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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And what kind of pedestrian crossing looks like that?

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And why is there one in the middle of nowhere

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago

I do believe I used to watch a documentary about a Coyote in the desert, and quite a bit of that involved it on a paved road as well. I do believe it understood more complicated things than just pressing crosswalk buttons, if I recall it flat out knew how to place orders from an Acme Catalog an assemble quite a few fairly complex machines.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

As someone who lived in the Mojave desert for nearly a decade, that part isn't that weird. Double yellow and weird spacing in the crosswalk are pretty obvious but a crosswalk that appears to be in the middle of nowhere is quite standard where I was at.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

That was explained well by the post. It allegedly led to a trailhead. I see these types of crosswalks near trails often.

Still AI, but the story checked out