It is quite weird seeing a roundabout diagrammed for driving on the right. It causes me significant cognitive dissonance.
I’m not sure about now, but when I was driving in NZ the rule at every intersection was give way to any car coming from your right (they drive on the left).
OTOH I almost mowed down some tourists here in Cambridge, UK because they diligently looked left before stepping onto the road, but I was approaching at speed from the right!
We have a figure-8 roundabout (2 consecutive circles), followed a quarter-mile later by a regular roundabout. The rule here is “Take a deep breath, close your eyes – and GO!” I liked it better when it was just a regular road with stop lights.
OMG – I can handle single lane roundabouts and that’s about it – if there are more lanes, no matter where I have to exit I only use the most outside one – or I would be circling for weeks and never find out again.
TBH – here in Switzerland, we don’t have really big ones, I think three lanes is the most I ever saw.
Loved your mirror remark. I live in a country where after WW II the UK-occupying forces encouraged roundabouts, then they were abandoned, when the traffic got to thick. Now, on smaller lanes they redo roundabouts … I am glad I do not drive anymore.
It is quite weird seeing a roundabout diagrammed for driving on the right. It causes me significant cognitive dissonance.
I’m not sure about now, but when I was driving in NZ the rule at every intersection was give way to any car coming from your right (they drive on the left).
OTOH I almost mowed down some tourists here in Cambridge, UK because they diligently looked left before stepping onto the road, but I was approaching at speed from the right!
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I have a panic attack whenever I approach a roundabout.
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…right or left
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kung ako’y mamatay,ako’y iyo at hanapin mo sa kabilang buhay. peklat sa kanang tuhod tanda ng ating kasaysayan.
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We have a figure-8 roundabout (2 consecutive circles), followed a quarter-mile later by a regular roundabout. The rule here is “Take a deep breath, close your eyes – and GO!” I liked it better when it was just a regular road with stop lights.
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Regular roads with stop lights I understand. Weird carnival rides in the middle of the street confuse me.
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When the guy who designed roundabouts was condemned to hell, Satan refused him. The devil can’t handle that kind of evil.
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On his way to hell, he most likely exited at the wrong spot.
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OMG – I can handle single lane roundabouts and that’s about it – if there are more lanes, no matter where I have to exit I only use the most outside one – or I would be circling for weeks and never find out again.
TBH – here in Switzerland, we don’t have really big ones, I think three lanes is the most I ever saw.
Always in the UK I am totally freaking out when driven in a car (I have never driven over there) and approaching a roundabout.
And they have this – the pure evil of roundabouts:
https://www.google.ch/search?newwindow=1&tbm=isch&q=roundabout+england&chips=q:roundabout+england,online_chips:magic+roundabout+swindon&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-tayKu8zdAhVO6KQKHYYVC_QQ4lYIKigD&biw=1920&bih=938&dpr=1
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Good god!! They’re hideous!!
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YES – I have never been there personally but the sight of the road sign let’s me deny this one.
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Loved your mirror remark. I live in a country where after WW II the UK-occupying forces encouraged roundabouts, then they were abandoned, when the traffic got to thick. Now, on smaller lanes they redo roundabouts … I am glad I do not drive anymore.
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Such a nightmare.
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“You’re the best, around,
gonna drive around n’ around n’ around.”
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