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:
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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
Saving the operational costs of traffic lights is the biggest pro of roundabouts. Cars inside a roundabout always have priority and cars who wanna enter it have to yield.
i don’t think there are any. priority is based on how much you think you could take rival vehicles in a fight.
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.
Shhhh! Just to mention it might bring it back!
Are you saying you’re only…interested in important updates?
Not at all!! I’m being a bit tongue in cheek really. I enjoy these things, but the jeans one went on a bit long.
(Que someone to create a car driving around some jeans for 18 hours to shock yoga pants wearers)
Ah sorry there was an older Lemmy original meme. Was a typical survey question, one of the options was “only alert me on important updates” or some such. Spawned like two straight weeks of stroganoff memes. Google doesn’t search lemmy well or I’d link you the page
The redditor mind cannot comprehend this
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.
I learned to drive in a town where the on ramp to the highway came out of a roundabout so I actually did some learning! :)
👏👏👏👏👏 so proud of you :)
I have one within 5 minutes heading to the beach and you can always see the confused travelers looping lol
1 min without traffic
American? Do you mean USAEan?
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.
1: I was making a meta joke, and this point isnt really your fault
2: Canada takes up more of North America than the States does, and no one says “United States of Mexico”, they say Mexico. Mexico is also not a continent that is shared with other Countries. In general I’m not going to fight people referring to the States as America, but you arguement is BAD
It’s not about size. It’s the fact that the United States of America has the word “America” in it. And I don’t refer to the US as “America” (unless I’m being cheeky, though in those cases, I spell it 'Murica), but I do refer to people from the US as “American”.
And I know this is all kinda pedantic. I just think it’s fun to talk about words. I get the feeling you read some snark into my pervious comment, but that really wasn’t my goal.
Oh, yeah, I totally misread your tone and point, my bad. You’re right on there not really being an better word for People of the US than American, although now that I think about it “Statesman” sounds pretty nifty
I’m just being a little pedantic here, but Canada is only about 100k miles or so bigger than the US and much more of Canada is unlivable unless you count Texas and Florida as being unlivable, because I do.
There’s also about 10x as many Americans as Canadians.
I’m just being a little pedantic here, but miles are only a unit to measure distance not area.
tbh “united mexican stateans” sounds cool, it should be used more
Continent wide generalizations work just fine for 2 of them. Damn Australians an penguins are up to something, I’m sure of it!
I’d prefer calling them murican.
how cever!
They’re not two different continents thought?
North America and South America are 2 continents in a lot of models. What definition are you using that has them as one? I’m always pretty skeptical of the ones that have Europe and Asia but then just America.
Yes Eurasia is 1 continent too, arguably it should be afroeurasia as well.
North and South are their own plates
Africa is it’s own plate
So what are you arguing?
?? Plates dont equal continents? Or do you think Turkey is its own continent? And the east coast of Africa is a seperate continent to the rest of Africa?
I am asking what they are supplementing their argument with
Damn I thought I didn’t know geography cuz I’m American
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
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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,
brothercomrade.
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.
Personally, I would have used the Swindon magic roundabout, but this works too.
The less people that know about Swindon the better.
Can confirm. I tried 2 laps in the roundabout in front of Kaiser and people lost their minds 😂
I’d like to return to the simple days of lemme beans, please.
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what’s the origin of this meme? I’ve seen several versions of this same theme
they keep getting progressively more unhinged and im on board
Thank you. This is the meme that Lemmy has needed for the last week.
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
Two way street roundabouts aren’t even a thing I’ve seen in person, ours all seem to be one way, so this would definitely be weird to me.
It’s more confusing looking at it from a top view. When driving it’s loads easier. I was expecting a mind numbing event first time I drove it but it wasn’t that bad really.
Inconceivable!!
