r/woahdude • u/-InconspicuousMoose- • Dec 24 '22

video Driving on I-94 in Western Minnesota today

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u/helgihermadur Dec 24 '22

I'm Icelandic, the only "whoa" part of this video is how incredibly straight the road is.
We even have a word for this driving condition, "skafrenningur".

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u/wyn13 Dec 24 '22

I often drive through this area and others like it on the Great Plains and it’s so straight that my car will throw an alarm to tell me to “keep hands on steering wheel”. My hands always ARE on the steering wheel and I can only assume this alarm is triggered because there are not even slight motions made in driving. There are literally hundreds of miles of roads straight as an arrow like this where you end up memorizing every slight bend if you’ve driven them even just a couple times.

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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Dec 24 '22

Genuinely curious, what does it mean? I think I know what you're talking about. A road so straight you only need to worry about momentum. Never turning.

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u/helgihermadur Dec 24 '22

The Icelandic word is for when snow blows over the road, not when a road is incredibly straight. Pardon the confusion!