To wind down the weekend, BTKM located a video from Golden Earring. The perennial classic is Radar Love. Turns out Dan Neil of the L.A. Times covered this topic earlier in the week:

HIGHWAY stripes are 10 feet long and 30 feet apart. That means one stripe every 40 feet. No one really knows how this fundamental increment of civil engineering came to be. Well, I say no one knows — I’m sure somebody knows, but that person works in the historical division of the federal Department of Transportation.

There are some wondrous synchronisms hidden in that white-stripe measure. At 55 mph, for instance, a car is traveling 80.66 feet per second, which means that two white stripes slip by every second. This tempo — 120 “beats” per minute — syncs up almost exactly with what is widely regarded as the best driving song ever, “Radar Love” by Golden Earring.

Fair enough, Dan. To get a feel for what he’s talking about, check out the video:

Enjoy!

Source: http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-hy-neil2may02,0,3863527.story?track=rss

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