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From: Self-explaining roads: What does visual cognition tell us about designing safer roads?

Fig. 2

Examples of roads in the Netherlands that are difficult to categorize. On the left is a picture of a motorway/freeway (A44) without crossing traffic, with no slow moving vehicles, and expected speeds of 100 km/h (daytime) and 120 km/h (nighttime); while on the right is an expressway (N11) where traffic lights, traffic that is crossing (including bicyclists) and stopped vehicles can be expected while the maximum speed is 100 km/h. Because the roads look similar people categorize them as being the same, and will behave the same even though officially these are different types of roads (see Theeuwes and Diks 1995)

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