Man, as I’m reading through the comments more and more, the happier I become for selling my car. Did it years ago, never going back. Still rent lorries for deliveries from time to time though.
Some people don’t know how they work. But also don’t learn.
My state is installing them everywhere despite people not knowing how to drive (only state in the union without compulsory driver’s ed). So it’s very common to enter a roundabout and have another car go the wrong way, because they wanted to go left.
I just sit with my horn depressed until they back up. Sometimes it takes a while.
Do the road designers cheap out?
- The few roundabouts a couple decades ago may have been ambiguous but every roundabout I’ve seen for many years is clearly marked on the approach so you can’t screw up the direction.
- I understand someone unfamiliar may stop unexpectedly or not understand how to exit, but how do they screw up the direction?
- Even changing lanes which used to be where people screwed up a lot, recent roundabouts are clearly marked what lane you should be in and the lane markers lead to the exit: how can people not understand signs saying this lane for this road?
If your road designers aren’t following these conventions, that may be a contributing factor
I regularly take a busy road with a two-lane roundabout marked this way and you can be sure that people will ignore these lane markers. I’m honestly surprised I haven’t seen a fender bender there before.
I don’t think there is a roundabout anywhere in Kentucky, or at least I’ve never seen one. So when I got to Fort Lewis, WA and was driving across base I came up to one and had zero fucking clue what to do. I started at it for about 10 seconds and watched another car or two go into it and kinda figured it out, but it was the most alien thing I had ever seen.
A straightabout.
I do that all the time…
Got a few roundabouts in an old residential neighborhood with narrow streets near me. There’s nothing in the middle and the curb is so shallow, it’s tempting to drive right through them
Put it on the bucket list 😜
Saw a guy do this on one that had been put in the intersection of a couple of country roads in North Georgia for some odd reason. Car hit it at speed, came off the ground nearly a foot, absolutely destroyed the undercarriage when it landed. Legend! Oil and coolant and likely fuel everywhere. I did not check the driver before rolling off as he came out cussing a storm about who put that there?
On a school trip we were following a beige mini metro down the road.
We got to the roundabout. He indicated right, started to turn right, realised he was at a roundabout, lurched left, and then gloriously beached his car on the flower beds in the middle of it.
Once you get your bus pass they should just take your car off you for the safety of everyone.
I have seen someone back up in a roundabout because they missed their exit, and I’ve also seen someone enter a roundabout, and go the wrong way to make a u-turn.
How do you operate a car with multiple wheels and not understand how a circle works?
Can I wager a guess? If someone are custom to driving in a country with opposite driving direction, the second scenario seems like a common mistake.
They literally made the most plow-throughable roundabout on my town. Nearly completely flat and ripe for riding. No obstacles at all
the most plow-throughable
ripe for riding
Got ya feeling something?
There are a lot of ‘mini’ roundabouts in my country that are fully flat to the ground. The point is to set the rules for right of way, entering and exiting, indication etc in a way people find familiar (we have lots of roundabouts). Just one roundabout sign at each entrance with standard road markings and everyone knows what’s up.
Depending on road size, it is for trucks to be able to turn
Become ungovernable just like that dude
I still think there’s a contributing factor that the road builders did not plant shrubs. There needs to be a clearer interruption in the line of sight
Plus why is the entry straight ahead? It should more clearly turn to funnel the car into the right direction
you should drive slower
It’s always easy to say people don’t make mistakes but the reality is they do. They will drive the speed the road is designed for. They will lose focus. They will be distracted. Similarly road maintenance will be skipped or delayed and there will be times with no paint on the road or missing signs.
We can’t afford to build roads for people’s ideal behavior but need to account for their actual behavior, and need roads work safely despite human failures.
A clear line of sight makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. A straight approach makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. A dirty windshield or excessive headlight glare makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. An unfamiliar road or a couple seconds of inattentiveness is all it takes before they figure it out too late. Meanwhile something as cheap and simple as shrubs interrupts their line of sight from way back to alert them that something is different
there are signs
Me in Forza Horizon
Me in ETS2
I am amazed by how much of the car seems to go so far. Surely this is not real, right? (Can’t look at it closely enough on my phone)
It’s a real thing that happened in the town of Rąbień in Poland, a drunk driver was speeding down a road, hit a roundabout and flew 60 metres through the air, before landing in a graveyard
Miraculously, the driver made it out alive, but the car was totalled
Stunt jump completed
Ah that’s one of them newfangled jumpabouts I keep hearing about?
This summer, we were driving out of our neighborhood and came across a car that had all 4 tires completely blown out and destroyed. I was baffled at how that could happen, since it was a pretty calm spot of road. Maybe the police had put down spike strips to stop a fleeing car?
Then on my way back into the neighborhood I went around our round about and saw the tire tracks of a car that went right through the middle but then left the ground. The dude must have done exactly what was in this GIF!
They never show the full version of this gif, where you can see the elevated section of road the driver is aiming for. Have people seriously never seen a highway overpass? Do you guys just assume that every highway uses offramps instead of jumps?
of course they don’t show it he misses the boost panel
I think he got enough of a boost.
Johhnnnnyyyyyyyy~~
~~yyyy Two CellosSee how annoying roundabouts can be when people just want to plow forward in a straight line? Roundabouts are such an inconvenience. Gotta slow down & pay attention & go around an obstacle & all that shit. TRAFFIC CALMING? What’s that? You know when you tell people to calm down, that only makes them angrier, right?
/s
There is 5 roundabouts from the motorway to my home town. About 5 minute drive. 2 of those annoy me because they were not needed and do slow donw traffic. 3 were needed and are good.
A “not needed roundabout” is a new concept to me. Are they in a straight street?
Prwtty much. Straight road with an offshoot to a fucking golf course. Not that many people go there but they needed a roundabout I guess.
It’s like he knew he was supposed to be setting an example but buckled under pressure.
On Christmas day years ago, I was driving behind a very old lady who did this. She probably didn’t drive much and had likely never seen a roundabout before. I remember her white frizzy hair and the back of her SUV was packed full of presents. She got jostled around quite a bit when she hopped the curb, but she committed and drove straight over it. lol
