gmtomIt is truly magic
FozzyOsbourneHaving driven on that magic roundabout as well as the one in Swindon I can tell you that most minds can’t comprehend them
Cloudless ☼I don’t mind the complexity of it, but they need to make it bigger to make lane changes possible. That and experienced drivers are too impatient for new drivers to figure it out.
BruceTwarzenMost people i see on a daily basis can't hndle a normal 2 lane roundabout, ao i'm not sure if that would help
Traffic inside the roundabout has priority, meaning you wait to go in until no one comes from left (roundabouts are always counter-clock). That difficult?
Yeah, everyone knows how a roundabout works but if you’ve never seen several of them combined like this then it can take you by surprise if you were just expecting one big one
Korne127I do not understand :(
I think the joke is people keep posting the “you can drive x hours and still be in y location”, but really, you can drive indefinitely in one neighborhood, without every leaving. You could stay in the roundabout for as long as you want, just like you can drive from South Africa to Finland, or whatever.
Yes, that was my first thought as well.
But the Google Maps screenshot says 0.2 mile which means that it’s just exactly one time around in the roundabout and not insanely often, so that’s not the case here.
I looked up the roundabout to see if there’s any reason why you’d need so long (e.g. it’s not really for driving and you could be 1mph/kmh or so, but it looks like you can drive normally on it.
But the Google Maps screenshot says 0.2 mile which means that it’s just exactly one time around in the roundabout and not insanely often, so that’s not the case here.
I looked up the roundabout to see if there’s any reason why you’d need so long (e.g. it’s not really for driving and you could be 1mph/kmh or so, but it looks like you can drive normally on it.
Pretty sure the time is just edited, unless there’s some way to tell Google “Yes have me circle this roundabout a bazillion times”
are you American?
Gobbel2000I enjoy this meme. Truly a Lemmy original.
It’s a step up from beans & jeans, for sure.
Shhhh! Just to mention it might bring it back!
Are you saying you’re only…interested in important updates?
Not at all!! I’m being a bit tongue in cheek really. I enjoy these things, but the jeans one went on a bit long.
(Que someone to create a car driving around some jeans for 18 hours to shock yoga pants wearers)
Ah sorry there was an older Lemmy original meme. Was a typical survey question, one of the options was “only alert me on important updates” or some such. Spawned like two straight weeks of stroganoff memes. Google doesn’t search lemmy well or I’d link you the page
I see. I joined during the exodus (and the three days no poop)
I’m loving it. Moar
The redditor mind cannot comprehend this
I was waiting for this one lol
Inevitable as the heat death of the universe.
Atelopus-zetekiInconceivable!!
CoskiiMy American city has at least 2 roundabouts in it, and I happen to get confused by at least one of them every time I’m trying to get somewhere.
Based and freedom-pilled. Ignorance out for America, brother comrade.
To be fair, it’s the most American roundabout ever. Changing numbers of lanes, stop lights around it, and completely unintuitive. I seem to always be one lane more to the right of where I thought I needed to be.
FartsWithAnAccentWe have shitloads of roundabouts all over the country but OK.
You have failed to notice that the Magic Roundabout isn’t a roundabout
It’s six roundabouts
Your entire puny American consciousness would literally disintegrate on arrival at the first one
Two way street roundabouts aren't even a thing I've seen in person, ours all seem to be one way, so this would definitely be weird to me.
Digestive_BiscuitIt’s more confusing looking at it from a top view. When driving it’s loads easier. I was expecting a mind numbing event first time I drove it but it wasn’t that bad really.
DasTechnikerthere are many roundabouts in my American city and sometimes the Americans even use them correctly
Of course I know how to use a roundabout!
Step one: close eyes
Step two: floor it
Step three: pray
Works every time!
You joke. I have personally seen someone use a roundabout like a launch ramp and survive.
I’ve seen the end result of someone trying to use a roundabout as a launch ramp. I don’t think their car, stuck in the middle of the roundabout, survived.
We have a roundabout with a pond. The ducks like it, and they’re really disturbed
I learned to drive in a town where the on ramp to the highway came out of a roundabout so I actually did some learning! :)
👏👏👏👏👏 so proud of you :)
I have one within 5 minutes heading to the beach and you can always see the confused travelers looping lol
1 min without traffic
samus12345
European Vacation - Roundabout
what’s the origin of this meme? I’ve seen several versions of this same theme
spicy pancakethey keep getting progressively more unhinged and im on board
they keep getting progressively more unhinged
Also see: England.
I used to live nearby! Loved that silly thing, just don’t treat it like one big roundabout - it’s seven chained roundabouts that you can use individually, both green and red routes are valid and legal for the same destination:
Did you Photoshop out all the traffic lights??
pancakesWhere we’re going, we don’t need traffic lights
i don’t think there are any. priority is based on how much you think you could take rival vehicles in a fight.
Traffic lights make roundabouts pointless though, unless they’re on a quick cycle used to ‘group’ cars entering a multi-lane roundabout.
If your population didn’t grow up with roundabouts though, and treats them like YOLO free for alls… then you might need lights
My hometown installed roundabouts, with 4 way stop signs. Like, why.
My town built lots of roundabouts, and the population are used to them, but they have a problem with unbalanced traffic, and it’s been growing, so traffic has been getting more unbalanced - more people coming from directions the engineers who planned the road didn’t expect
The real problem, of course, is that though they are trying they are not able to replace the traffic with mass transit. The buses get stuck in the same traffic, light rail seems impossible, even with political will
You meant, roundabouts make traffic lights pointless?
You meant, pointless makes roundabouts traffic lights?
No, lol.
tetris11You pointless, roundabout meaning traffic light pleb?
Dare I say this is a chicken:egg situation - which is making the other redundant?
BaŝtoSaving the operational costs of traffic lights is the biggest pro of roundabouts. Cars inside a roundabout always have priority and cars who wanna enter it have to yield.
Swiss replaced most large interections with roundabouts in the whole country about 15 years ago. It worked out.
In the US, red lights are apparently optional
i’m sure you mean this seriously, it just tickles me.
Have… Have you never seen a roundabout?