stackyFACTSYour brain is terrible at judging scale at sixty miles an hour. Those broken white lines dividing lanes look like they are maybe two feet long from your windshield. In reality, highway standards mandate they are a massive ten feet long. The optical illusion is simply speed-induced.
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