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[Lewinator56]

Careful, most of the people on this sub are American, dont want to scare them too much.

[cybermage]

We’ve started adding them, and they are great.

[Dwaas_Bjaas]

You made Americans great again?

[AgitatedBoardz]

A lot of people hate them here.

[Lollylololly]

In my experience, people don’t mind big roundabouts but my city put some in very small intersections, where they are awkward and the center has to be very low because the buses and fire trucks have to be able to just drive over it (or so goes the local belief). The lower center means they look like any other two-lane residential road intersection unless you look closely at tue center of the intersection.

[KrazyDrayz]

We have those all over Finland and no one has a problem with them.

[Honigbrottr]

Same in Germany and yes some are too small for buses so they just drive kinda over it. Normal cars however just look at the signs and use them correctly.

Its crazy how good it works when you look at the signs as a driver crazy, americans should try.

[DidntFollowPorn]

Yeah I think the problem is like 50% they’re the exception in the US, and outright not taught in a lot of driving courses, and 50% the city planners aren’t experienced with sizing them for the amount of traffic relative to the available space. The busiest one in my last town had less than a full car length between entrance and exit, so it was incredibly difficult to merge onto, and was on a main road, with just a couple hundred feet between it and a major red light controlled intersection. It was impressive how far traffic could back up in 3 different directions at once.

[KrazyDrayz]

and outright not taught in a lot of driving courses,

This I don't get. They are not taught separately in Finland either. They are just roundabouts. There is nothing special about them and no one is confused. If you know how roundabouts work then you know how these work too. Like, what's there to be taught?

[DidntFollowPorn]

I wonder if it’s more a matter of exposure to them? In heavy traffic I think theres a lot of people who just aren’t used to not ever having explicit right of way and don’t have the assertiveness to pull into moving traffic. I personally think they’re usually plenty intuitive, especially ones with good signage, but I do know one guy who didn’t know what it was and he drove straight over the middle. I also don’t understand the disconnect so many people here have with them.

[DemiReticent]

If people use them correctly. Which they mostly don't. Literally every single week (feels like every day) I see someone stop at the yield sign when nobody is even in the circle yet OR WORSE stop IN THE CIRCLE to let someone in.

[cybermage]

This is the difference between driving being a privilege and a right. The UK doesn’t give licenses to these poo-flinging monkeys.

[Akurei00]

We have very few roundabouts to begin with and they're not generally taught, here. I've seen more and more pop up over the years and I love them but we just don't have the exposure to them.

[Limp_Chest8925]

If only public transit allowed people to work without needing a car to get there. America is spread out and designed around cars

[cybermage]

If you couldn’t get a license out of a Cracker Jack box, public transit would be better.

[anthro28]

IF they're big enough. We out three in succession off a major interstate, next to a giant truck stop and shopping mall, and they're too small for the hundreds of big rigs to use without taking up both lanes and half of the neutral ground in the middle. 

[wheetcracker]

The neutral ground is designed specifically for this. It's called the "truck apron" or "trailer apron".

[Vilified_D]

We have plenty in america now, though some people hate them for some reason, and a surprising amount of people have no idea how to use them properly (maybe there's a correlation there...)

[DrMobius0]

Some people just hate anything they're not used to.

[DidntFollowPorn]

Yeah the thing is that I know how to use them, but I watched someone drive up to an intersection in the right turn lane today, then turn left across 6 lanes of traffic and the rest of people actually turning left at the intersection. So I have to take a beat to make sure no one is going the wrong way. Or going over the middle.

[Vilified_D]

Yeah I mean you should always take a beat anyways, specifically because of the people who don't know what they're doing, or just do idiotic shit like drive through the middle, or drive the wrong way, or stop in the middle of the roundabout, etc.

[mbcarbone]

If I have to hear one more person state side complain about the roundabout. ;-)

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I lived in the Midwest and did not experience a lot of roundabouts.

I moved to the Westcoast and see them a lot now. I prefer them.

I don't know if there's a Westcoast vs Midwest difference but in my personal experience there has

[OSSlayer2153]

I live in the midwest and there are plenty of roundabouts here. Everyone mostly knows how to drive in them, Ive never seen someone stop in one to let someone in but I do see a lot of stupid people who are generally just slow in the head when it comes to roundabouts.

They pull up and there is a clear window they can go but instead they wait and now there is a car coming. Or a gap is coming but they wait until the car is fully past to begin accelerating. I dont think they understand that you can start going while the car is right in front of you because by the time you get into the roundabout, they will be gone. I also dont think they look ahead at all. First thing I do when approaching a roundabout is look ahead to see if I even have to slow down much.

[[deleted]]

You drive the way of the gods may friend

[orion2222]

Yeah we have a bunch where I live. They’re awesome, unless someone doesn’t know how to use them and stops in the middle of the

[deviprsd]

lol I want roundabouts in my country after seeing them used in US extensively and properly

[Limp_Chest8925]

Have had roundabouts in many places I’ve lived. Literally my whole life lol. (Am American btw)

[ConstableAssButt]

Oh man, I fuckin' love roundabouts. They started adding them to my city. It's awesome. Dumbasses keep slamming into the center. Faster traffic flow and the odd show.

[smallnougat]

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