It aint that hard, fuck wits

Just go right over the center and see if you can clear C and D.

I've seen this so often before and I still don't understand why they didn't just build an ordinary roundabout. It's just six roads that meet there. That's not beyond ordinary roundabout capabilities. Who said "you know what, let's just do a circular arrangement of five roundabouts here, that's so much better than what people are used to"?

That roundabout needs a speaker constantly playing Entry of the Gladiators on repeat

Then you see the cars completely ignoring the sub-circles and driving over them or backwards to the arrows.

It's really five regular roundabouts circling one central roundabout.

No one will ever be able to invade the UK, they'll get stuck in this horror.

People will unironically see this and proclaim that it's actually not that complicated...

Holy hell

Left side driving should be illegal

I drove through that one, not easy. I prefer the turbine design we use in Germany.

And that's why turn-by-turn navigation systems phrase it as "take the third exit from the roundabout" these days.

All cars will yield to a bicycle in the UK, because less protected members of the road traffic always take priority.

I'm a daily cyclist and I think I'd be terrified to bike through a full roundabout. They're absolutely marvelous designs for throughput that doesn't require complex signal automation, but the flip side of that is they're pretty hostile if you're not a motor vehicle. Any truly good roundabout design should include pedestrian and cycle paths along the periphery that have priority when crossing the circles entrances.

Drivers seem to love complaining about drivers

requiring everyone to do so to participate.

Bus, taxi, bike, walk, whatever.

I vehemently disagree that everyone has a 'right' to have a license, as so many argue.

Biggest problem I encounter is people failing to signal their exit

So I end up being C because I yield to a bunch of bozos who didn’t communicate they were’t going to come my way

Ah yes, car E driven by Leeeerrroooooyyyy Jenkins

The only real problem I regularly encounter is on two lane roundabouts.

If you want to take the first exit you need to enter in the passenger side lane.

If you want to take any exit after the second you need to enter in the driver's side lane.

If you enter in the passenger side lane, you must take the first or second exit. Taking any exit after the second from the "outside" lane is gonna cause an accident.

I see this happen a few times a year. It's so common that most drivers foresee it.

That's because Americans don't know how to use them, once you live in a place where people use them OPs picture becomes your issue and you never see yours.

Or badly designed ones with a combo of yield and stop signs that effectively prevent the people with the stop sign from ever proceeding

Some larger roundabouts work that way. Most (in)famously the arc de triomphe in Paris.

Where I live there are two of these

"if I randomly stop in the middle of the road so another car can get in, the car right behind me probably won't hit me"

Bus drivers have entered the chat.

I've been car A and still had car D behind me beep at me. We hate car D.

There's no pedestrian in the image.

Cars are bad enough as it is that we don't have to imagine more problems with them.

Were this a 2 lane roundabout, car d would be changing lanes to bypass car c, nearly striking that pedestrian

Pedestrian would be safer crossing somewhere with a pedestrian crossing

A pedestrian would cross between C and D, or even behind D.

etermined to keep my head up high, but it gets hard when I’m deep in a

Yeah I'm a fan.

My city has no traffic lights. Roundabouts everywhere. It's not a particularly big city.

There are some problems but in general I think everyone gets where they're going a lot quicker.

you aught to try the kind that’s 3 lanes going to 5 different places and a tram running through the middle!

(this was the most dangerous intersection in my city for a while… they’ve added traffic lights… i do also very much love roundabouts)

I have The Perfect Round-A-Bout for you.

It's insane. It's also brilliant.

But they are on the right side.

Signals are helpful indicators, but I rarely commit until I see someone's front wheel change direction.

You're probably already watching people's wheels without realising. It's the first real tell.

Traffic circles are safer, reduce maintenance costs, slows the fucking speeders and more efficient than your fucking stop sign and signal intersections.

I'll just put this here so people can actually get som real info and not the nonsense you are spewing.

Better than 4-way stop signs, fuck that noise.

Damn, how'd you train a donkey to drive?

Roundabouts are not just for efficiency, they are for safety. A regular 4-way intersection introduces multiple conflicts between cars turning left and cars coming from the opposite direction.

A roundabout only has one conflict for each connecting street, and the right of way is clearly defined.

None of you guys would survive Iran

the sequel to Michigan left

Those crosswalks are too close to the circle, move that back and remove the stop signs.

That’s a traffic circle, they all suck.

Just give the one finger salute.

There are specific times when this might be appropriate. For example if I am turning off at the exit after where the car is joining from, I can see they're indicating to making a move around the inner part of the roundabout which is clear, and if I proceeded I would join a queue for my exit and block them. I'll usually stop short and gesture they move in.

But otherwise it's usually safer all round to stick to the rules.

this just here, we don't have many roundabouts but, the amount of drivers who think it's a race to get from point a to point b is unreasonable. I'm not about to enter the roundabout as car c if the pink or yellow car is flying with no indicators.

C has plenty of space to be out of the way before pink and yellow can catch up to it.

ACAB

All Circles Are Beyond-my-ability-to-comprehend - the cop probably

These idiotic roundabouts used to be everywhere in France. Most of them have been converted to inside-has-right-of-way but a few of the old ones still exist, with traffic lights on the inside.

That’s called a “rotary”.

Right, that's the funny thing about roundabouts. They're a marvelous solution to local motor vehicle throughput. That become completely unnecessary if your traffic is anything besides motor vehicles. In fact, for bikes and pedestrians and anyone else who can look at each other eye to eye and even just talk to one another if need be, no signals or signs are necessary at all.

I'm waiting til it becomes normal for individuals to use old school buses as their commuter vehicles. It's the inevitable destination of the car size war.

Well yes, but actually bikes wouldn't even need a roundabout with rules like this in the first place.

That's not how roundabouts work. They're really simple:

1. Look left and enter when clear
2. Look straight until you exit

That's it. This only gets complicated if traffic is backed up, in which case everyone is going slow enough for it to not matter.

My mom taught me to never trust a turn signal (or lack of one)

You not following the rules because you assume everyone else isn't following the rules is why no one is following the rules...

Depends on the size of the roundabout. For one big enough they could both join simultaneously and maintain a safe distance, that's fine. If not, if you drive on the left the one on the right has priority and vice versa for the rest of the world.

In fact it's only a problem if people arrive simultaneously at all junctions, since now there's no person to the right of everyone.

In this case usually everyone stops (unless one of the cars is a BMW or audi) and then someone will start to move first. After which normal operational rules are restored.