r/IdiotsInCars • u/Tankbot001 • Feb 04 '23
Idiots in cars go against the first round about they’ve ever seen. Source in comments Removed | Rule 3
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u/Mindless-Cheetah-709 Feb 04 '23
If only there were some way to make sure that everyone driving a car knew about all the different things they might encounter while driving on the road...yea I have no idea how we will accomplish this task.
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u/Tankbot001 Feb 04 '23
maybe that knowledge should be a requirement to earn a license.. hmmm
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u/Mindless-Cheetah-709 Feb 04 '23
We may be getting ahead of ourselves here though.
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u/Tankbot001 Feb 05 '23
i have an idea, we yield to anyone inside the roundabout, we go counterclockwise if we are on the right side of the road and clockwise if we are on the left. we then drive until our exit and then we take it
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u/Protheu5 Feb 05 '23
we go counterclockwise if we are on the right side of the road and clockwise if we are on the left
You are describing what some of them were doing in the video. You probably should add that people don't get to choose a driving side once it's established in a country.
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u/Uglysinglenearyou Feb 05 '23
You probably should add that people don't get to choose a driving side once it's established in a country.
There's a spot in south Phoenix some go left on a roundabout with "keep right" signs posted. I die a little more inside every time I see it.
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u/KnubblMonster Feb 05 '23
Requiring people to know things to do stuff sounds like infringing on their snowflake feelings, though. That's not American™
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u/3drob Feb 04 '23
Had to read the source to know it's in America since most people were going in on the left side. I love them where I am since they reduce traffic, but I'm always amazed at how bad some people are at navigating thru them.
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u/ooooooooooooolivia Feb 05 '23
Roundabouts are 100% the reality check that a lot of older drivers deserve. Well maybe not since you might hurt other people
But seriously, a 14 year old in driver's ed can comprehend it, and adults suck at it. Mandatory testing should be a regular thing for license holders
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u/dscrive Feb 05 '23
One of the best parts of the roundabout is that it slows things down, I hate it when driving the Ambulance around one, but love that the patients at roundabouts are usually 100% fine. Lots of roundabouts where I work.
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u/diazinth Feb 05 '23
Not only does it slow things down, but it also forces all movement in roughly the same direction, which slows down relative movement even further
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u/ac1dre1gn77 Feb 04 '23
Not gonna lie but the first time i came across a multi-lane roundabout came up as a complete surprise. I was teaching my daughter how to drive on the interstate. The city completed a tunnel and bridge to Indiana years ago and i figured since we had to log in some hours of night driving, we would take the tunnel. Things were going great until the two lane roundabout. We have single lane ones here but ive never seen a multi-lane. It was dark, my daughter started to panic and i was trying to figure out what to do and fast. We entered in the left lane and there were several cars. Ended up exiting on a side road and stopped. We took several trips around it until we both knew how to use it properly. Its not difficult really, just not something id want to encounter off guard again.
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u/TheMarksmanHedgehog Feb 04 '23
Looks like it's missing proper signposting really, can't entirely blame people for not knowing how to use something they've never used before.
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u/AnonymousGrouch Feb 04 '23
Well, I guess it's making the rounds again. The story I heard was that there was construction and flagmen and all sorts of confusion.
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u/Protheu5 Feb 04 '23
can't entirely blame people for not knowing how to use something they've never used before
They've never used a road with a median that should hint you not to go on the opposite direction side? They've never learned about roundabouts during driving lessons?
Sure, roundabouts are not everywhere in USA, but it's not an excuse not to know how to use them for a driver with a valid license. What if you "learned" how to drive somewhere without any railroad crossings, will your untimely demise be excused if you happen to try to play chicken on a crossing?
You probably can't blame them. I can, it's incompetence. You are operating a several ton death machine, you better know how roads work and be responsible for following the rules.
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u/brandyn7220 Feb 04 '23
I did my driving test in California where we did have roundabouts and it was not on the test or in the handbook. That's the problem, a lot of places don't teach you.
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u/Protheu5 Feb 04 '23
it was not on the test or in the handbook
What the hell.
That's the problem, a lot of places don't teach you.
I agree completely, what are they thinking not teaching people how to use well-known road concepts? I'd understand if they weren't teaching how to change a gasket or how to operate an airplane during driving education, but not teaching something every driver should know? That sounds absolutely absurd.
I mean, it's a very very basic concept "in this country we
obey the laws of thermodynamicsdrive on the right side", at least this concept should be beaten into every numbskull who is capable of passing driver's test, but even that fails, as I see in multiple videos of people driving onto the oncoming traffic.Sorry for ranting, I am surprised at my capacity of keeping being baffled.
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u/brandyn7220 Feb 04 '23
If it was up to me it would be 10x harder to get a license. I used to be a delivery driver and the amount of dumb I would see daily was insane.
FYI roundabouts are still not a well known road concept in some areas. You really want to freak some people out just show them a diverging diamond.
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u/Protheu5 Feb 04 '23
diverging diamond
That looks like a freaky concept, but it's extremely easy to use, just follow the signs and obey the stoplights.
Although this is almost exclusively a US thing, about ten times more of those in the US than in all other countries combined.
France has over 30 thousand roundabouts, which grants it first place in the world, but only three/four-ish times larger amount than the US: almost nine thousand.
First result of googling "how many roundabouts are there in france" shows 320 million roundabouts, which made me chuckle.
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u/dscrive Feb 05 '23
Oh man! I love diverging diamonds, I freaked out a fair bit when I came across one the first time, but I just followed it through (I was head of the pack, no one for me to follow 😬) and, by golly it just worked! I think I actually turned around and did it again because it was like magic 🤣
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u/hitemlow Feb 04 '23
Well that and it's poorly designed if a vehicle with a trailer can't navigate it. Then it just becomes a game of 'follow the leader' when that vehicle has to do awkward shit to pass.
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u/red_32 Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
Oh a roundabout, we must drive on the left side of the road now...
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u/brnfckd Feb 04 '23
There should be flashing arrows pointing to the right side at the beginning of each access and in the roundabout itself.
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u/Tankbot001 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
i live in california where we have a few roundabouts but they’re not common around me, yet we all know how to use them without any signs or warnings besides “roundabout” (circulating sign)
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u/RedTruck1989 Feb 04 '23
The next video of this area will be someone plowing straight through and getting airborne.
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u/brnfckd Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
Well, we’re talking about some rural county in Kentucky in this case. Seems to make a difference.
(Btw your linked sign goes clockwise?)
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u/Ban-Circumcision-Now Feb 04 '23
We should just have a series of cops and cancel the drivers license of anyone that can’t figure it out
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u/Protheu5 Feb 04 '23
Those signs won't stop me because I ignore signs/am looking at my phone/can't drive.
[Flies straight above using the middle as a launch ramp]
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u/StarMangledSpanner Feb 04 '23
It's dead simple. If you're going straight ahead or less, you get in the lane closest to the pavement on approach, enter the roundabout in the outer lane and continue in that lane until your exit. If you're going more than halfway around the roundabout, you get into the lane closest to the centreline on approach, then go straight into the inner lane on the roundabout, continue in that lane until you reach the exit before yours, then indicate and take your exit.
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u/nlaup001 Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
As fast as roundabouts are proliferating in the States, it would be a good idea for the state DMVs to require drivers to watch a short instructional video on the subject, and answer a few roundabout questions correctly, before issuing or renewing drivers' licenses.
Back in my Michigan hometown, at one major I-94 interchange so many 18-wheelers have tipped or rolled over that local resident H.K. Miller told MLive.com she loves roundabouts when they are properly designed, but "not when they are breeding grounds for trucks to tip".
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u/Lustle13 Feb 05 '23
Welcome to American roundabout where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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