The Eshima Ohashi bridge is catching renewed attention due
to eye-popping photos that show it resembling a vertical Slip n' Slide for cars
while with an unusual kink in its middle. The bridge is a two-lane concrete
road bridge that connects the city of Matsue in Shimane Prefecture to
Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture, in Japan. The bridge total length is 1.7 kilometer,
and a width of 11.3 meters, it is the largest rigid frame bridge in Japan and
the third largest in the world. That's credited toward its need to let ships to
pass underneath it with ease.
In the recent times, the bridge has received exceptional
attention since it was used in a TV commercial for Daihatsu Motor Co.'s Tanto
minivan. The commercial shows the bridge from an angle that inflates the slope
of the bridge’s approach. The view compression by a telephoto lens makes the
viewer accept as true that the bridge is extremely steep. Daihatsu Motor wants
you to be certain of that the bridge is terrifyingly steep because it wants to
show off its car's strength. Actually, the bridge has a pretty comfortable
gradient of 6.1% on Shimane Prefecture side and 5.1% on Tottori Prefecture
side, nothing an average car can’t handle. Several websites showing that
driving over the bridge is “like a roller-coaster ride” which is all media
hyperbole. Fortunately for it drivers particularly during bad weather or brake
failure it looks can be deceiving.
UNREAL! Roller Coaster-like Bridge In Japan... by roletadasanedotas
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