To be fair, I hate full 2 lane roundabouts. The right lane should be for immediate turn-offs only. Luckily the roundabouts in my area are made so the right lane splits off and only go to the next turn-off.
Right lane for the first or second exits. Left lane for the second or third exit (or reverse direction). Works great, I used to drive through a big one on a highway and a little one in the main intersection in town all the time.
Oh, I fully understand. But if you getting on in the right lane going to the second exit, and some other car was ALREADY on in the second lane, there’s no way to know if you need to give right of way or if they’re about to continue to the next exit. Should I be breaking or not? Is this car about to veer in front of me?
It’s just much simpler if right lane was first exit only.
I’m talking about after you’re already in the roundabout. When the right lane’s first and second exit matches the left lane’s second and third exit and thr right lane doesn’t know if the left lane is exiting or not.
Yeah, that can be a bit tricky, but in my experience people use their signals and drive defensively to allow people to exit. And because entering traffic yields to both lanes, there aren’t so many cars in the roundabout at the same time that it becomes a problem.
I frequent a roundabout that bucks this rule, and it drives me nuts. Because the roundabout is part of a relatively major throughfare, people who are already in the circle need to yield to those who are entering from that one particular road. So as to not make the people on the major road slow down too much I guess?
It makes sense when you think about it, and It works OK if you’re familiar with the circle, but if you’ve never driven on it before and you miss the internal yield sign (or if you’re entering from the major road and don’t see the lack of yield sign), then you’re going to cause issues.
Roundabouts weren’t taught or tested for in the US when people over 50 originally learned to drive. It’s not surprising they don’t know how to deal with them.
It’s because nobody understands that right turn on red means that you still have to stop and wait for painting traffic to clear before entering the intersection.
Actually no, it’s more the permanent residents that do that. The northeastern residents are far more likely to cause an accident while trying to merge because they have very different merge laws and think that traffic has to let them merge. And I think most of the Canadians follow the speed limit signs using km/h instead of mph.
Florida. The Sunshine State is Florida for those who don’t know, don’t care, or hate it when authors use nicknames for some proper nouns and actual names for other things in the same category.
It’s petty, I know, but just use the words we all know for fuck’s sake.
Edit: I’m not calling out the OP (thanks for sharing this!), these words that bother me appear in the text of the study.
Its cause they think they were the only state that was independent from the US before becoming a part of it, ya know ignoring Vermont, California, and fucking Hawaii which wasnt just independent it was a whole ass kingdom and nation state.
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