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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.
One of the work trucks used to have one that said “Go straight through the roundabout”. It was pretty tempting sometimes to take it at its word…
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 :(
E. Pink car turned turn signal on before entering the circle, keeps turn signal on all the way around the circle, thus invalidating any method of informing other drivers of which exit they intend to use. Car E deserves rapid unplanned orthodontics.
Signals are helpful indicators, but I rarely commit until I see someone’s front wheel change direction.
You’re probably already watching people’s wheels without realising. It’s the first real tell.
Ok, now do one where C and A arrive at the same time to an empty roundabout and A still, to this day, thinks they have the right of way. Because why wait a fraction of a second when I can make others wait for a lot longer?
I hate having classes in a classroom with windows pointing to a roundabout because I get to realize how NO ONE seems to do them correctly… (In Spain, for reference)
Depends on the size of the roundabout. For one big enough they could both join simultaneously and maintain a safe distance, that’s fine. If not, if you drive on the left the one on the right has priority and vice versa for the rest of the world.
In fact it’s only a problem if people arrive simultaneously at all junctions, since now there’s no person to the right of everyone.
In this case usually everyone stops (unless one of the cars is a BMW or audi) and then someone will start to move first. After which normal operational rules are restored.
if you drive on the left the one on the right has priority and vice versa for the rest of the world
Isn’t that backwards? US we drive on the right and if 2 people arrive at a stop at the same time you yield to your right, the rules would extrapolate out to the same at a roundabout time, googling and looking at the CA handbook produced squat so the rules might be “fuck it” here, actually
Nope. People are on a roundabout and in the UK you will be going clockwise. So traffic on the roundabout is coming from your right.
I’ve driven in Italy/Germany and it is the opposite. People are going anti clockwise so you have to give way to your left.
The principle is retained on mini roundabouts where you give way to people on the entrance/exit to your immediate right (or of course traffic already on the roundabout) even though those work most similar to 3/4 way stops.
Stop signs don’t need to follow logic of traffic movement direction so you I suppose give priority to the right because being on the right side of the road they are easier to see? I’m not sure where those rules were formulated though.
A does have the right of way over C. And the OP has a quite violent interpretation of transit rules that only make sense if it’s a large roundabout with a low speed.
Also, the pink car has the right of way over both. Both are quite right at stopping there, and D is invited to keep stressing themselves to death.
Now, if the pink car decided to stop and wait for A, then it maybe is worth pointing it to them.
I got my driver’s license pretty recently and in driving classes I was always told to look at the left first to see if anyone is inside the roundabout, and then to the right to see if I have to let someone go before me (on small roundabouts). Think it from a logical standpoint: A wouldn’t even need to completely stop to let C in first, while, if A goes first, C needs to stop and wait while A passes in front of them.
It may be a new rule, because no one seems to know about it (or pay it any mind).
Really? I thought you never look to the right in a roundabout. You look to the left, and if it’s clear, you enter and look forward until you exit. That said, I’ve never been to a small enough roundabout that there could be a conflict just after entering.
The OP’s idea here is that since A is stopped, C has plenty of time to enter the roudabout. That’s reasonable if the roudabout is large, and crazy if it’s not.
Your idea that C can enter anyway, even if A didn’t stop is just crazy.
Why? A and C should be able to enter simultaneously. There’s no reason for A to stop.
Circles are awesome, fight me!
I’m always the pink car but get cut off by car A who decides to gun it soon as I’m right where pink car is
When I have a Car D behind me, it’s because they overestimate my car’s acceleration capabilities.
My country is full of donkeys driving cars
Damn, how’d you train a donkey to drive?
Who said anything about training?
I get in and out of those roundabouts as fast as possible
I don’t mind the design, I think they’re great and save time and reduce traffic congestion
I just don’t trust drivers of this generation to use them properly. We are currently in a transition period of generations … an older generation of drivers that didn’t grow up with these and a newer group who will think these roundabouts will be normal. As long as these old timers (including me) are around, these traffic situations will be dangerous.
Which is why, when I get to these roundabouts, I get in as quickly as possible and get out as quickly as I can
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
Gotta be aggressive for those
I have The Perfect Round-A-Bout for you.
It’s insane. It’s also brilliant.
Yeah I’m a fan.
My city has no traffic lights. Roundabouts everywhere. It’s not a particularly big city.
There are some problems but in general I think everyone gets where they’re going a lot quicker.
you aught to try the kind that’s 3 lanes going to 5 different places and a tram running through the middle!
(this was the most dangerous intersection in my city for a while… they’ve added traffic lights… i do also very much love roundabouts)
My favorite is when the pink car stops to allow car ‘A’ to go 🙃
Bus drivers have entered the chat.
Some larger roundabouts work that way. Most (in)famously the arc de triomphe in Paris.
Where I live there are two of these
Oh God I love that its just so hulaeuosly dumb when it happens
I just put my hands in the air and yell at them
“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”
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THIS! FFS
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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But they are on the right side.
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Woosh~
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No, they are on the right side.
Whose on first?
I’m always D
etermined to keep my head up high, but it gets hard when I’m deep in a
cult
ITT: People road raging over imaginary traffic.
Drivers seem to love complaining about drivers
Those small green pissing pyramids are blocking the road.
