Broke: Car C is being a responsible, safety focused driver
Woke: Car C is holding up traffic for no good reason
Bespoke: Car Pink is whipping around that turn at 80 kmph and going to kill everyone anyone, so don’t sweet it.
Just go right over the center and see if you can clear C and D.
Car C is really just waiting for the pink car to arrive so that they can slam the gas as soon as it does.
Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It’s a “close your eyes, pray and hit the gas” type of place.
Then you see the cars completely ignoring the sub-circles and driving over them or backwards to the arrows.
It’s really five regular roundabouts circling one central roundabout.
No one will ever be able to invade the UK, they’ll get stuck in this horror.
People will unironically see this and proclaim that it’s actually not that complicated…
Holy hell
I drove through that one, not easy. I prefer the turbine design we use in Germany.
Left side driving should be illegal
It is in the most places on earth.
Good.
I knew a girl who was instructed to turn left at a roundabout, so she proceeded to turn left when merging into the roundabout.
Poor girl, fortunately everything was fine (she did fail, but no accidents) but that’s a special kind of ‘too literal’ that loops back around to being dumb.
And that’s why turn-by-turn navigation systems phrase it as “take the third exit from the roundabout” these days.
The lion does not concern himself with car C. Car D should plough straight through them.
The hard part is when back to back traffic for 15 miles worth of cars is coming from one direction and everyone else is either too scared to zipper merge or they allow the one direction to have perpetual right of way.
At some point of heavy traffic, the circle right of way must yield for zipper merging, else face my ass aggro merging and beeping at everyone who doesn’t.
Replace the pink car with a bicycle an A is suddenly not being in the mood to yield anymore.
I was going straight once and had to go back in and do a full turn (180° + 360°) because of that.
I’m a daily cyclist and I think I’d be terrified to bike through a full roundabout. They’re absolutely marvelous designs for throughput that doesn’t require complex signal automation, but the flip side of that is they’re pretty hostile if you’re not a motor vehicle. Any truly good roundabout design should include pedestrian and cycle paths along the periphery that have priority when crossing the circles entrances.
All cars will yield to a bicycle in the UK, because less protected members of the road traffic always take priority.
All cars should yield.
When I used to cycle, I’d just go on the pavements at large roundabouts. Not much point in being right but dead.
I personally never had any issues. British drivers are very polite and cautious.
Welp, I’m not in the UK.
Over here, people go with - what is the most threatening to themselves - and it really feels weird that people who have presumably passed the driving exam are worse at roundabouts than me.
Turnabout fucking sucks.
Way more go wrong than lights, increase car to car interactions massively, inappropriate european fad. This for place that don’t mind getting bog down doing more than an hour to get 50km away because they don’t have important things to do
Traffic circles are safer, reduce maintenance costs, slows the fucking speeders and more efficient than your fucking stop sign and signal intersections.
Mfs don’t even stop at stop signs anymore, they just slowly crawl and go. It’s like the overuse of the stop signs made them into a fancy yeild sign.
I’ll just put this here so people can actually get som real info and not the nonsense you are spewing.
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Better than 4-way stop signs, fuck that noise.
Useful, but incomplete.
Those small green pissing pyramids are blocking the road.
As the circle enlarges, the system approaches four T-intersections. What I want to know is: at what size circle to people lose their minds and become unable to comprehend how T-intersections work.
Fair play to people confused about multi-lane roundabouts though.
When I have a Car D behind me, it’s because they overestimate my car’s acceleration capabilities.
F. The more fundamental problem is that these are all cars, not bikes. Fuck cars.
Right, that’s the funny thing about roundabouts. They’re a marvelous solution to local motor vehicle throughput. That become completely unnecessary if your traffic is anything besides motor vehicles. In fact, for bikes and pedestrians and anyone else who can look at each other eye to eye and even just talk to one another if need be, no signals or signs are necessary at all.
Well yes, but actually bikes wouldn’t even need a roundabout with rules like this in the first place.
I’m waiting til it becomes normal for individuals to use old school buses as their commuter vehicles. It’s the inevitable destination of the car size war.
I’m always the pink car but get cut off by car A who decides to gun it soon as I’m right where pink car is
ITT: People road raging over imaginary traffic.
Drivers seem to love complaining about drivers
