ARE THESE ROADS CONVERGING?

You may recall our discussion of the debate in 2015 over whether a dress was gold and white or black and blue.  Now a new picture has appeared on Imgur and Reddit that forces us to address optical illusions. So here is your brain teaser:  Is this the same picture or different pictures of two roads converging?

As one Reddit user deduced, the images are in fact the same.

“I took the photo and edited the dual image into two parts.  Now look at the pictures stacked:”