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Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

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154 points jason_pomerleau | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 01:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jedberg ◴[03 Jul 25 03:08 UTC] No.44451274[source]▶
Intersting! I know that in the contiguous USA, you will never be more than 20 miles from a road no matter where you are, but have no idea how far one can drive from a town.
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moralestapia ◴[03 Jul 25 03:46 UTC] No.44451459[source]▶
So if you're ever lost, you just walk?

(Assuming nothing kills you in nature)

Edit: Wait, no. You could be extremely unlucky and be walking parallel to the closest road, lol.

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bravesoul2 ◴[03 Jul 25 04:03 UTC] No.44451524{3}[source]▶
Nerd snipe: given a compass and dropped in a random location what is the best strategy (based on direction assuming no clues from terrain) of finding a road. E.g. strategy might be 1000 steps south then 1000 east, repeat.

Nerd snipe 2. Same without a compass or any sense of direction. Assume you can accurately make a 90 degree turn and count steps

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1. madaxe_again ◴[03 Jul 25 20:51 UTC] No.44459071{4}[source]▶
Specific to the U.S., assuming no terrain clues - go NW, SE, SW, or NE, as most roads in the U.S. go N, S, E or W - mitigates the possibility of parallel tracking.

The latter - pick a direction, walk in a straight line.