in straight line

In “Straight Line Crazy,” David Hare’s clear-eyed character study of the automobile-worshiping brute force who claimed every public right of way for his personal mission, Fiennes is majestically vile.

But in “Straight Line Crazy,” the connection is unclear, forcing you to ask why such a progressive playwright would spend even half a play valorizing a man who, among many other practical atrocities, displaced 7,000 families to clear space for Lincoln Center and 40,000 residents to build the Cross-Bronx Expressway.

This raises a wider question about why you need steering at all, if you're only driving in straight line?

Since you’re fixing your eyes on a single point over and over and over again, you are able to fool your brain into thinking you’re moving in straight line rather than in a bunch of tight circles, and it thus takes a lot longer for a dancer to become dizzy while turning than you might expect.

The distance from Troy to Lake George is in straight line about fifty miles.