A roundabout
Submitted 21 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
See how annoying roundabouts can be when people just want to plow forward in a straight line? Roundabouts are such an inconvenience. Gotta slow down & pay attention & go around an obstacle & all that shit. TRAFFIC CALMING? What’s that? You know when you tell people to calm down, that only makes them angrier, right?
/s
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There is 5 roundabouts from the motorway to my home town. About 5 minute drive. 2 of those annoy me because they were not needed and do slow donw traffic. 3 were needed and are good.
mhague@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
They never show the full version of this gif, where you can see the elevated section of road the driver is aiming for. Have people seriously never seen a highway overpass? Do you guys just assume that every highway uses offramps instead of jumps?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
of course they don’t show it he misses the boost panel
jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
This summer, we were driving out of our neighborhood and came across a car that had all 4 tires completely blown out and destroyed. I was baffled at how that could happen, since it was a pretty calm spot of road. Maybe the police had put down spike strips to stop a fleeing car?
Then on my way back into the neighborhood I went around our round about and saw the tire tracks of a car that went right through the middle but then left the ground. The dude must have done exactly what was in this GIF!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Ah that’s one of them newfangled jumpabouts I keep hearing about?
Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I am amazed by how much of the car seems to go so far. Surely this is not real, right? (Can’t look at it closely enough on my phone)
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
It’s a real thing that happened in the town of Rąbień in Poland, a drunk driver was speeding down a road, hit a roundabout and flew through the air, before landing in a graveyard
Miraculously, the driver made it out alive, but the car was totalled
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Stunt jump completed
tetris11@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Johhnnnnyy^y^y^y^yy^y^
~ yyyy Two Cellos
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
When Freebird start playing:
ikidd@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Them Duke boys were having them some fun, down in the Far South.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Hell of a way to total a car though.
tetris11@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Nailed it.
9point6@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Great, there’s a whole additional angle for getting splashed by a puddle I need to watch out for now
tetris11@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I have seen someone back up in a roundabout because they missed their exit, and I’ve also seen someone enter a roundabout, and go the wrong way to make a u-turn.
How do you operate a car with multiple wheels and not understand how a circle works?
OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Can I wager a guess? If someone are custom to driving in a country with opposite driving direction, the second scenario seems like a common mistake.
kamen@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
A straightabout.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
On a school trip we were following a beige mini metro down the road.
We got to the roundabout. He indicated right, started to turn right, realised he was at a roundabout, lurched left, and then gloriously beached his car on the flower beds in the middle of it.
Once you get your bus pass they should just take your car off you for the safety of everyone.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
They literally made the most plow-throughable roundabout on my town. Nearly completely flat and ripe for riding. No obstacles at all
Amir@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
the most plow-throughable
ripe for riding
Gonzako@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Got ya feeling something?
kiagam@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Depending on road size, it is for trucks to be able to turn
Dalvoron@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
There are a lot of ‘mini’ roundabouts in my country that are fully flat to the ground. The point is to set the rules for right of way, entering and exiting, indication etc in a way people find familiar (we have lots of roundabouts). Just one roundabout sign at each entrance with standard road markings and everyone knows what’s up.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
It’s like he knew he was supposed to be setting an example but buckled under pressure.
ooterness@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I remember that part from Drivers Ed.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
they just taught us to ditch the car and run for a tunnel. things have changed since the 80s
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 17 hours ago
I’m at a bar and can’t watch a video, saving this bad boy for later!
TheUniverseandNetworks@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That was fantastic! 😊
Vengefu1Tuna@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
On Christmas day years ago, I was driving behind a very old lady who did this. She probably didn’t drive much and had likely never seen a roundabout before. I remember her white frizzy hair and the back of her SUV was packed full of presents. She got jostled around quite a bit when she hopped the curb, but she committed and drove straight over it. lol
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Most roundabouts are built high enough to block the view of the opposing street to force you to slow down. Smaller ones are often flat to allow long vehicles to drive over them.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Saw a guy do this on one that had been put in the intersection of a couple of country roads in North Georgia for some odd reason. Car hit it at speed, came off the ground nearly a foot, absolutely destroyed the undercarriage when it landed. Legend! Oil and coolant and likely fuel everywhere. I did not check the driver before rolling off as he came out cussing a storm about who put that there?
Hikermick@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Got a few roundabouts in an old residential neighborhood with narrow streets near me. There’s nothing in the middle and the curb is so shallow, it’s tempting to drive right through them
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Put it on the bucket list 😜
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
I have no strong memories about roundabouts. My life is a lie.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Become ungovernable just like that dude
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
I do that all the time…
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 hours ago
gerowen@lemmy.world 35 minutes ago
I don’t think there is a roundabout anywhere in Kentucky, or at least I’ve never seen one. So when I got to Fort Lewis, WA and was driving across base I came up to one and had zero fucking clue what to do. I started at it for about 10 seconds and watched another car or two go into it and kinda figured it out, but it was the most alien thing I had ever seen.