Why keep 2 chevrons apart on motorways?

You could save paint by halving the number of chevrons and keep one
chevron apart.

 

You should keep two chevrons apart as if they get together they will
fight or mate, and you don't want that happening on the motorway.

 

I've never seen two chevrons together. They're usually miles apart,
interspersed with Shell, BP, Tesco, etc.
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Dave
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"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Are they sponsored by Citroen?

 

Or hang the expense and have four chevrons ... the beginnings of a
parteee ...

 

<takes it all too seriously>

Are you trying to be funny, or just stupid?
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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Well I thought it was amusing - ditto the responses to date.

 

Funny was the intention, although if there was a sensible answer I'd
like to hear it.

 

Err, how do you keep one chevron apart then?

 

The sensible answer is that you don't keep two chevrons apart, you
keep one 'gap between chevrons' apart, and it takes two chevrons to
define the gap.

hth
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Champ

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My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
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I don't think it's that simple. I suspect we are already expected to
interpret "please keep 2 chevrons apart" as "please keep 2 times the
gap between a pair of chevrons apart".

That is unless the motorway men wan't me to drive a whole lot closer
than the two second rule at 70 dictates - in which case they must be
fools.

If this is correct, which it might not be and I might just be over
cautious, "please keep 1 chevron" at least makes some sense.

Darren

 

It's a zen thing

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, MikeH

Once you've mastered that, you'll recognize the sound of one car
colliding.

 

Replace it with a loooooong chevron.

 

I think your definition gives the same specified minium distance as
mine (at least in principle, since yours is defined in terms of what
the driver can actually see - because the driver's view of a chevron
immediately in front of his car is obscured by his bonnet, in practice
he will need to be slightly further away than twice the gap bewteen
chevrons with your definition).

I also stand my ground about one chevron - your definition would still
makes sense if the chevrons were twice as far apart and we were told
to keep one chevron apart - the "without modifying your distance" and
"always see at least one" means the driver will need to remain at
least the gap between a pair of chevrons apart to make sure he can
always see one.

christ, I'm dull.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, daz

Never mind all that. Is it me, or have you been AWOL for a while?

How the devil are you?

 

eh? But that would mean you could see 3 chevrons.

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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

If your car was see through and you were exactly on top of one, you
could see three chevrons for an instant, but normally you would only
see two....

-->----->----->--C-->----->--C-->----->----

C = car (pair of, separated by ten ASCII (ignoring thickness of
chevrons) = two times gap between pairs chevrons)

 

But your diagram assumes that drivers will add on and extra amount of
half the distance between chevrons. Why would anyone do this? When I
drive such that I can see 2 chevrons, it's more like this:

-->----->----C>----->C----->----->---

Which means I see two chevrons every so often

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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

I think you're right that your diagram matches (at least every so
often!) the need to be two chevrons apart, and this is why the sign
wording is not clear as I think what the motorway enginerers really
want the distance to be is...

-->----->----C>----->-----C>----->---

which a moment later will appear as in my original sketch with the
extra half gaps. Of course the real situation is

driving lane 1 = CCCCC>CCCCC>CCCCC>CCCCC>CCCCC>
- - M- - - - - - - M - - -
- - - -
driving lane 2 = CCCCC>CCCCC>CCCCC>CCCCC>CCCCC>

where M = fast moving motorbike

Darren

PS WUN - I suspect my common name that has caused you to confuse me
with someone else