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xkcd #2932: Driving PSA (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (17 children)

Roundabouts ftw. Best traffic invention to beat time traveling assassins.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Except the ones with two lanes that can both exit or continue

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (15 children)

I have never seen a roundabout here in Australia that allows for these sorts of conflicting movements, that would be asinine. Are you saying there's multiple lanes that can exit or go straight such that someone in the inside lane can turn out in front of someone continuing around in the outside lane? Is this a North American thing? Of course that would result in accidents, don't build your bloody roundabouts like that!!

I drive through three lane (six lane road) roundabouts all the time and no one gets hurt. In fact I have to drive through two such roundabouts to get to the nearest freeway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Right near my old house, dubbed the "Suicide Circle" for how everyone drives through it seemingly unaware of any other drivers on the road.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't see any conflicting movements here. I have a roundabout almost exactly like this just around the corner. It's not complicated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's more the amount of choke points that turn to gridlock at rush hour. That plus it's the Midwest so 85% of the population doesn't understand how they work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think it's probably got more to do with the drivers. There are plenty of roundabouts like this where I am in Aus, and they get used just fine. Over here they have a far lower rate of accidents than other types of intersections. We never have 4 way stops either, we just put a roundabout there.

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