A roundabout
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
of course they don’t show it he misses the boost panel
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Ah that’s one of them newfangled jumpabouts I keep hearing about?
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Stunt jump completed
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I still think there’s a contributing factor that the road builders did not plant shrubs. There needs to be a clearer interruption in the line of sight
techfox@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Me in Forza Horizon
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Me in ETS2
ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
“At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit”
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Johhnnnnyy^y^y^y^yy^y^
~ yyyy Two CellosZiglin@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
ooterness@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I remember that part from Drivers Ed.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
they just taught us to ditch the car and run for a tunnel. things have changed since the 80s
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
I’m at a bar and can’t watch a video, saving this bad boy for later!
TheUniverseandNetworks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That was fantastic! 😊
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
the most plow-throughable
ripe for riding
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Got ya feeling something?
kiagam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Depending on road size, it is for trucks to be able to turn
Dalvoron@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It’s like he knew he was supposed to be setting an example but buckled under pressure.
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I have no strong memories about roundabouts. My life is a lie.
Vengefu1Tuna@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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.
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My state is installing them everywhere despite people not knowing how to drive (only state in the union without compulsory driver’s ed). So it’s very common to enter a roundabout and have another car go the wrong way, because they wanted to go left.
I just sit with my horn depressed until they back up. Sometimes it takes a while.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do the road designers cheap out?
- The few roundabouts a couple decades ago may have been ambiguous but every roundabout I’ve seen for many years is clearly marked on the approach so you can’t screw up the direction.
- I understand someone unfamiliar may stop unexpectedly or not understand how to exit, but how do they screw up the direction?
- Even changing lanes which used to be where people screwed up a lot, recent roundabouts are clearly marked what lane you should be in and the lane markers lead to the exit: how can people not understand signs saying this lane for this road?
If your road designers aren’t following these conventions, that may be a contributing factor
tensorpudding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I regularly take a busy road with a two-lane roundabout marked this way and you can be sure that people will ignore these lane markers. I’m honestly surprised I haven’t seen a fender bender there before.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Put it on the bucket list 😜
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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?
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Become ungovernable just like that dude
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A straightabout.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man, as I’m reading through the comments more and more, the happier I become for selling my car. Did it years ago, never going back. Still rent lorries for deliveries from time to time though.
BandanaBug@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Some people don’t know how they work.
But also don’t learn.gerowen@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you want to practice, head up to the Newport/Covington area in northern Kentucky. There’s a bunch up near the river, and a few over by NKU’s campus.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I do that all the time…
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
car running over a roundabout
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
When Freebird start playing:
ikidd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Them Duke boys were having them some fun, down in the Far South.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Had to turn my phone sideways to see it.
Worth it.
Zoot@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t get it?
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Woof, the whole axle
Willy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m not a car guy. Will it be ok?
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Great, there’s a whole additional angle for getting splashed by a puddle I need to watch out for now
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Image
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Nailed it.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hell of a way to total a car though.
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eh, put that bumper back on, bit of clay bar, it’s as good as new.