Bretagne roads

Bretagne roads
After living in the administrative region of Brittany for 26 years I have still yet to discover definitively why rural roads in this wonderful region are commonly around one and a half metres lower than the surrounding land.

I posed the question, succinctly and lucidly ten times, each time with minor text variations and aimed at various AI platforms.

Answers came in astonishingly quickly. Within seconds. Every one so ludicrously wrong and so wide of the mark as to be beyond laughable.

A couple mistakenly wandered off on a tangent confusing Brittany with Great Britain. A couple more offered a detailed description of the materials used for road construction. Providing an answer to a question I didn't ask. Worryingly also totally incorrect as well.

One answer explained that rural roads in Brittany had surfaces elevated above the level of surrounding fields so as to provide rapid run off for rain water. The complete opposite of my simple question. Nowhere in Brittany have I ever seen a road with a surface higher than the land it is built over, other than tidal causeways.

I have my own theories and one gained favour amongst some of our dear farming community. Dropping the road surface by a metre and a half and sometimes even more was an economic, more permanent and reliable method of droving cattle, pigs and sheep to market than guiding or restraining them using fencing. Others postulated that it might have something to do with diverting water or drainage but could not explain how that would work. The funniest was that it helped the original builders hide from marauding Romans. As many of these roads were built by Romans that argument didn't hold much water either. Do you know the answer? Feedback

One benefit from my excursion into the realms of digital stupidity is that teachers cannot be blamed for the now plummeting education levels. Kids and students using AI to do their homework and case studies must bounce off the page when their tutors read them.

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Bringing benefits of computerisation to our RAC industry - without the commonly associated problems.

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