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They've started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.
Roundabouts are even better.
I didn't realize there was a difference
Laughs in Australian
Schaut mal, Kinder, Big Ben
are we talking about feet hours or meter hours?
Mr bean, is that you?
American here, I have no problem with them. There was a roundabout nearby in my city. When they unleashed it, the first driver brave enough to traverse it swerved off the road and died on the spot. It caused such a scene that the next 3 cars watching entered the wrong way and started to pile up. More cars piled up over the coming weeks, it couldn't be taped off because the city service workers were unfortunately not Europeans and also could not traverse the labyrinth, they too piled up and died of starvation. Eventually it collapsed into a singularity under its growing weight (Americans are fat, so it was over the Chandrasekhar limit), cars add into the eternal swirl each day and emanate slowly as Hawking radiation. It's quite beautiful to see.
I've taken a trip to see this infamous roundabout - it's quite pretty at night!
Interestingly they spin counterclockwise here, but clockwise in Australia.
How can one be too stupid to use a roundabout?
I’ve seen
Turning left without going around the center
Stopping to allow someone into the roundabout intended as a kind gesture and
My mom insisted that in her car I use the left turn signal if my roundabout exit is to the left of my entrance
I think using your left signal if you're leaving on the third exit of a four exit roundabout is actually standard practice in some countries. I saw people do this a lot in Norway for instance.
Oh? This is actually great news.
I’m a grownup who got a driving license late, but even after the practice and test I didn’t know the answer to how to signal out of a roundabout. So I looked it up.
In my home state, the law is: never use your left signal at a roundabout (unless switching to a left lane within a roundabout). So I assumed it was universal. Maybe not.
That's probably how it should be. Otherwise the only way the left signal is useful is if you see it right when the car enters. Otherwise you'll have no idea what exit it's meant to be for.
Unfortunately, it's a thing. I've had people try to merge onto the roundabout when I'm in it, and then honk at me when I didn't let them through. If any of these people ever do hit my car, I am not going to try to correct them ahead of time so that they perjurer themselves to the cop who eventually shows up to take the report.
Which I think speaks to the terrible level of driver training in America. A roundabout is a combination of things that you should already know about as a driver, like how yield signs work, and how to stay in your lane and follow lines on the road. If you can't put those thoughts together, then I question your ability to drive safely at all.
I don't think it's a matter of 'can't figure it out' as much as 'don't like change'. We've been putting roundabouts in my shithole state and the number of people who complain about them boggles the mind. They will successfully navigate them, but they'll whinge about it the whole time.
This happened to me just the other day as I was chauffeuring some good old boy around. Mind you he wasn't even driving, but still had to let it be known that he disapproved. There was no traffic so I barely had to slow down to navigate the intersection and his input was "I hate these things, they just slow you down!". I tried pointing out that if it had been a 4-way stop we would have had to stop, so it was actually faster this way. I don't know if he was immune to logic or just unwilling to admit that something that was different than what he was used to had a benefit, but he just repeated that he hated them, so I dropped the subject.
I don’t know if he was immune to logic or just unwilling to admit that something that was different than what he was used to had a benefit
You said they were a (presumably white) old American dude, so I would wager that it's all of the above.
Yeah, he was a cracker. Here's the thing though, in other ways he seems like a perfectly normal and decent human being.
We passed by an Amish produce stand and he had me stop. He got a bunch of fresh Veggies and then we stopped at a Chinese restaurant where he went inside and gave the lady working there a bunch of them. As we were leaving he even had a short conversation with her in Chinese. I'm sure it was very simple things like "Have a good one" and "Goodbye" or something similar, but I thought it was cool he had learned it. That kind of thing is pretty rare around here.
In the car he was telling me how they had recently lost one of their children in a car accident. It was heartbreaking. Sounds like he has known them for quite while.
He then had me drive to a neighboring college town that has people from all over the world come to go to school, so it's a fairly diverse place. He was telling me he liked it there because there were so many different kinds of interesting people. We stopped by his Dry Cleaners which was also ran by Chinese people and he left them with the other half of the vegetables.
Then on the way out of town he had me stop at the International Market. He asked me if I had ever tried Eel before and when I said I hadn't he bought me a couple of cans (it's ok, nothing to write home about imo).
So yeah, he was an old white redneck, but he wasn't a total piece of shit and fairly open minded about some things. I'm not sure why he hates roundabouts, but that attitude is super common around here, among all sorts of people.
I asked my neighbor, he said Europeans are stupid for driving in circles all day. So, that's how.
for a country who's core values is Car, they suck at driving
Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.
Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.
I reeeeal American I just don’t want my tax dollars going to fund other people’s firefighting costs. Can we privatize that??
Also a right to bear arms and own weapons is sacrosanct and very important to my people. Why can’t our people please finally be allowed go have nuclear weapons. Their kids need some too. Very important.
Idiots.
Yep. This person gets it. The auto and gasoline industry basically ruined the environment and our culture so a few select people can make a few $$$.
do germans move their cars like the flintstones or how do they manage to have fuel/battery for 74hrs?
Their cars run off centrifugal force.
There’s a few diesel cars that can reach that distance on one tank (though it requires hypermiling)
I did not know
hypermiling
means making post-purchase changes to your car to make it more efficient. Why wouldn’t manufacturers sell them in better quality to begin with?
Since you're in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!