Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It's a "close your eyes, pray and hit the gas" type of place.
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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"?
My money is on "the french love roundabouts so we're not doing that"
No one will ever be able to invade the UK, they'll get stuck in this horror.
It's really five regular roundabouts circling one central roundabout.
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...
Ah yes, car E driven by Leeeerrroooooyyyy Jenkins
Watching the shadow of the car, it takes out the top of a tree
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
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.
C is yielding to a pedestrian, but carbrain D cannot fathom yielding to anything smaller than their car.
Were this a 2 lane roundabout, car d would be changing lanes to bypass car c, nearly striking that pedestrian
I hate getting stuck behind the "I won't move until there are no cars anywhere on the planet" drivers.
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.
You’re all driving around it in the wrong direction.
When you can't see over the middle circle, I'm also approaching roundabouts very slowly because some morons tend to play Tokyo drift. And blinking is anyway not a thing here :(
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.
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
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.
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.
When I have a Car D behind me, it's because they overestimate my car's acceleration capabilities.
Alternative scenario: C starts entering, A decides to FUCKING FLOOR IT, slams into C
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.
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.
They also change the angle of impacts to be less severe since they should effectively eliminate a t-bone type impact.
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.
Car C is really just waiting for the pink car to arrive so that they can slam the gas as soon as it does.
C may be right to yield depending on where pink and yellow are going and the speed they're doing.
Ive had the 'pink' car stop in the roundabout and motion, me as the 'A' car, to go. Like i dont even anymore.
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.