Which came first, the yellow or the white? To answer this existential question, we must also deal with a more transgressional one: Why did the driver cross the center of the road? As late as 1917, pavements on rural highways were unadorned with lines or stripes of any kind. It was supposed to be understood that an automobile was to hug the right side of the road when encountering another coming the other way.
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