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Easy guide for using a roundabout (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Guide to using a roundabout

  1. When approaching roundabout area, don't adjust your speed
  2. When approaching the entrance to the roundabout, close your eyes and hold your steering wheel tightly
  3. When entering the roundabout, let your vehicle be guided by barriers, curbs, railings and other vehicles
  4. Wait until your vehicle exits the roundabout
  5. After you exit the roundabout, open your eyes
  6. If your vehicle fails, stops or is severely damaged or unable to function any more .... blame everyone else for what just occurred.
[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I know this is memes but as a Brit, I’ll never understand how people are scared of, don’t understand, or don’t see that roundabouts are superior.

It takes a few goes in them during driving lessons and they get easier.

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I read somewhere that in America to get your license, you take a 40 question quiz, that you can pass with up to 10 mistakes and the driving test usually consists of low speed driving and parking, no highways, no roundabouts.

Don't know how much of this is true, but that sounds too simple.

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

They're good in low traffic areas. They're way better than a 4 way stop, but in high traffic areas traffic lights are better.

Edit: Apparently I was wrong about this.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

in high traffic areas traffic lights are better.

Absolutely not. And roundabouts have traffic lights too, these are not mutually exclusive.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

Not necessarily.

Roundabouts are used in area of moderate to high traffic where multiple roads meet and places where continuous flow is needed. Like motorway junctions. The junction near me is very high traffic, and we use a roundabout with traffic lights too. They can be less effective if the flow of traffic is heavy in one direction but not the other.

Traffic lights are used in busy urban areas where there are a lot of pedestrians or places with uneven traffic distribution. These can cause issues of slowing traffic in quieter times due to lights not really being smart and knowing when people are there.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

Nope. Traffic lights create high traffic areas, by unnecessarily delaying cross traffic.

Near my parents house, there is a 6-way intersection. When I was growing up, it was served by traffic lights, with straight and left-turn lanes in all directions. Traffic was backed up all day long in 3 of the 6 directions, to the point that pretty much everyone waited through at least two turns.

A few years after I left home, they converted it to a two-lane roundabout. Traffic immediately died down. Now, you typically see one to two other vehicles when you pass through the intersection, and you never wait more than a few seconds to get through.

[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Step 0: Get a monster truck.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Americans are seemingly already prepared

[–] iii@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Video tutorial: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FPw_dWTxjmk

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

WTF!

It's amazing that nobody was hurt. I would never guess from the images.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

Per the picture, of you have a death wish.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Video tutorial covering roundabouts and also defensive techniques for fighter aircraft.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A bit of info for anyone who doesn't know how to use a roundabout: it's just a one-way street that loops around on itself tightly. Seriously. That's it.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I want to get off Mr Bone's Wild roundabout!

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

It can get slightly tricky when it has two lanes where only the right lane exits. The idea here is that you should merge into the right lane after the last exit before your exit, but so many people in my neighborhood don’t understand this.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know, they are so easy to understand.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

They are, but I feel like there are people who like to cause unnecessary confusion by making things out to be more complex than they are (not just limites to roundabouts, either).

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a great Forza guide.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, it's a shame they didn't make a fifth one 😐.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Avg american driver

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some of the roundabouts in my town are subterranean and have a column of bedrock in the middle. Good luck with that.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Pray

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Of course the ones above ground are covered in ice for about half the year and you end up slow speed drifting around them.

[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sending this to my new british friend asap

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wrong side of the road on this picture.

[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

Okay... Sending it to him cause he loves making fun of me for being american :/

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

For that 1 roundabout in the picture, yeah, just go through it. Whoever made it didn't care to learn how roundabouts work either.

[–] Llufollis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I live in France and I can confirm, this is how we drive roundabouts (but you have to watch out for the people demonstrating (or not🙃)).

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have been to France quite a few times and I never noticed that. Using someone else's bumper as a stopping bar however...

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Now playing The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

This is my first satisfying chuckle of the day. Something about it is just right (to me).

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Do not look up at the sky. Do not make noise.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

The rules for roundabouts are the same as the rules for crossing into the beyond in Pet Sematary

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Just watch out for the guy camping there, Steve's a good guy and is just temporarily down on his luck

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

X do not surrender

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This does make me wonder: do municipalities with a large number of roundabouts have stats for how these things foil drunk drivers? I feel like there's a serious possibility of reducing fatalities if we just replace the center of these circles with ponds and/or sand traps.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Or with a minefield.

[–] Drz@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

There have been efforts https://youtu.be/xTk_kPeA63c

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hey, who got this picture of me?

[–] comador@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Definitely the drunkard way, or American way; both interchangeable.