How can one be too stupid to use a roundabout?
Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
American here, I have no problem with them. There was a roundabout nearby in my city. When they unleashed it, the first driver brave enough to traverse it swerved off the road and died on the spot. It caused such a scene that the next 3 cars watching entered the wrong way and started to pile up. More cars piled up over the coming weeks, it couldn’t be taped off because the city service workers were unfortunately not Europeans and also could not traverse the labyrinth, they too piled up and died of starvation. Eventually it collapsed into a singularity under its growing weight (Americans are fat, so it was over the Chandresekar limit), cars add into the eternal swirl each day and emanate slowly as Hawking radiation. It’s quite beautiful to see.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Wolf@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘can’t figure it out’ as much as ‘don’t like change’. We’ve been putting them roundabouts in my shithole state and the number of people who complain about them boggles the mind. They will successfully navigate them, but they’ll whinge about it the whole time.
This happened to me just the other day as I was chauffeuring some good old boy around. Mind you he wasn’t even driving, but still had to let it be known that he disapproved. There was no traffic so I barely had to slow down to navigate the intersection and his input was “I hate these things, they just slow you down!”. I tried pointing out that if it had been a 4-way stop we would have had to stop, so it was actually faster this way. I don’t know if he was immune to logic or just unwilling to admit that something that was different than what he was used to had a benefit, but he just repeated that he hated them, so I dropped the subject.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I asked my neighbor, he said Europeans are stupid for driving in circles all day. So, that’s how.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
This was brilliant.
Bosht@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’ve never seen this copypasta and I love it.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
It came from the heart
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
for a country who’s core values is Car, they suck at driving
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.
Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Yep. This person gets it. The auto and gasoline industry basically ruined the environment and our culture so a few select people can make a few $$$.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Our core value isn’t Car, it’s “individual freedom, especially at the cost or inconvenience of others”. It just so happens that Car aligns pretty well with that
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
So interesting to me that Americans think being dependent on a car is “freedom”. Individual freedom should be the freedom to get to where you need to go with viable options to walk, bike, train, bus, tram, or drive.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I think you’re focusing too much on the “individual freedom” bit and missing the “at the cost or inconvenience of others” bit
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 hours ago
To be fair the mindset that a car means freedom is also quite common in Germany too. Especially in the countryside (tbf its often required if you dont want waste a lot of time due to shitty public transportation)
doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
We don’t often have other viable options. Long before most of us were born, the infrastructure was created so you could drive anywhere in the country, and other forms of transportation were marginalized.
Having a car in America is honestly the door to the greatest freedom of movement available to you. It’s no suprise people here start to conflate cars with freedom.
Getting most of us to realize the car centric world we live in restricts our freedom is like trying to wake someone up from the Matrix.
kreskin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.
Zink@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Yeah, you can’t drive like a dangerous asshole on your way to park your full size truck based SUV across two handicap spots if you don’t have a car in the first place!
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 12 hours ago
Muh freedum to die in a raging, alcohol sparked ball of fire, metal, bone, and blood.