In Taiwan, we do roundabouts all wrong. We add traffic lights in the middle of them.
You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.
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jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Then what are they for?
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
No clue. It’s awful. Sometimes they add these roundabouts under bridges and it causes traffic jams because people end up blocking the road. So to combat this, every intersection has a traffic cop.
ktowner15@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ಠ_ಠ
slingstone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’ve started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Roundabouts are even better.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love roundabouts, but goddamn are they annoying when you’re stuck in a route starvation situation. I’ve had bad days when I’m stuck for close to 5 minutes at one near my house depending on time of day and approach route.
rektdeckard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I didn’t realize there was a difference
pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Laughs in Australian
Acidbath@lemmy.world 8 months ago
are we talking about feet hours or meter hours?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Behold: Decimal time
Burninator05@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Schaut mal, Kinder, Big Ben
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unexpected European Vacation quote.
noMoYnks@lemmings.world 8 months ago
To be fair germans would probably drive that long just for the pleasure of polluting the air
saimen@feddit.org 8 months ago
It’s actually illegal to drive a car without the purpose of reaching a destination in Germany.
_absolve723@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
lol what really?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 8 months ago
So do Americans.
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Can easily do this around the Arc of Triumph
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 months ago
You mean Arc of Trump?
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Paint It Black starts playing in french
capuccino@lemmy.world 8 months ago
do germans move their cars like the flintstones how do they magane have fuel/battery for 72hrs?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Easy, just pick a roundabout that goes downhill.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Just add a long range tank in the trunk.
A normal car can do 1600 km or 1000 miles on a tank. By normal of course I mean diesel-powered German executive class sedan or wagon with an 80 liter tank.
At the low speeds of the roundabout, you might use more fuel, so maybe it’ll only do 1200 km on a tank. Just use a long range tank and you’re golden. They use them in endurance racing, or to go illegally fast for extended periods of time in Cannonball Runs.
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Their cars run off centrifugal force.
Lemzlez@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a few diesel cars that can reach that distance on one tank (though it requires hypermiling)
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I did not know
hypermiling
means making post-purchase changes to your car to make it more efficient. Why wouldn’t manufacturers sell them in better quality to begin with?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Two words: German Efficiency
capuccino@lemmy.world 8 months ago
it’s a flintstones thing then
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I hear their gas devices are very efficient.
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Since you’re in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!
fading_person@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Mr bean, is that you?
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You guys are gonna love canberra
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
American here, kills me every time it’s not that difficult!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 months ago
We have one of these in rural middle of bum fucked and nowhere America.
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Traffic control for deer
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Is there a joke I’m missing out on?
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t even have any nice landmarks on the drive, like Big Ben.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I navigate by Walmarts
rmuk@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Parliament.
Entitle9294@lemmy.world 8 months ago
big ben, parliament!
uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
German who lives in USA, they have them here too. Sometimes more. The town I live in has 3 in succession
evergreen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.
seejur@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do they have pit stops to recharge the batteries at Walmart? I would imagine there is also a burrito stand nearby
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
They’re not called burritos any more. They’re called Americas.
If you imply different you’ll get deported.
Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
America’s been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.
Ilovemyirishtemper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Finally! People complain about them, but those people don’t understand how beneficial they are overall.
Zink@programming.dev 8 months ago
Yeah, I have a few in my Pennsyltucky town and over the years people have even learned not to stop at the yield signs!
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yielding is a woke liberal socialist concept
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They put one on a rural overpass where farmers have to cross all the time where I live. Everyone I know who lives there or farms there hates it.
rumba@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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If you overshoot your destination, do you have to drive another 74 hours to get back to it?
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If you turn around (going against the circle), does it go up in time?
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Why did it stop at 74? Why not infinity or 99? I can plot 79 hours from Key West Florida to Anchorage Alaska
What a neat bug.
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misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 8 months ago
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Interestingly they spin counterclockwise here, but clockwise in Australia.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How can one be too stupid to use a roundabout?
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I’ve seen
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Turning left without going around the center
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Stopping to allow someone into the roundabout intended as a kind gesture and
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My mom insisted that in her car I use the left turn signal if my roundabout exit is to the left of my entrance
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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Unfortunately, it’s a thing. I’ve had people try to merge onto the roundabout when I’m in it, and then honk at me when I didn’t let them through. If any of these people ever do hit my car, I am not going to try to correct them ahead of time so that they perjurer themselves to the cop who eventually shows up to take the report.
Which I think speaks to the terrible level of driver training in America. A roundabout is a combination of things that you should already know about as a driver, like how yield signs work, and how to stay in your lane and follow lines on the road. If you can’t put those thoughts together, then I question your ability to drive safely at all.
Wolf@lemmy.today 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
This was brilliant.
Bosht@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve never seen this copypasta and I love it.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It came from the heart
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 8 months ago
for a country who’s core values is Car, they suck at driving
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months 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.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can drive from gibraltar to Edinburgh and still be in UK
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Hey look kids! It’s Big Ben!
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Bravo !
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Parliament!
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
Entitle9294@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.
474D@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Uh, you know we have roundabouts in the US too, right?
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
At exactly the 4,376th minute the universe will fold and all time and space shall collapse.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can buy a coffee mug with a $9.99 price tag, the be asked to pay $10.74 at the register. The German mind cannot comprehend this
random_character_a@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The wheel and circular geometry are relatively new Inventions.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.
nuko147@lemmy.world 8 months ago
74 hours without the stops!
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
American here, you can absolutely drive at least one more hour than that. Idiots.
gurnu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a million things Americans can’t comprehend. Not licking billionaire’s boots, for one