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Multi-car Sun-shade

protects areas with bad visibility in early morning or evening commutes
 
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Every morning when driving to work there is this one spot on the highway where the sun is just peaking over the horizon, blinding everyone and causing even more congestion then there usually is, after the road takes a turn to the right everything is better and traffic picks up. Why not construct a series of tracks, similar to garage door tracks, over the highway that during the problem time of day a shade is automatically pulled over the tracks. These tracks would be in succession, one after another, for only about 800-1000ft over the problem area. It could be funded by corporate advertisements, a private group with fun ‘inspirational’ messages, or the transportation authority with messages like buckle-up. The shade would be a lightweight material, probably some kind of banner like that used on billboards, disposable, interchangeable, and pulled over the highway with some kind of electric motor/pully system. It could be meshed so as not to collect water, or just not pulled over the highway on rainy days, since if it’s overcast and raining the sun isn’t a problem anyways.
jpelectron, Apr 30 2004

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       Leave earlier.
waugsqueke, Apr 30 2004
  

       If the sun is just peeking over the horizon, why not just have a sunshade/billboard/wall at the end of the problematic section of highway, instead of over the top of the highway?
benjamin, May 01 2004
  

       Or permanent, vertical slats like a great, horizontal Venetian blind over the road segment.
FarmerJohn, May 01 2004
  

       Thus relabeling certain problem areas as blind curves?
half, May 01 2004
  

       Plant trees...?
DrCurry, May 01 2004
  

       Leave later.
half, May 01 2004
  
      
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