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.
You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.
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misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
for a country who’s core values is Car, they suck at driving
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How can one be too stupid to use a roundabout?
Wolf@lemmy.today 5 weeks 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.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I asked my neighbor, he said Europeans are stupid for driving in circles all day. So, that’s how.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Interestingly they spin counterclockwise here, but clockwise in Australia.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
This was brilliant.
Bosht@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve never seen this copypasta and I love it.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It came from the heart
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
>my citizens in Cities:Skylines
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Don’t forget to put a toll booth on every street
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
LANE CHANGE
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’ve been turning right since at least '80…and you started far on the right already.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hey!
Don’t forget Nixon.
rmuk@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.
evergreen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.
seejur@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
They’re not called burritos any more. They’re called Americas.
If you imply different you’ll get deported.
ceenote@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I really wanna know what they put in to Google to make it spit out that time estimate.
wischi@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Probably a scripted route.
slingstone@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They’ve started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Roundabouts are even better.
rektdeckard@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I didn’t realize there was a difference
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Only 74 hours?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 weeks ago
Gas is expensive over here.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
74hrs straight
fading_person@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Mr bean, is that you?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
American here, you can absolutely drive at least one more hour than that. Idiots.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany. It’s unenforceable in most cases because it’s easy to claim a fake reason but if you keep circling a roundabout, there is a case to be made against you.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany.
Completely reasonable, but somehow I’m still surprised that this is a thing.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
2,219km is only 1,378mi… that’s about the distance from the southern tip of California to the top of Washington State. Not even the width of the US.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It also would only take around 20 hours.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that’s at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Or the circumference of your mum’s fat arse
rmuk@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Or the size of your Mom’s big butt.
Beep boop I’m a bot that translates British English to American English. To opt out, reply ‘ligma’.
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.
Entitle9294@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I think those are called beltways
capuccino@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
do germans move their cars like the flintstones how do they magane have fuel/battery for 72hrs?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Two words: German Efficiency
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
I hear their gas devices are very efficient.
capuccino@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
it’s a flintstones thing then
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 5 weeks 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!
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Their cars run off centrifugal force.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks 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.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Easy, just pick a roundabout that goes downhill.
474D@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Uh, you know we have roundabouts in the US too, right?
Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
America’s been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.
pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Laughs in Australian
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 weeks 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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noMoYnks@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
To be fair germans would probably drive that long just for the pleasure of polluting the air
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Don’t even have any nice landmarks on the drive, like Big Ben.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Hey look kids! It’s Big Ben!
Pandantic@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
The Longest Roubdabout by Germany
Burninator05@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Schaut mal, Kinder, Big Ben
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
Can easily do this around the Arc of Triumph
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie
random_character_a@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The wheel and circular geometry are relatively new Inventions.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
In Taiwan, we do roundabouts all wrong. We add traffic lights in the middle of them.
nuko147@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
74 hours without the stops!
gurnu@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There’s a million things Americans can’t comprehend. Not licking billionaire’s boots, for one
uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
German who lives in USA, they have them here too. Sometimes more. The town I live in has 3 in succession
Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You can drive from gibraltar to Edinburgh and still be in UK
slaacaa@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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
FelixCress@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not any sane mind can comprehend this.
DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I can comprehend it, but I’m certainly not happy about it
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Imo it only works if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I thought that was JC Pennys
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald’s. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier ‘wow perfect, what are the chances’
She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.
peregrin5@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
neither can the Oregonian mind
Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles
uzay@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
Which are only added in fine print on the price tag usually. But it’s more like 8-25 cents for cans, most plastic bottles, and some glass bottles.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Oregon has entered the chat