Could someone flip this for those of us who drive on the right?
Mongostein 21 points 2 years ago
lycanrising 17 points 2 years ago
i was literally just thinking - the cars are driving on the left and the arrows are all driving on the right π
KoalaUnknown 14 points 2 years ago
-5 fps
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Milk_Sheikh 35 points 2 years ago
Traffic lights make roundabouts pointless, unless theyβre on a quick cycle used to βgroupβ cars entering a multi-lane roundabout.
If your population didnβt grow up with roundabouts though, and treats them like YOLO free for allsβ¦ then you might need lights
WanakaTree 9 points 2 years ago
My hometown installed roundabouts, with 4 way stop signs. Like, why.
psud 1 point 2 years ago
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
MonkderDritte 0 points 2 years ago
You meant, roundabouts make traffic lights pointless?
Milk_Sheikh 1 point 2 years ago
Dare I say this is a chicken:egg situation - which is making the other redundant?
thr0w4w4y2 16 points 2 years ago
i donβt think there are any. priority is based on how much you think you could take rival vehicles in a fight.
MonkderDritte 3 points 2 years ago
Swiss replaced most large interections with roundabouts in the whole country about 15 years ago. It worked out.
lycanrising 15 points 2 years ago
iβm sure you mean this seriously, it just tickles me.
kerrigan778 5 points 2 years ago
Have... Have you never seen a roundabout?
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BruceTwarzen 6 points 2 years ago
Most people i see on a daily basis can't hndle a normal 2 lane roundabout, ao i'm not sure if that would help
MonkderDritte 1 point 2 years ago
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?
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Gobbel2000 54 points 2 years ago
I enjoy this meme. Truly a Lemmy original.
ReiRose 1 point 2 years ago
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)
ChillPenguin 4 points 2 years ago
I'm loving it. Moar
dastechniker 51 points 2 years ago
there are many roundabouts in my American city and sometimes the Americans even use them correctly
JenTheWyvern 16 points 2 years ago
Of course I know how to use a roundabout! Step one: close eyes Step two: floor it Step three: pray Works every time!
dastechniker 10 points 2 years ago
You joke. I have personally seen someone use a roundabout like a launch ramp and survive.
AlligatorBlizzard 3 points 2 years ago
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.
dastechniker 2 points 2 years ago
πππππ so proud of you :)
deo 17 points 2 years ago
Ok. I get it. There are people in the Americas that are not from the US. But do you call people from the United Mexican States "Unitied Mexican Stateans"? No, that sounds ridiculous. I think that it's silly anyway to call everyone from either Americas "American" anyway; they are two different continents! "North American" or "South American" would be better, if you must get so broad with your adjectives (but really, continent-wide generalizations of people are rarely useful anyway). Sorry for the rant.
KrankyKong 10 points 2 years ago
There was a meme posted earlier that used the term "USAean". They were referring to that i think
Kedly 6 points 2 years ago
1: I was making a meta joke, and this point isnt really your fault
2: Canada takes up more of North America than the States does, and no one says "United States of Mexico", they say Mexico. Mexico is also not a continent that is shared with other Countries. In general I'm not going to fight people referring to the States as America, but you arguement is BAD
deo 3 points 2 years ago
It's not about size. It's the fact that the United States of America has the word "America" in it. And I don't refer to the US as "America" (unless I'm being cheeky, though in those cases, I spell it 'Murica), but I do refer to people from the US as "American".
And I know this is all kinda pedantic. I just think it's fun to talk about words. I get the feeling you read some snark into my pervious comment, but that really wasn't my goal.
Kedly 3 points 2 years ago
Oh, yeah, I totally misread your tone and point, my bad. You're right on there not really being an better word for People of the US than American, although now that I think about it "Statesman" sounds pretty nifty
Cqrd 0 points 2 years ago
I'm just being a little pedantic here, but Canada is only about 100k miles or so bigger than the US and much more of Canada is unlivable unless you count Texas and Florida as being unlivable, because I do.
There's also about 10x as many Americans as Canadians.
LinuxMint21 4 points 2 years ago
tbh "united mexican stateans" sounds cool, it should be used more
AngryCommieKender 2 points 2 years ago
Continent wide generalizations work just fine for 2 of them. Damn Australians an penguins are up to something, I'm sure of it!
MenacingPerson 1 point 2 years ago
I'd prefer calling them murican.
JudahBenHur 1 point 2 years ago
how cever!
candybrie 8 points 2 years ago
North America and South America are 2 continents in a lot of models. What definition are you using that has them as one? I'm always pretty skeptical of the ones that have Europe and Asia but then just America.
JamesStallion 2 points 2 years ago
les 'ricains
awwwyissss 16 points 2 years ago
I was waiting for this one lol
ZombiFrancis 4 points 2 years ago
Inevitable as the heat death of the universe.
Coskii 11 points 2 years ago
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.
Jiggle_Physics 10 points 2 years ago
Personally, I would have used the Swindon magic roundabout, but this works too.
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NeptuneOrbit 30 points 2 years ago
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.
Korne127 3 points 2 years ago
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.
pokemaster787 3 points 2 years ago
Pretty sure the time is just edited, unless there's some way to tell Google "Yes have me circle this roundabout a bazillion times"
MonkCanatella 3 points 2 years ago
what's the origin of this meme? I've seen several versions of this same theme
Mongostein 2 points 2 years ago
The biggest my city has is 2 lanes and 5 exits. Thatβs pretty easy; 1st or 2nd exit is ok in the right lane, anything else in the left, always yield to left lane.
This 4 lane 6 exit shit is wild. Oh, and you drive on the left for some extra βwhat the fuck?β
Distant_Foreground 3 points 2 years ago
Nothing wrong with driving on the left, we've been doing it since before cars. It helps to keep your sword arm closer to opposing traffic.
Mongostein 2 points 2 years ago
Didnβt say there was anything wrong with it, but whichever side you learn on itβs not going to be an easy switch.
Is that really why? Wild
Bartsbigbugbag 1 point 2 years ago
Speak for yourself, righty.
Churbleyimyam 2 points 2 years ago
Thank you. This is the meme that Lemmy has needed for the last week.
Atelopus-zeteki 1 point 2 years ago
Inconceivable!!
FartsWithAnAccent 1 point 2 years ago
We have shitloads of roundabouts all over the country but OK.
While we're on the subject though, they're fucking great!
Hugh_Jeggs 23 points 2 years ago
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
FartsWithAnAccent 3 points 2 years ago
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_Biscuit 1 point 2 years ago
It'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.
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I used to live nearby! Loved that silly thing, just donβt treat it like one big roundabout - itβs six chained roundabouts that you can use individually; both green and red routes are valid and legal for the same destination:
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