Double decker buses are iconic and wouldn’t have this problem (instead they get stuck in low bridges).
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Single intersection gridlock is... special.
Damn, like 100 cars sharing a single IQ point.
So like Cities Skylines but for real.
It's crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone's just sitting.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
I do think of that mentality "But I don't want to go right, I want to go straight, I'm not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I'm waiting here until that happens" as an American thing, but I guess we don't have a monopoly on it.
“But it’s not my favorite way! I can’t go that way!”
I’ll take exits to who knows where to avoid traffic even if sitting in it is technically faster. Every time the highway gets shut down for a snow-related accident, my adventure gene lights up and we go exploring the back country. It’s never fun, but it beats sitting in traffic, and it’s never as bad as the time I got stuck on the highway in a blizzard and was stuck at 15mph for a normally 2-hour-70-mph drive that took me some 5-7 hrs to complete.. the next morning I took a perfect imprint of my license plate off the ice covering my car. Kept that in my freezer in a box for a couple years until sublimation made it unreadable.
That too was bothering me a lot.
They had to pose for the picture of course
The picture is of American drivers, though.
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Especially if you have that mod that disables traffic despawning, along with that realistic building population mod. Build one skyscraper without having a robust public transit system already in place, and it'll bring your city to its knees.
Hey, I've played this one
Wow, it's like a giant sliding block puzzle.
At some point, it's literally that. You have to kick everyone out of their cars and start loading the cars up on wheel dollies, then slide them out sideways. Or bring in a forklift to do the same.
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Are they still there to this day?
You know at some point the cars that can turn right will and the cars to their left will be able to turn right and so on. Seems like this will eventually unfuck itself.
But then the cars that turn will be giving in!?! They will be late for the thing they're doing!
Plus, turning right isn't what THEY want to do! Everyone else should turn right, clearly.
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Do they not have a "don't block the box" type of law there? Being within the intersection like that seems crazy to me
Sometimes you just need to be the reason for the safety meeting
Seems they do. That's what the yellow markings on the road are for.
Oh buddy, traffic laws in Brazil are light suggestions not really enforced. Red lights? Just drive through, don't stop. Roundabout? Just drive straight through they're just painted circles on the road, silly. One way street? Who's gonna stop me? Roads usually flow like you see in SE Asia where its like a flowing stream of motorcycles, except there's a lot more VW Gol's and Fiat Uno's. Even the Civil and Military police don't give a shit and drive like everyone else. Just don't get caught speeding on a speed camera or you will get a ticket for going .1 KPH over the limit.
Check out the whole line of cars that could be getting through right-to-left, but there are two jerkwads who insist on not moving their car a foot or two apart to open up the little space and let them proceed.
Turns out the real America was in the hearts of the world this entire time
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There are modern roundabouts and then there are rotary intersections. Modern roundabouts have traffic entering the circle yield to traffic already within it, while rotary intersections have traffic within the circle yield to traffic entering. That makes rotaries, but not modern roundabouts, susceptible to locking up like this.
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Osloboros.
*Oslobobus.
Almost this exact picture was used to explain "Deadlocks" in one of my early computer science classes in college.
Solution is simple. Plant the busses in place as a permanent memorial to the passengers.
I propose the busses fight and eat each other until only the strongest bus remains.
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The growth of a bus tree would also help boost the local economy.
Factorio flashback intensifies.
A world without chain signals is not one I want to live in
Lisa needs braces.
Dental plan!
This happens in nature as well. Ants, antelope, and many other unintelligent animals get stuck in a "death spiral" and die of exhaustion.
the people who designed that town don't seem to understand that rectangles don't fit into a circle
Oslo
That town
Yeah, so the people who designed the roads in Oslo are all a bunch of morons
Idk this seems like a bit of a special situation I can imagine normally being out of consideration when planning stuff. The roundabout looks fairly normal
there's a whole lot of EU buttlickers around on Lemmy, huh?
EU?
Eourpean Union.
One of the most authoritarian organizations ever.
Imagine...your country, having less power over its self than others do.
What does EU have to do with any of this..?
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