74 hours without the stops!
Uh, you know we have roundabouts in the US too, right?
Round about one roundabout
This is a reference to a series of old memes that popped up as a reaction to each other
https://lemmy.world/post/14474175
https://lemmy.world/post/14726913
https://lemmy.world/post/14707889there were a lot more
You don’t need a roundabout to drive around a block forever.
There’s a million things Americans can’t comprehend. Not licking billionaire’s boots, for one
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.
I think those are called beltways
I really wanna know what they put in to Google to make it spit out that time estimate.
Probably a scripted route.
You can drive from gibraltar to Edinburgh and still be in UK
You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.
You’ve been turning right since at least '80…and you started far on the right already.
Hey!
Don’t forget Nixon.
Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.
The wheel and circular geometry are relatively new Inventions.
On a geologic timescale.
America’s been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.
They put one on a rural overpass where farmers have to cross all the time where I live. Everyone I know who lives there or farms there hates it.
Finally! People complain about them, but those people don’t understand how beneficial they are overall.
Yeah, I have a few in my Pennsyltucky town and over the years people have even learned not to stop at the yield signs!
Yielding is a woke liberal socialist concept
The American mind cannot comprehend nuance. It is all either stop or go. And now yield in Pennky.
They’ve started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.
Roundabouts are even better.
I didn’t realize there was a difference
Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.
Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.
I love roundabouts, but goddamn are they annoying when you’re stuck in a route starvation situation. I’ve had bad days when I’m stuck for close to 5 minutes at one near my house depending on time of day and approach route.
I mean sure, but I’ve been stuck at lights that long too
At least at a long red I can run it safely if there’s no one around (I had to do that at my last apartment complex because the secondary road had stupid long lights overnight, and mine regularly skipped my direction).
Sounds like you need a 2-laner and drivers who understand how they work
It’s already a 2/2.5 lane roundabout, but if you’re on entrance 3, while 1 and 2 are busy as hell, you may not have a window to safely go through.
This roundabout is at a major intersection just off of a freeway and between like 3 different shopping centers, so it’s awful to go through at rush hour. I’ve gotten good at eyeballing windows that scare the piss out of my wife in that roundabout.
There’s quite a few roundabouts near us that have traffic lights that only function during busy traffic. Usually only installed on the busy sides.
As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.
Do they have pit stops to recharge the batteries at Walmart? I would imagine there is also a burrito stand nearby
They’re not called burritos any more. They’re called Americas.
If you imply different you’ll get deported.
I give it 3 months until it’s renamed the Gulf of Burrito
Look kids, big ben! Parliament!
Big ben! Parlament!
I thought I’d look. That roundabout is still there. But, sadly it is now concrete and not grass in the middle…
Holy shit, they took the same route as my last bike tour!
Schaut mal, Kinder, Big Ben
Unexpected European Vacation quote.
How to correct (or exacerbate) uneven tire wear:
Drive around the other way at night when nobody sees it.
Or visit Brexitania!
Take this, Germany:
What in tarnation
Upvoted in horror
Because the (my) American mind in fact cannot even begin to comprehend this, I’ve freedomized it so the drivers are on the right:
I do this one in Australia mutiple times daily. It’s great.
that’s the isekai portal
Do you have to run it clockwise thrice on each circle to open it up?
I live in NL and we’re soaked in roundabouts, but this … this thing, it scares me.
wanted to look this up, here’ the link for anyone else who wants to see it
https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Magic+Roundabout,+Swindon,+UK/@51.5626913,-1.7719816,191
zooming it, it feels like a pinball playfield :)
The truly mind-bending part is that the inner circle runs backward.
What’s up with the strange assphault squares in between the inner and outer? Did they used to have grass or statues or something?
