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[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I mean, nothing here is wrong but I have rarely had C being my primary issue when dealing with roundabouts. Idiots randomly entering the circle with no regard to other cars, THAT I've encountered quite frequently...

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Ah yes, car E driven by Leeeerrroooooyyyy Jenkins Leroy Jenkins

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Watching the shadow of the car, it takes out the top of a tree

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Biggest problem I encounter is people failing to signal their exit

So I end up being C because I yield to a bunch of bozos who didn’t communicate they were’t going to come my way

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That's because Americans don't know how to use them, once you live in a place where people use them OPs picture becomes your issue and you never see yours.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Americans have a hard time driving, period. They can’t “keep right unless passing”, they can’t understand 4-way stops, they can’t understand traffic circles, and so much more. So frustrating and dangerous here.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Or badly designed ones with a combo of yield and stop signs that effectively prevent the people with the stop sign from ever proceeding

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Not everybody is cut out to drive (i.e. to operate dangerous heavy machinery in a fast-changing environment with others depending on you handling the situation correctly). The problem is when we structure our societies requiring everyone to do so to participate.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

C is yielding to a pedestrian, but carbrain D cannot fathom yielding to anything smaller than their car.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

Were this a 2 lane roundabout, car d would be changing lanes to bypass car c, nearly striking that pedestrian

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

My favorite is when the pink car stops to allow car 'A' to go 🙃

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"if I randomly stop in the middle of the road so another car can get in, the car right behind me probably won't hit me"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I will take predictable drivers over ‘nice’ drivers any day.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Cyclist here.

Someone did that for me, so I tried to rush across the street to not hold up traffic.

Woke up a few weeks later in physical rehab, not remembering anything because of the TBI. Evidently I was in the hospital for about three weeks. No recollection!

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

I hate getting stuck behind the "I won't move until there are no cars anywhere on the planet" drivers.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You’re all driving around it in the wrong direction.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

But they are on the right side.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ITT: People road raging over imaginary traffic.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It's a "close your eyes, pray and hit the gas" type of place.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

No one will ever be able to invade the UK, they'll get stuck in this horror.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've seen this so often before and I still don't understand why they didn't just build an ordinary roundabout. It's just six roads that meet there. That's not beyond ordinary roundabout capabilities. Who said "you know what, let's just do a circular arrangement of five roundabouts here, that's so much better than what people are used to"?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's really five regular roundabouts circling one central roundabout.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

Then there is this cluster fuck of a roundabout in my city Lansing, MI. Yes they do have a full STOP sign at each entrance to the roundabout for the crosswalk not just a stop for pedestrians which would make more sense. So you have to stop then yield to circle traffic then go. The entire roundabout is useless because once you stop you lose the benefit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Roundabouts are not just for efficiency, they are for safety. A regular 4-way intersection introduces multiple conflicts between cars turning left and cars coming from the opposite direction.

A roundabout only has one conflict for each connecting street, and the right of way is clearly defined.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They also change the angle of impacts to be less severe since they should effectively eliminate a t-bone type impact.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I love roundabouts as a driver and as a pedestrian. I do admit that the double laned ones can feel like an utter cluster at times though

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

C may be right to yield depending on where pink and yellow are going and the speed they're doing.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Ive had the 'pink' car stop in the roundabout and motion, me as the 'A' car, to go. Like i dont even anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Alternative scenario: C starts entering, A decides to FUCKING FLOOR IT, slams into C

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

When I have a Car D behind me, it's because they overestimate my car's acceleration capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I remember almost hitting a cop in a roundabout somewhere in my city because they didn't follow the rules. It's a double-wide roundabout, where the outer ring must make the first right they come to and only the inner ring can continue forward or make a right. I needed to make a right from the inner lane, the cop was in the outer lane and DIDN'T TAKE THE EXIT, and I almost turned into the asshole, expecting him to turn like he was supposed to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

ACAB

All Circles Are Beyond-my-ability-to-comprehend - the cop probably

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As the circle enlarges, the system approaches four T-intersections. What I want to know is: at what size circle do people lose their minds and become unable to comprehend how T-intersections work.

Fair play to people confused about multi-lane roundabouts though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And that's why turn-by-turn navigation systems phrase it as "take the third exit from the roundabout" these days.

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