I hate it.
As a young and naive teenager I hitchhiked from Enschede to Breda in the Netherlands.
At one point I was dropped off at the flyover intersection between two freeways in the middle of nowhere - inasmuch as that is actually possible in the Netherlands.
I stood there with my thumb up for quite a while and looking around me considered just how much humanity had interfered and interacted with the landscape, roads, lights, fences, dikes, pastures, crops, all around as far as the eye could see.
In stark contrast, I now live in Australia and you can drive between where I live in Perth and an inland city, Kalgoorlie, about 600 km away. Pull over on the side of the road between towns and walk 50m off the road and there's a good chance that you're the first person to stand there in a century, if not a millennium or ever.
Do it! Unless you have kids, don't stop, don't second guess, don't think of any of the reasons you shouldn't, just get. in. the. fucking. car. and. GO!
(a little tongue in cheek, perhaps, but it's a massive country that's more than a little wild, and too many people don't explore it like they should. Seriously, go for an adventure at the first opportunity - life's short).
There is a lake on Victoria Island in the arctic archipelago that I am reasonably sure has never been seen by a real person, and it is unnamed. Furthermore, the lake has a small island on it. One of my life's goals is to see this lake and island someday.
There’s a ton of lakes in Nunavut that have no names, and a lot have islands, but I imagine you’re talking about this one which is unique in that it has a lake on the island. Which is in a lake. Which is on an island (Victoria island).
I’m not impossible that someone had been there though, it’s only about 200km from Cambridge Bay, and that terrain is actually quite flat and easy to travel over. They also travel all over Victoria island all the time hunting, lots of times very long distance, so it’s entirely possible someone has gone there.
Pull over on the side of the road between towns and walk 50m off the road and there's a good chance that you're the first person to stand there in a century, if not a millennium or ever.
You don't understand how long a century / millennium is. People pull off the road to pee all the time, plus people were obviously there when the road was built. Add in hikers and stranded motorists and I bet every piece of ground near that highway has had a person step on it (except for something on the side of a mountain or something).
Anyone who’s ever driven through Western Australia would absolutely agree with you. That whole state is like another planet dotted with a few towns here and there. WA is literally the size of one-third of the entire contiguous United States and has the population of <1% of the contiguous United States - it’s mostly barren desert and beautiful coastline.
When cars encounter predators they cannot outrun in the wild, they sometimes shed a tire and maybe an axle to distract their enemy. Don't worry, I believe they grow back in time.
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