And the whole set of problems only exist because there are too many cars.
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.
Just go right over the center and see if you can clear C and D.
Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It's a "close your eyes, pray and hit the gas" type of place.
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"?
My money is on "the french love roundabouts so we're not doing that"
Then you see the cars completely ignoring the sub-circles and driving over them or backwards to the arrows.
No one will ever be able to invade the UK, they'll get stuck in this horror.
It's really five regular roundabouts circling one central roundabout.
Left side driving should be illegal
It is in the most places on earth.
Good.
People will unironically see this and proclaim that it's actually not that complicated...
Holy hell
I drove through that one, not easy. I prefer the turbine design we use in Germany.
Car C is really just waiting for the pink car to arrive so that they can slam the gas as soon as it does.
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.
F. The more fundamental problem is that these are all cars, not bikes. Fuck cars.
I'm waiting til it becomes normal for individuals to use old school buses as their commuter vehicles. It's the inevitable destination of the car size war.
Right, that's the funny thing about roundabouts. They're a marvelous solution to local motor vehicle throughput. That become completely unnecessary if your traffic is anything besides motor vehicles. In fact, for bikes and pedestrians and anyone else who can look at each other eye to eye and even just talk to one another if need be, no signals or signs are necessary at all.
Well yes, but actually bikes wouldn't even need a roundabout with rules like this in the first place.
The lion does not concern himself with car C. Car D should plough straight through them.
When I have a Car D behind me, it's because they overestimate my car's acceleration capabilities.
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.
Not everybody is cut out to drive (i.e. to operate dangerous heavy machinery in a fast-changing environment with others depending on you handling the situation correctly). The problem is when we structure our societies requiring everyone to do so to participate.
I mean, nothing here is wrong but I have rarely had C being my primary issue when dealing with roundabouts. Idiots randomly entering the circle with no regard to other cars, THAT I've encountered quite frequently...
Ah yes, car E driven by Leeeerrroooooyyyy Jenkins
Watching the shadow of the car, it takes out the top of a tree
Biggest problem I encounter is people failing to signal their exit
So I end up being C because I yield to a bunch of bozos who didn’t communicate they were’t going to come my way
Well we can kinda only go when the signal is accompanied by another indication like slowing and or beginning to turn - “never trust a signal” eh?
Those small green pissing pyramids are blocking the road.
Alternative scenario: C starts entering, A decides to FUCKING FLOOR IT, slams into C
C is yielding to a pedestrian, but carbrain D cannot fathom yielding to anything smaller than their car.
I've been car A and still had car D behind me beep at me. We hate car D.
Funny
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