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[-] StannisDMannis@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

That's because Americans don't know how to use them, once you live in a place where people use them OPs picture becomes your issue and you never see yours.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Americans have a hard time driving, period. They can’t “keep right unless passing”, they can’t understand 4-way stops, they can’t understand traffic circles, and so much more. So frustrating and dangerous here.

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yesterday, I had to drive for at least 15 miles behind a transfer truck doing 45 because an idiot decided to cruise in the passing lane right beside it. I see it at least once a week.

What's so hard about understanding the left lane is THE PASSING LANE. FOR PASSING CARS IN THE RIGHT LANE?!

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It’s completely F’d up. In the region I live in there are a lot of 3-lane highways (6 lanes total). People “cruise” in the #2 lane and treat it like the slow lane which forces faster traffic left and right around them in the #1 and #3 lanes sometimes going 5 under the limit, often confounded by a #1 lane camper going the speed limit or just a few over. Nobody obeys any sort of rule or has a clue they aren’t being the asshole. They refuse to keep right or yield to faster traffic.

[-] tromars@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

I know that „there must be a German word for that“ is became a meme, with lot of fake words being thrown around, but I’m not even joking: There’s a German word for that lol ✨Mittelspurschleicher✨

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I was just thinking yesterday that if Trump actually wanted to do good he could convert all these people he's hiring for ICE into some kind of traffic enforcement agency and send all the dumbasses that can't drive properly to el salvador. This thought happened while I was stuck in a drive through that some moron had blocked the exit of by pulling up too far.

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

1 lane each way highways solve this issue by preventing there being a passing lane except on straight aways when there is no oncoming traffic.

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I have to agree.

I'm old, and most roads were 2 lane when I was a child. These problem didn't exist then.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Many dont understand four way stop signs either

[-] AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I think that's location specific, I've lived in a few different places in the US that had roundabouts, although I've always called em rotaries in the northeast.

[-] XnxCuX@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah same here. Only know roundabout because that's how the GPS says it lol

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My city (US) used to have one that was signed all wrong, so cars already inside the circle would have to yield to the ones entering. Naturally this led to congestion instead of flowing traffic. Also it was way too close to a tangential road so that made things even worse because the backed up traffic on that side then affected cars that weren't even going to the circle.

Fortunately they ripped that shit out and redesigned the entire intersection.

this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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