Comment on A roundabout

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?

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  • 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.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A “not needed roundabout” is a new concept to me. Are they in a straight street?

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      • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Prwtty much. Straight road with an offshoot to a fucking golf course. Not that many people go there but they needed a roundabout I guess.

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• 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?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    of course they don’t show it he misses the boost panel

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think he got enough of a boost.

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• 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!

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah that’s one of them newfangled jumpabouts I keep hearing about?

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• NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stunt jump completed

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• 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

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  • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you should drive slower

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s always easy to say people don’t make mistakes but the reality is they do. They will drive the speed the road is designed for. They will lose focus. They will be distracted. Similarly road maintenance will be skipped or delayed and there will be times with no paint on the road or missing signs.

      We can’t afford to build roads for people’s ideal behavior but need to account for their actual behavior, and need roads work safely despite human failures.

      A clear line of sight makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. A straight approach makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. A dirty windshield or excessive headlight glare makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. An unfamiliar road or a couple seconds of inattentiveness is all it takes before they see the clues too late. Meanwhile something as cheap and simple as shrubs interrupts their line of sight from way back so it is more apparent

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      • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        there are signs

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• techfox@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me in Forza Horizon

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Me in ETS2

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  • ReeferPirate@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit”

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Johhnnnnyy^y^y^y^yy^y^
  ~ yyyy Two Cellos

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• Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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)

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨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

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