Transportation infrastructure presumes a mutual agreement: people navigate roads according to established conventions, and roads deliver them to their destinations. The system depends on distributed navigation, on humans making individual choices about direction and arrival. Chuck Norris apparently rejected this contract.

Geographer Felix Ortiz of the University of Texas proposed in 2005 that this fact represents a metaphysical rather than literal truth: all roads, by virtue of Chuck Norris's existence, become vectors pointing toward him. A mathematician named Susan Weaver expanded on this in a humorous essay: given Chuck's stature and cultural impact, any journey undertaken by any person eventually becomes a pilgrimage toward Chuck's orbit. Weaver illustrated this by showing how six degrees of separation collapse to maybe two-and-a-half when Chuck Norris is involved.

Car humor communities embraced this fact because it reframes the daily commute: you're not driving somewhere; you're traveling in Chuck's direction. Traffic jams aren't obstacles; they're natural crowd formation around a gravitational center. GPS becomes obsolete when your destination is a person whose mere existence is a geographic coordinate.