Submitted 11 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Like… is there any law against it?
In Germany:
When using vehicles, unnecessary noise and avoidable exhaust pollution are prohibited. In particular, it is prohibited to run vehicle engines unnecessarily and to close vehicle doors excessively loudly. Unnecessary driving to and fro within built-up areas is prohibited if it causes a nuisance to others.
§30 (1), StVO
Closing doors too loudly is illegal what the fuck?
Noise is a public nusince. I definitely wouldn’t want my neighbours constantly slamming their doors at night. I doubt you are going to get fined if you are slamming your door occasionally or in the middle of the woods.
Laws exist to ensure that we can all live peacefully together. I think most people agree that excessive noise is more of a negative than a positive. Most places have similar curfew laws where excessive noise at night is not allowed.
Yes, if you slam your doors every day at 3am you will be fined. Is there anything wrong with that?
You’d need to refuel at some point and I expect that refuelling whilst in motion would probably hit some legal issues.
And then, assuming that you overcame that, in the UK at least, you’d need at MOT test at some point, which would have to be at an approved test centre, so 3 years at the absolute max - although I expect tyres etc would need attention before that.
If jets can refuel mid-flight, I'd think a similar solution should be even easier for a much-slower car.
BMW did it: Video link
I'm hearing that there's a need for gas / petrol / whatever stations in more roundabouts. Maybe even a rest stop or extended stay hotel.
Where do you live, OP?
In Denmark it goes in the same category as not driving when the light is green or keeping to the left on the highway.
While you seldomly see someone get fined for it, taking more than two turns in the roundabout is considered an obstruction of traffic, and therefore illegal.
How is it obstructing traffic if the flow of traffic is never interrupted?
Depending on the definition, you’re not obscuring traffic if you’re driving 60kmh in the fastlane either, or if only you manage to get over the green light because of your tardiness, as traffic is still flowing, just very, very slow.
Either way, you’ll be slowing down traffic and get in the way of other drivers, unless you are the only person on the road.
In Norway, there's a specific "law" against causing dangerous situations by being inattentive, unpredictable, inconsiderate or reckless. Needless to say, it goes unenforced a lot, but if you wanted to nail someone for driving like a dipshit, it'd be a decent catch-all.
In Sweden, we have a classic joke that Norwegian roundabouts have the sign “Maximum 3 rounds”.
You'll probably not be surprised to hear we have the exact same joke about Swedes.
In my country you are only allowed three rounds max. But I have not heard of any case where someone was fined for such a “crime”.
How do you even know that? Is there a sign or something?
They teach it to you in driving school. No need for signs since it counts for every roundabout.
Hilarious
Yes, as laws sometimes are…
It'd be called 'obstructing traffic'. Police sometimes grab boy-racers along the sea-front near my home for it. There's no specific law saying you can't wait at a T-junction indefinitely, and i usually get stuck behind the ones that do. :-(
“Boy-racer” is a term I wish I had known years ago to refer to some acquaintances. Seems much less offensive than what I was using.
Illegal in my country, as you are disturbing traffic. Potentially even preventing emergency services to operate
i mean, if everyone was staying on the roundabout.... but if you have one guy goin round and round, there should be plenty of interleave for everyone else. how would it be disruptive?
im an ignorant american, just curious
During rush hour, it will definitely have an impact on the flow of traffic with most roundabouts, which are usually not very big (in France anyway).
Because if you let one guy do it, you have to let everyone do it.
Obviously it’s all going to be dependent on local laws, and depending on their vagueness the attitude of the cop that eventually has to deal with you. Here we have a catch-all ticket for “wasting finite resources” for cops to use when they don’t know what else to ticket you for. Originally it was to stop cruising, but I’m pretty sure no one has gone cruising since gas was $0.25 a gallon. Also I’m wondering if I could fight such a ticket if I can prove I charge my car with 100% solar.
Also batteries lose capacity, making them finite as well
Your current gas prices are about at the level where a lot of people used to cruise at where I live. Haven’t really seen it much since it rose to about 2€ per liter (7.57€ or $8.29 per gallon).
Omg… How can anyone afford those prices? Last time I filled up I think it was $2.73 per gallon.
It depends how many tickets your mum bought. Even then, the owner is bound to close up at some point to go home.
Maybe have a go on the swings in the meantime?
In what sort of horrible dystopian nightmare do you need to pay to take your kids to a park?
Maybe they were thinking of a fair or something?
Probably there are many places with no specific provisions against that but surely that would count for authorities as some sort of disruption of traffic, which are intentionally vaguely defined to cover such ambiguous eventualities.
A shame, I think it would be neat.
In major cities in America, just as an example, there is often a statue against “cruising” which is usually defined as passing by the same point more than X number of times in Y span of time. These laws are ostensibly aimed at harassing the (black) “car culture” people while they’re showing off their customized vehicles in the 'hood. But you could probably apply it to OP’s case if you were twisted enough.
I don’t see why not. I often joke about doing so, and have once or twice gone around and around, but the thrill quickly wears off after two or three passes.
I would love to watch someone commit to the bit and keep on until the authorities take issue.
No mention of roundabout or traffic circles in Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act, but the rule that governs are the yield signs around the outside that stipulate that traffic in the roundabout has right of way.
Keep moving: Once you are in the roundabout, do not stop except to avoid a collision; you have the right-of-way over entering traffic. Do not change lanes while in the roundabout. If in the inside lane and you miss your exit, you must continue around until you meet your exit again.
This suggests, in Ontario at least, you could stay in the roundabout forever without breaking the rules.
Look kids, Parliament, Big Ben!
Only in a milk float driven by a priest.
Yes, there is a law. It says, misuse of public roads is forbidden. In the case of a roundabout, misuse starts with your second full circle.
maybe wanna say where, since laws everywhere are different?
laws everywhere are different?
But ours are the best ones ;-)
Germany here.
You could probably stay on the magic roundabout until you ran out of fuel.
Generally if you aren't sure which exit you need its a good idea to go around a few times, plan your exit/lanes and then leave (althoughyou shouldn't enter a roundabout without knowing your exit is clear).
But I doubt you could go all the way around a mini roundabout
I would definitely try at least a couple of loops around that little guy. Just look at it! How could you resist!?
I encountered the magic roundabout 25 years ago, just as a passenger, and I’m still mentally scarred.
I suspect that when your car runs out of gas and stalls in the middle of the suicide circle you could get a ticket for blocking traffic or something.
if you are without food or water you become incapable and that is illegal
i sometimes take an extra trip through the roundabout if some asshole is driving way too close to my rear and refuses to overtake
Quetzlcoatl@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So you’re texting while driving, uh?
We should all report you, but we’re too curious to know the source of perpetual motion that’s been powering you since May!
alehc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What do you mean perpetual motion? You guys don’t hire other drivers to fuel you while on the roundabout like they fuel planes while flying? I thought everybody had one of those in case they accidentaly entered a roundabout.
Gilles_D@feddit.de 11 months ago
Found the guy stuck in the roundabout
Lemmygizer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Look kids, Big Ben