Why do planes take off down the centre line?

[bitchstewie]

I feel I'm setting myself up to look stupid here but having watched a lot of cockpit videos on YouTube something that's always puzzled me is why takeoff seems to be exactly down the centre line so it looks from the cockpit vids like the airplane is getting quite a shaking from the front gear going over all the centre lights.

Seems a bit like deliberately driving down a row of cats eyes at high speed and the accompanying bumps unless the videos are exaggerating the effect?

[bitchstewie]

Thanks all.

Honestly when you watch some of the videos the sound of the bumps seems very audible to the point where if it was a car you'd try not to go over them.

If it's as simple as other than sounding a bit noisy they don't do any damage that's fair enough and perhaps I was overthinking it

[bitchstewie]

Not really worth a new thread but I think the little noise Jerry lets out at the start of the video kind of sums it up