Circles are awesome, fight me!
E. Pink car turned turn signal on before entering the circle, keeps turn signal on all the way around the circle, thus invalidating any method of informing other drivers of which exit they intend to use. Car E deserves rapid unplanned orthodontics.
Signals are helpful indicators, but I rarely commit until I see someone’s front wheel change direction.
You’re probably already watching people’s wheels without realising. It’s the first real tell.
The pink car is yielding incorrectly, and may cause an accident.
My city has two circles, both one lane with 3 entry/exits. Actually the one not near me might have more, but I know its one lane. Amazing how many people have trouble with them.
The pink car isn’t yielding at all, it’s in motion
When I have a Car D behind me, it’s because they overestimate my car’s acceleration capabilities.
Those small green pissing pyramids are blocking the road.
Wait until you find out about the French rules of roundabouts.
I had a good laugh standing on top of the Arc de Triomphe watching four/five/six 🤷 chaotic lanes of traffic swirl around it. And then a gendarme turned up and started pulling people over for no apparent reason - it was wild.
Video from some Czech tourists: https://youtu.be/-2RCPpdmSVg
Hoooly shit I hate regular roundabouts but this is just another level
My country is full of donkeys driving cars
Damn, how’d you train a donkey to drive?
Who said anything about training?
I love roundabouts as a driver and as a pedestrian. I do admit that the double laned ones can feel like an utter cluster at times though
I have The Perfect Round-A-Bout for you.
It’s insane. It’s also brilliant.
Gotta be aggressive for those
Yeah I’m a fan.
My city has no traffic lights. Roundabouts everywhere. It’s not a particularly big city.
There are some problems but in general I think everyone gets where they’re going a lot quicker.
you aught to try the kind that’s 3 lanes going to 5 different places and a tram running through the middle!
(this was the most dangerous intersection in my city for a while… they’ve added traffic lights… i do also very much love roundabouts)
I love how the meme assumes everyone trusts everyone else’s driving. Utopian ideals, man.
That’s not how roundabouts work. They’re really simple:
- Look left and enter when clear
- Look straight until you exit
That’s it. This only gets complicated if traffic is backed up, in which case everyone is going slow enough for it to not matter.
Nice, I don’t know why, but I was picturing the pink car going fast enough to squeal their tires like they used to in the one nearest where I live. We only got roundabouts here a decade or two ago, so they’re still a novelty to most. I don’t drive much, as you can probably tell.
Yeah, speeds in a roundabout should be very slow, like 15mph/20-25kph. Bigger ones can handle a bit faster traffic, but they’re not designed for high speed, but lack of stopping.
And I envy you, I wish I didn’t need to drive as much.
My mom taught me to never trust a turn signal (or lack of one)
You not following the rules because you assume everyone else isn’t following the rules is why no one is following the rules…
I don’t follow the rules only because I don’t drive at all. Otherwise, yes, you are correct, I don’t follow rules which endanger my life. Just weird that way.
Well you usually find out the rules when you learn to drive. Roundabouts are spooky at first but once you have the rules down it’s actually one of the easier things.
Ok, now do one where C and A arrive at the same time to an empty roundabout and A still, to this day, thinks they have the right of way. Because why wait a fraction of a second when I can make others wait for a lot longer?
I hate having classes in a classroom with windows pointing to a roundabout because I get to realize how NO ONE seems to do them correctly… (In Spain, for reference)
A does have the right of way over C. And the OP has a quite violent interpretation of transit rules that only make sense if it’s a large roundabout with a low speed.
Also, the pink car has the right of way over both. Both are quite right at stopping there, and D is invited to keep stressing themselves to death.
Now, if the pink car decided to stop and wait for A, then it maybe is worth pointing it to them.
I got my driver’s license pretty recently and in driving classes I was always told to look at the left first to see if anyone is inside the roundabout, and then to the right to see if I have to let someone go before me (on small roundabouts). Think it from a logical standpoint: A wouldn’t even need to completely stop to let C in first, while, if A goes first, C needs to stop and wait while A passes in front of them.
It may be a new rule, because no one seems to know about it (or pay it any mind).
Really? I thought you never look to the right in a roundabout. You look to the left, and if it’s clear, you enter and look forward until you exit. That said, I’ve never been to a small enough roundabout that there could be a conflict just after entering.
The OP’s idea here is that since A is stopped, C has plenty of time to enter the roudabout. That’s reasonable if the roudabout is large, and crazy if it’s not.
Your idea that C can enter anyway, even if A didn’t stop is just crazy.
Why? A and C should be able to enter simultaneously. There’s no reason for A to stop.
Depends on the size of the roundabout. For one big enough they could both join simultaneously and maintain a safe distance, that’s fine. If not, if you drive on the left the one on the right has priority and vice versa for the rest of the world.
In fact it’s only a problem if people arrive simultaneously at all junctions, since now there’s no person to the right of everyone.
In this case usually everyone stops (unless one of the cars is a BMW or audi) and then someone will start to move first. After which normal operational rules are restored.
if you drive on the left the one on the right has priority and vice versa for the rest of the world
Isn’t that backwards? US we drive on the right and if 2 people arrive at a stop at the same time you yield to your right, the rules would extrapolate out to the same at a roundabout time, googling and looking at the CA handbook produced squat so the rules might be “fuck it” here, actually
Nope. People are on a roundabout and in the UK you will be going clockwise. So traffic on the roundabout is coming from your right.
I’ve driven in Italy/Germany and it is the opposite. People are going anti clockwise so you have to give way to your left.
The principle is retained on mini roundabouts where you give way to people on the entrance/exit to your immediate right (or of course traffic already on the roundabout) even though those work most similar to 3/4 way stops.
Stop signs don’t need to follow logic of traffic movement direction so you I suppose give priority to the right because being on the right side of the road they are easier to see? I’m not sure where those rules were formulated though.
D car should be honking
I feel as if I am the only one in my city with a horn, it’s ridiculous.
There is a light where you are not allowed to turn left because it blocks everyone behind you and oncoming traffic is too dense to actually make the turn, so there is a sign indicating no left turns, and a green arrow for the light, indicating that you may only go straight. Yet people will sit here for an entire light cycle waiting to take an illegal left turn and no one behind them honks. I just don’t understand it.
I feel no guilt in holding my horn down until they get out of everyone’s way.
Gotta be careful in some places youll get shot at for honking
Maybe I’m desensitized to it, because I live in an area where that’s possible, but I don’t really have a fear of that. Despite what people would have you believe, that’s actually very rare.
Car C is really just waiting for the pink car to arrive so that they can slam the gas as soon as it does.
C is yielding to a pedestrian, but carbrain D cannot fathom yielding to anything smaller than their car.
A pedestrian would cross between C and D, or even behind D.
Pedestrian would be safer crossing somewhere with a pedestrian crossing
There’s no pedestrian in the image.
Cars are bad enough as it is that we don’t have to imagine more problems with them.
I’ve been car A and still had car D behind me beep at me. We hate car D.
Were this a 2 lane roundabout, car d would be changing lanes to bypass car c, nearly striking that pedestrian
It took me three attempts to parse
We’re this a 2 lane roundabout,
Your mistake is even harder to type than the correct ‘Were’!
Autocorrect fucks me on were we’re all the time. I bet that’s what happened.
Yup. Swipe keyboard.
yall need real keyboards.
Nope, same level of difficulty since the swipe keyboard autocorrect added the unneeded apostrophe.
Hate it when that happens!
Pedestrian crossing without traffic lights at a 2 lane roundabout entry? That’s just murderous design.
Try a 3 lane roundabout entry. I cross that shit twice a day on my commute to work every fucking day. Other options are very far out of the way as to make them non-viable.
I always wave on traffic so that I may cross when it is safe. Sometimes, a car stops to let me through, and refuses to move. I won’t go, because I can’t see the other two lanes past the car that is stopped. Four times in the past year, that car was rear ended by a massive fuckoff truck. For whatever reason, they get pissed off at me, not the guy that rear ended them.
I only once encountered it in Czechia near Plzen with 2 lanes. Think it took me 5 minutes before I could/dared. Can’t imagine it with 3. Crazy dangerous situation. Stay safe!
Does turning your head/body to face away from that car that refuses to move help much?
Traffic lights on a roundabout kinda defeats the purpose doesn’t it? might as well signalize the intersection
Tho not preferable, there’s cases where it can work. The roundabout layout still provides a better (easier) entry to the crossroads, the traffic lights can create a “cadence”. Technically not a roundabout anymore, it does use some of it’s qualities.
Anyhow, pedestrian crossings on 2 lanes right before any kind of intersection without any lights is way more dangerous than a roundabout with lights.
Signalised lead ins are helpful to solve flow issues caused by an imbalance in traffic direction at certain times of day. When you get too much traffic building up that can’t enter the roundabout due to no gaps you activate the red light before the entrance dominating traffic flow to give a period where the other directions can move through. The actual roundabout works as per normal and you don’t have to deal with lights during non-peak periods.
Lights on a roundabout make it not really a roundabout but an unholy mishmash of intersection design. I’ve got one near me and the only thing going for it was that converting a roundabout was significantly cheaper than the flyover intersection it really should be made into.
There’s only one or two in my area that would warrant adding signals, but they’re only backed up during rush hour by people trying to take a “shortcut” around the highway traffic. So I consider them kinda self limiting due to the traffic. Not many more people try to take that route at that time when they’re aware that it’s clogged in the direction of rush hour traffic.
The other is right next to a private school and is only clogged because nobody uses their bus service, so, I don’t have any sympathy for the parents.
ITT: People road raging over imaginary traffic.
Drivers seem to love complaining about drivers
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…
