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[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee -2 points 42 minutes ago

And the whole set of problems only exist because there are too many cars.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 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 5 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 29 points 17 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.

[-] Asetru@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago

I've seen this so often before and I still don't understand why they didn't just build an ordinary roundabout. It's just six roads that meet there. That's not beyond ordinary roundabout capabilities. Who said "you know what, let's just do a circular arrangement of five roundabouts here, that's so much better than what people are used to"?

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

My money is on "the french love roundabouts so we're not doing that"

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

That roundabout needs a speaker constantly playing Entry of the Gladiators on repeat

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 8 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 5 points 13 hours ago
[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 5 points 15 hours ago
[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 4 points 15 hours ago

Left side driving should be illegal

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 14 points 15 hours ago

It is in the most places on earth.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 7 points 13 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 15 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 10 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] gnu@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

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...

[-] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 6 points 16 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 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 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 18 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 16 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 15 hours ago

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

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 17 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.

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[-] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 22 hours ago

As the circle enlarges, the system approaches four T-intersections. What I want to know is: at what size circle to people lose their minds and become unable to comprehend how T-intersections work.

Fair play to people confused about multi-lane roundabouts though.

[-] Gurei@sh.itjust.works 12 points 23 hours ago

When I have a Car D behind me, it's because they overestimate my car's acceleration capabilities.

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