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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Broke: Car C is being a responsible, safety focused driver

Woke: Car C is holding up traffic for no good reason

Bespoke: Car Pink is whipping around that turn at 80 kmph and going to kill everyone anyone, so don't sweet it.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Just go right over the center and see if you can clear C and D.

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago

Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It's a "close your eyes, pray and hit the gas" type of place.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Then you see the cars completely ignoring the sub-circles and driving over them or backwards to the arrows.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

No one will ever be able to invade the UK, they'll get stuck in this horror.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 hours ago

It's really five regular roundabouts circling one central roundabout.

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

People will unironically see this and proclaim that it's actually not that complicated...

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago
[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago
[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I drove through that one, not easy. I prefer the turbine design we use in Germany.

[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 2 points 9 hours ago

Left side driving should be illegal

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 10 points 9 hours ago

It is in the most places on earth.

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[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 hours ago

Car C is really just waiting for the pink car to arrive so that they can slam the gas as soon as it does.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

And that's why turn-by-turn navigation systems phrase it as "take the third exit from the roundabout" these days.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

The lion does not concern himself with car C. Car D should plough straight through them.

[-] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

The hard part is when back to back traffic for 15 miles worth of cars is coming from one direction and everyone else is either too scared to zipper merge or they allow the one direction to have perpetual right of way.

At some point of heavy traffic, the circle right of way must yield for zipper merging, else face my ass aggro merging and beeping at everyone who doesn't.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Replace the pink car with a bicycle an A is suddenly not being in the mood to yield anymore.

I was going straight once and had to go back in and do a full turn (180° + 360°) because of that.

[-] Aux@feddit.uk 8 points 12 hours ago

All cars will yield to a bicycle in the UK, because less protected members of the road traffic always take priority.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 10 hours ago

All cars should yield.

When I used to cycle, I'd just go on the pavements at large roundabouts. Not much point in being right but dead.

[-] Aux@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago

I personally never had any issues. British drivers are very polite and cautious.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 11 hours ago

Welp, I'm not in the UK.
Over here, people go with - what is the most threatening to themselves - and it really feels weird that people who have presumably passed the driving exam are worse at roundabouts than me.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I'm a daily cyclist and I think I'd be terrified to bike through a full roundabout. They're absolutely marvelous designs for throughput that doesn't require complex signal automation, but the flip side of that is they're pretty hostile if you're not a motor vehicle. Any truly good roundabout design should include pedestrian and cycle paths along the periphery that have priority when crossing the circles entrances.

[-] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago
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