We have shitloads of roundabouts all over the country but OK.
While we're on the subject though, they're fucking great!
You have failed to notice that the Magic Roundabout isn't a roundabout
It's six roundabouts
Your entire puny American consciousness would literally disintegrate on arrival at the first one
Having driven on that magic roundabout as well as the one in Swindon I can tell you that most minds can't comprehend them
I don't mind the complexity of it, but they need to make it bigger to make lane changes possible. That and experienced drivers are too impatient for new drivers to figure it out.
Most people i see on a daily basis can't hndle a normal 2 lane roundabout, ao i'm not sure if that would help
I enjoy this meme. Truly a Lemmy original.
It's a step up from beans & jeans, for sure.
I'm loving it. Moar
The redditor mind cannot comprehend this
I do not understand :(
I think the joke is people keep posting the "you can drive x hours and still be in y location", but really, you can drive indefinitely in one neighborhood, without every leaving. You could stay in the roundabout for as long as you want, just like you can drive from South Africa to Finland, or whatever.
Yes, that was my first thought as well.
But the Google Maps screenshot says 0.2 mile which means that it's just exactly one time around in the roundabout and not insanely often, so that's not the case here.
I looked up the roundabout to see if there's any reason why you'd need so long (e.g. it's not really for driving and you could be 1mph/kmh or so, but it looks like you can drive normally on it.
I was waiting for this one lol
Inevitable as the heat death of the universe.
there are many roundabouts in my American city and sometimes the Americans even use them correctly
Of course I know how to use a roundabout! Step one: close eyes Step two: floor it Step three: pray Works every time!
You joke. I have personally seen someone use a roundabout like a launch ramp and survive.
I've seen the end result of someone trying to use a roundabout as a launch ramp. I don't think their car, stuck in the middle of the roundabout, survived.
My American city has at least 2 roundabouts in it, and I happen to get confused by at least one of them every time I'm trying to get somewhere.
Based and freedom-pilled. Ignorance out for America, ~~brother~~ comrade.
To be fair, it's the most American roundabout ever. Changing numbers of lanes, stop lights around it, and completely unintuitive. I seem to always be one lane more to the right of where I thought I needed to be.
I used to live nearby! Loved that silly thing, just don’t treat it like one big roundabout - it’s six chained roundabouts that you can use individually; both green and red routes are valid and legal for the same destination:
Did you Photoshop out all the traffic lights??
Where we're going, we don't need traffic lights
i don’t think there are any. priority is based on how much you think you could take rival vehicles in a fight.
Traffic lights make roundabouts pointless, unless they’re on a quick cycle used to ‘group’ cars entering a multi-lane roundabout.
If your population didn’t grow up with roundabouts though, and treats them like YOLO free for alls… then you might need lights
My hometown installed roundabouts, with 4 way stop signs. Like, why.
Could someone flip this for those of us who drive on the right?
But the drawn arrows already imply driving on the right side? Or did this get edited?
1 min without traffic
what's the origin of this meme? I've seen several versions of this same theme
The biggest my city has is 2 lanes and 5 exits. That’s pretty easy; 1st or 2nd exit is ok in the right lane, anything else in the left, always yield to left lane.
This 4 lane 6 exit shit is wild. Oh, and you drive on the left for some extra “what the fuck?”
Nothing wrong with driving on the left, we've been doing it since before cars. It helps to keep your sword arm closer to opposing traffic.
Personally, I would have used the Swindon magic roundabout, but this works too.
The less people that know about Swindon the better.
Thank you. This is the meme that Lemmy has needed for the last week.
Can confirm. I tried 2 laps in the roundabout in front of Kaiser and people lost their minds 😂
American? Do you mean USAEan?
It's okay, man. I saw the post you're referencing at least.
xD I went a little too hard on the meta, its to be expected =P
Ok. I get it. There are people in the Americas that are not from the US. But do you call people from the United Mexican States "Unitied Mexican Stateans"? No, that sounds ridiculous. I think that it's silly anyway to call everyone from either Americas "American" anyway; they are two different continents! "North American" or "South American" would be better, if you must get so broad with your adjectives (but really, continent-wide generalizations of people are rarely useful anyway). Sorry for the rant.
There was a meme posted earlier that used the term "USAean". They were referring to that i think
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