2006-09-23 01:27:50 · 9 answers · asked by Bear 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
I don't think you should find cats'-eyes in the middle of motorway lanes. Cats'-eyes mark the edges of motorway lanes
The markings are gradation lines for the police to use to catch you speeding. They are measured distances so they can do a time/distance calculation to assess your average speed.
2006-09-23 01:35:00 · answer #1 · answered by Phish 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
White dots? Lines on the motorway/duel carriageway are pure and simply lane markings. Nothing to do with speed cops at all. Perhaps my friend you should read the Highway Code. (Methinks everyone should read the Highway Code from time to time - how many of you have NEVER seen the book since you "passed " your test?)
2006-09-26 03:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by admiralsmurf 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You say 'white dots.' I'm presuming this must be the cats eyes. They reflect your car's headlights at night so you can easily see the lanes.
At the left side of the lanes are red cats eyes and indicate the edge of the carriageway/hard shoulder. It shows you where you shouldn't drive, except in an emergency.
At an entry or exit slip road, they are green to signify this.
Orange cats eyes are seen t the right of the carriageway.
Older style cats eyes are self cleaning as you drive over them. As you drive over them, the reflector goes into its housing and a rubber strip cleans them. Newer style cats eyes do not have this function, but have a larger reflective area.
They became widespread during WWII during the black outs as street lights were turned off.
2006-09-23 03:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by ben 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it depends which lane your in,if you use the motorway banking you wont see any and they wont upset you,Sorry just couldn't resist answering like that,Although it does pose the question of who taut you to drive and where.
2006-09-23 02:15:34 · answer #4 · answered by Francis7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cats eye's? or the long lines? the lines are for people to know which lane they should be in or if there wasnt line's there then people would be crashing into each other no wouldnt they =D
2006-09-23 01:31:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Police can time how long it takes you to go from one to the next and then work out your average speed.
2006-09-23 01:32:55 · answer #6 · answered by Boz 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they are called cats eyes, and they are there for you to see in the dark. they reflect in your headlights so you can see the white lane lines.
2006-09-23 01:31:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they are for the police they can track the speed you are going if they have a camera fixed on each and they snap you go past one then by the time you reach another that way they can tell wat speed you where doing
beware
2006-09-23 01:31:09 · answer #8 · answered by mothertiggy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They reflect light when you drive at night.....
2006-09-23 01:50:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋