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DoctorPiranha3
01/17/2024
09:42 PM
#1
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/41ef776f.jpg

Discuss.
C_Pain
01/17/2024
09:43 PM
#2
They're a few roundabouts in the Northeast I've encountered. I like then since there's no danger in being t-boned, but sometimes I don't know when my turn to go is.
How quaint.
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Irony
01/17/2024
09:44 PM
#4
Japanese and roundabouts

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Lairen
01/17/2024
09:44 PM
#5
I have a few one lane roundabouts but i literally dont understand the 2 lane ones.
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The_Wheelman1
01/17/2024
09:44 PM
#6
Im seeing them more and more here in the south
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Bugmeat
01/17/2024
09:45 PM
#7
I don't like them. But mostly because I so rarely encounter them here in the U.S. They make me a little nervous. Not so much the roundabout itself, but the other drivers coming and going from it. Are they familiar with how it works? Are they going to do it right? Or fuck up and cause an accident.

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Glob
01/17/2024
09:47 PM
#8
Lairen posted...
I have a few one lane roundabouts but i literally dont understand the 2 lane ones.

Theyre really not that hard to understand. Especially once youve used them a couple of times.
SiO4
01/17/2024
09:51 PM
#9
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thronedfire2
01/17/2024
09:53 PM
#10
it's called a rotary
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TheSuperSilver
01/17/2024
10:02 PM
#11
mobilebloechel posted...
You call that a roundabout?

This is a roundabout

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9cf083ad.jpg
I swear DC has one or two like that.
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Gritty
01/17/2024
10:04 PM
#12
We had a tooling roundabout put in about 20 years ago, and there was a lot of resistance at first, but everybody loves it.

traffic in that area is much better
archizzy
01/17/2024
10:05 PM
#13
They have become really popular in my small populated area of the Midwest in the last decade. People complain about them but I think they are great. We just have small 2 lane ones. Easy to understand and navigate and WAY BETTER than going down the main street and dealing with stoplight after stoplight.

It make traffic so smooth and I love not having to stop.
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GrandConjuraton
01/17/2024
10:09 PM
#14
They're horrible.
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tripleh213
01/17/2024
10:12 PM
#15
Better than stopping at 100 lights
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Will_VIIII
01/17/2024
10:24 PM
#16
archizzy posted...
They have become really popular in my small populated area of the Midwest in the last decade. People complain about them but I think they are great. We just have small 2 lane ones. Easy to understand and navigate and WAY BETTER than going down the main street and dealing with stoplight after stoplight.

It make traffic so smooth and I love not having to stop.
They're less fatal when it comes to crashes too
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archizzy
01/17/2024
10:25 PM
#17
Will_VIIII posted...
They're less fatal when it comes to crashes too

Yep. Pretty much zero drawbacks to them yet people continually whine about them. Go figure.
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vycebrand2
01/17/2024
10:27 PM
#18
In my many trips to visit and take my friend home from the hospital there was one. Thing is its a 2 lane road both directions. It's out of the way. I would guess traffic is light to med. It's a bit confusing first time. I had the guy behind me honk. I was like theres the dude over there to the left. Who knows wheres hes going. Give me a break
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NPC
01/17/2024
10:28 PM
#19
GrandConjuraton posted...
They're horrible.
How many times do you drive a week?
ForsakenHermit
01/17/2024
10:28 PM
#20
I remember one by the SUNY Albany campus that was easy to figure out.
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HudGard
01/17/2024
10:30 PM
#21
I remember Logan Square (Circle?) during high traffic giving me anxiety
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GrandConjuraton
01/17/2024
10:31 PM
#22
NPC posted...
How many times do you drive a week?
I haven't drove in a few years, but when I was in DC and drove around the one there, it was a nightmare.
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UnholyMudcrab
01/17/2024
10:37 PM
#23
I've never really had a problem with roundabouts, but I also don't use the multi-lane ones. I imagine that people don't handle those very well.
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Sir_Will
01/17/2024
10:58 PM
#24
archizzy posted...
Yep. Pretty much zero drawbacks to them yet people continually whine about them. Go figure.
Well they require more space and have a higher initial cost. But they are pretty effective.
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DoctorPiranha3
01/18/2024
08:55 AM
#25
So they're better and more functional than traffic lights?
Avirosb
01/18/2024
08:58 AM
#26
With the Tesla Hyperloop, roundabouts will be a thing of the past.

I dunno, just felt like typing something silly.
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
01/18/2024
08:58 AM
#27
I'm fine with the one lane ones, those are easy and I don't get why people bitch about those around me, but they do.

The ones that are like 3 or more lanes confuse me when I look at diagrams of how they are supposed to work. I'd probably need some first hand experience driving in one to get it. But I've never encountered one.
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Were_Wyrm
01/18/2024
08:59 AM
#28
We can barely handle going in straight lines, please don't throw circles at us.
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Avirosb
01/18/2024
08:59 AM
#29
Were_Wyrm posted...
We can barely handle going in straight lines, please don't throw circles at us.
But cars and donuts go hand in hand.
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lilORANG
01/18/2024
09:01 AM
#30
They are good for a number of reasons but I still get nervous on multilane ones bc you have to put a lot of trust into the other cars to know how they work.
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ai123
01/18/2024
09:04 AM
#31
Try the Arc de Triomphe roundabout.

The only rule is that anything to your right has the right of way.

https://youtu.be/-2RCPpdmSVg
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VeggetaX
01/18/2024
09:08 AM
#32
They're the self-checkout of the streets
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tankboy
01/18/2024
09:36 AM
#33
The ones that use a simple "yield to traffic inside the circle" rule are easy. It's when you have complex traffic signals and exceptions that things get difficult.
Two examples in DC: Dupont Circle (where traffic entering the circle has traffic lights that literally never turn green) and Ward Circle (which is really two interlocked circles).
Sir_Will
01/18/2024
11:21 PM
#34
ai123 posted...
Try the Arc de Triomphe roundabout.

The only rule is that anything to your right has the right of way.

https://youtu.be/-2RCPpdmSVg
o_O Yeah, no.
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Questionmarktarius
01/18/2024
11:23 PM
#35
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SauI_Goodman
01/18/2024
11:24 PM
#36
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specialkid8
01/18/2024
11:32 PM
#37
mobilebloechel posted...
You call that a roundabout?

This is a roundabout

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9cf083ad.jpg
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toreysback
01/18/2024
11:34 PM
#38
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Tyranthraxus
01/19/2024
12:24 AM
#39
thronedfire2 posted...
it's called a rotary
It's a traffic circle.
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SiO4
01/19/2024
01:07 PM
#40
Questionmarktarius posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/21b99d8e.jpg


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Butterfiles
01/19/2024
01:12 PM
#42
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/abe5efe0.jpg

Psh, roundabouts. We on the diverging diamond wave now (basically car traffic completely switches sides of the road to make freeway merges safer)
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Bass
01/19/2024
01:18 PM
#44
There's not enough of them around in my area. Much prefer them to lights or 4 way stops.
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NoxObscuras
01/19/2024
01:28 PM
#45
We have a few in California. There's one in my neighborhood that has stop signs in all directions, so it's not really much different than a normal 4 way stop, just with the added danger of people not knowing WTF they're doing. I had some guy make a left turn by literally going left around the roundabout. Almost hit me head on
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Tyranthraxus
01/19/2024
02:21 PM
#46
Asherlee10 posted...
I love diverging diamond interchanges.
I hate this shit so much I take a detour to go around it.
It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha."
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coolboy11
01/19/2024
02:51 PM
#47
Butterfiles posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/abe5efe0.jpg

Psh, roundabouts. We on the diverging diamond wave now (basically car traffic completely switches sides of the road to make freeway merges safer)
we have one on one of the major highways heading towards/from the city (where it meets the suburbs/exuburbs basically) insane how much better traffic flow is because of it.
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Questionmarktarius
01/19/2024
03:09 PM
#48
Were the yellow route above the blue one, traffic flow would be even betterer
Giant_Aspirin
01/19/2024
03:11 PM
#49
Asherlee10 posted...
I love them because it keeps traffic flowing. I don't understand the hate for them.

same. roundabout >>>>>>>> 4-way stop or traffic light for the vast majority of cases
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masterpug53
01/19/2024
03:17 PM
#50
The first roundabout I ever encountered in my life happened to be right at twilight after I'd driven solo 1,600 miles over two days to visit a friend cross-country. It was certainly a 'what the fucking fuck is this shit' moment.

But they're pretty great. I pass through about three of them on my way to work every morning. Some people still don't know how to use them, but it seems like even fewer people down here know how to use a fucking 4-way stop properly.
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