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[–] • 8 pts

to be fair, roundabouts are weird when you've never seen one.

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Oh my god.

Ive seen calculus equations less complicated than that.

Who in the hell designed that?

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

A diversity hire?

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Not going to lie. I'd need an escort the first couple of times for that.

[–] • 3 pts

we have roundabouts where im from.

we even have 'hook turn' intersection.

that fucking thing is an abomination.

[–] • 0 pt

This is some sort of demonic summoning circle painted in road geometry.

[–] • 2 pts

Only for retards that can’t read the signs.

[–] • 7 pts

That's not a roundabout, that's a standard intersection with rounded corners and an island in the middle. A real roundabout is much larger so the turning radius isn't stupid.

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Notice all zero signs they have up helping people with this new abomination.

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There is no case in driving in the US where you're supposed to drive to the left, except on one-way roads. People do this stupidity any time there's a circle, not just a roundabout. Even in a campground with a loop people break left and drive the wrong way almost as often as the right way. The even do it in a grocery store where there's a narrow aisle that forms a loop. I don't understand how this is so hard for people.

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

i think roundabouts would still work in the US its just not something you do. You just go in the opposite direction. Ive had standing rows with people about who goes first. "Give way to the right." "oh but oh but thats not always true beca-" "NAME ME A FUCKING ROUNDABOUT IN AUSTRALIA YOU HAVE CARS COMING AT YOU FROM THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION"

In your case youd be going counter clockwise and giving way to everything on your left.

The UK DOES have one good thing that isnt common here that i picked up and still do now... coming out of roundabouts with multi lanes they actually indicate when theyre turning off, rather than indicating that youre going around the roundabout then just fuckiing off whichever exit at random like we do here. Which way are you pointing your car now vs which way do you intend to go.

[–] • 5 pts (edited )

How can you be that stupid?

I recall being a bit confused at a roundabout when I approached one for the first time. To be fair, it had multiple circles connected in pretty close succession. But the rules for one circle are the same for every circle. I don't know how you approach one of these and suddenly the regular rules of the road are out-the-window, and you just go to the left side of the median? I'd think intuitively you'd grasp that the movement is counter-clockwise, but even if you didn't, every roundabout I have ever been to has a sign with arrows that show the direction of traffic flow. I think the counter-intuitive part for people is the concept of using your own judgment on yielding versus going - people are used to rules that tell you every move to make.

They installed one last year at an intersection very close to my home, and I love it. Once people get the gist of things, it's very smooth. Of course, you always have to be attentive when using them because there is always some jackass capable of pulling out right in front of you. Besides that person, the other person who fucks these up are the people who come to a dead stop at the yield sign and basically wait for the circle to clear before they'll go. They create a line behind them, and then that line can fuck up the whole circle. These depend on good 'flow'.

[–] • 3 pts

We had one of these at my apartment complex parking lot and people were so fucking self-entitled they would go the wrong direction at the roundabouts as a "shortcut" to turn left. I had to slam my brakes more than once for people cutting me off going the wrong way. Of course, this was in a city where the average IQ was retarded.

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One thing I've learned from motorcycle riding is that most people on the road don't belong there.

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I came to that determination long before I started riding. Split my initial bike budget in half and spent it on safety equipment to increase my odds, lol.

Edit: Funny story for the upvote. You weren't asking but yes, I own an airbag vest, lol. Amazingly, in the only fast moving accident I've had (thus far) I forgot to fucking clip it to my bike! Thankfully, it was cold so I had full gear and both the airbag vest and jacket have decent spine protectors built in. Also, somehow, not a scratch on the helmet but completely fucked my boots. Life is weird.

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Honestly! Roundabouts are great. Got one near my home in the boonies and it really helps out the semi traffic. But, 15 minutes east they put one near a community, and the fuckery that happens in that intersection.

WHO STOPS WHILE IN THE CIRCLE?!?!

There is one in Wisconsin near the southern border that has a back to back roundabout just off an interstate. That one really fucked with me cause I was using GPS due to a traffic jam on the interstate, and I was trying to read the signs for which direction to head.

Talk about a confusing sign with two roundabouts in the same image on the side of the road.

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I know that one, it's not even bad. It has signs and the lanes are clearly marked. Nothing about them is confusing, they just aren't common.

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The reason it's unintuitive to people is obvious in the video. The shortest route to turn left is to just turn left, not go all the way around the circle, even though the latter is correct for these things.

I guess it depends on how efficiency minded you are vs first thinking of observation of road laws/rules.

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Is this rural kentucky town somehow populated by a bunch of slopes?

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As screamtrucks has already posted Swindon's magic roundabout, I'll throw in Stoke's version

Smallthorne Roundabout (youtube.com)

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That has to be the result of shitty gov diversity hiring.

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It was around when I was a kid so technically not, although Stoke council has always been a Leftist enclave so I'm going with natural incompetence

Stoke is still a difficult city to navigate, its a big urban sprawl of low quality housing, so anything connected to transport first requires demolishing a thousand terraced houses

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That's because the average person is retarded. For that amount of traffic it should have worked just fine. Although four yield signs would have worked much better.

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Yeah, four yield signs and painted arrows. The confusion seems to be the one-way streets all with two lanes.

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I don't think they are one way streets. They just appear that way. If they are then the diversity hire that designed this needs to be fired and stripped of any credentials.

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S/he/ve/zor will be promoted.

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Those are supposed to be entrance and exit lanes; not two 1-way streets. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.

Actually, that just drives the point home. It's a terrible design if we can't even discuss it without confusion. Signage would definitely clear this up.

[–] • 2 pts

it works. don't understand why all the streets are one way though.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

It would have been just fine if people weren't approaching it from a one-way street, same direction in both lanes. That's just confusing as hell.

Part of the problem is nobody remembers what they were taught in Drivers' Ed but never actually encountered regularly. For example, a flashing red light or a flashing yellow light at an intersection.

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That's a lot of stupid fucking people.

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well done america. well done.

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