As the circle enlarges, the system approaches four T-intersections. What I want to know is: at what size circle do people lose their minds and become unable to comprehend how T-intersections work.
Fair play to people confused about multi-lane roundabouts though.
Car C is really just waiting for the pink car to arrive so that they can slam the gas as soon as it does.
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.
And that’s why turn-by-turn navigation systems phrase it as “take the third exit from the roundabout” these days.
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…
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…
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
Ah yes, car E driven by Leeeerrroooooyyyy Jenkins
My favorite is when the pink car stops to allow car ‘A’ to go 🙃
“if I randomly stop in the middle of the road so another car can get in, the car right behind me probably won’t hit me”
Cyclist here.
Someone did that for me, so I tried to rush across the street to not hold up traffic.
Woke up a few weeks later in physical rehab, not remembering anything because of the TBI. Evidently I was in the hospital for about three weeks. No recollection!
C may be right to yield depending on where pink and yellow are going and the speed they’re doing.
C has plenty of space to be out of the way before pink and yellow can catch up to it.
It’s a small roundabout and it’s prudent to wait a second to see what they’re doing. Being impatient isn’t a good trait when driving.
If C is moving (and they should be), there’s no reason to wait. If C isn’t moving, yeah, maybe it’s worth waiting, but then my question is why they weren’t moving.
Not if they’re moving quickly and not signalling their intent.
Signaling is not useful in a circle because it’s on the opposite side of the car. By the time you see the signal, it’s too late to make a decision based on that anyway.
As you approach, you should adjust your speed to fit into traffic in the circle. Don’t look for signals, just look for cars.
this just here, we don’t have many roundabouts but, the amount of drivers who think it’s a race to get from point a to point b is unreasonable. I’m not about to enter the roundabout as car c if the pink or yellow car is flying with no indicators.
Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It’s a “close your eyes, pray and hit the gas” type of place.
That roundabout needs a speaker constantly playing Entry of the Gladiators on repeat
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”?
I am car C. I don’t care if car D is pissed at me, because I have autism and driving is overwhelming for me. I’m being extra cautious because it takes me longer to process sensory input because I can’t filter out the irrelevant things. Plus, I always make sure to check the crosswalks. I as a pedestrian have come very close to being hit while crossing multiple times and it seems most other drivers don’t give a shit about pedestrians at all.
This is no excuse. If sensory issues make it difficult for you to drive correctly, then you should not be driving at all.
If you think being cautious is incorrect then you don’t know what driving incorrectly means.
Being cautious is correct. Being unpredictable because you’re driving abnormally is super dangerous.
The reason we have a driving system is so that everyone knows that to expect from everyone else. If you operate outside of that system you’re a danger to yourself and everyone else.
Literally what I said
No… It’s not
Assuming binary options of cautiousness (either you can be cautious or not) and only one being correct, ‘being cautious is correct’ is equivalent to NOT ‘being cautious is incorrect’. Which is what I said.
It’s not a binary option. It’s a spectrum. You need to be cautious while driving, which is correct. You CAN be TOO cautious, which is in itself incorrect.
Stop being a pedant.
If you can’t drive don’t get behind the wheel
I’d gladly opt out of driving if it were reasonable to do so. Give us transit and proper bicycle infrastructure so I that don’t risk getting pancaked but some fuckwit driver with their nose in their phone.
Note that I’ve been driving for over a quarter century without collision or moving violation, so not so much a skill issue per se.
It sounds like you’re disabled in this area, and it’s unfair that the world is not more accommodating.
“Change the world to accommodate my disability and I’ll quit being a hazard to people’s life, limb, and property” is not an acceptable attitude.
It sounds like you’re disabled in this area
I’m not quite sure how you got that from my original comment: “Note that I’ve been driving for over a quarter century without collision or moving violation, so not so much a skill issue per se.”
My bad, mistook your reply as being from the top level comment OP.
My country is full of donkeys driving cars
Damn, how’d you train a donkey to drive?
Turnabout fucking sucks.
Way more go wrong than lights, increase car to car interactions massively, inappropriate european fad. This for place that don’t mind getting bog down doing more than an hour to get 50km away because they don’t have important things to do
Traffic circles are safer, reduce maintenance costs, slows the fucking speeders and more efficient than your fucking stop sign and signal intersections.
Turns travel into a slog. Turnabout land is infected, essentially a cancerous mass growing out of the city, taking over the land, urbanisation.
Better than 4-way stop signs, fuck that noise.
I’ll just put this here so people can actually get som real info and not the nonsense you are spewing.
I won’t be reading roubdabout propaganda and the reader shouldn’t either. We seen first hand these things proliferate and make driving even more of a chore dumped on travellers willy nilly.
My willy ain’t nilly, Willy.
