The interchange is officially named in the memory of California Highway Patrol officer Bruce T. Hinman, who was killed by a drunk driver.

[1] Motorists, especially visitors and newcomers to the Los Angeles area, find the interchange confusing for a number of reasons.

Throughout the San Fernando Valley, the same onramp may be signed as both 101 North and 101 West or 101 South/101 East.

For motorists entering the interchange, the freeways' acute intersecting angles limits their ability to exit in certain directions of travel due to missing ramps.

Hinman was a motorcycle officer with the California Highway Patrol who was killed by a drunk driver while assisting a stranded motorist at the interchange in 1995.