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gmtom @lemmy.world

11mo ago

It is truly magic

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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:
- 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?
- Saving this pic so I can recreate this beautiful monster in Cities: Skylines.
  
  -5 fps
- 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
  
  i don’t think there are any. priority is based on how much you think you could take rival vehicles in a fight.
  
  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’m sure you mean this seriously, it just tickles me.
  
  Where we're going, we don't need traffic lights
  
  Have... Have you never seen a roundabout?

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
- Traffic inside the roundabout has priority, meaning you wait to go in until no one comes from left (roundabouts are always counter-clock). That difficult?
  
  Yeah, everyone knows how a roundabout works but if you've never seen several of them combined like this then it can take you by surprise if you were just expecting one big one

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!
- The redditor mind cannot comprehend this
- I'm loving it. Moar

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 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.
  
  There was a meme posted earlier that used the term "USAean". They were referring to that i think
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  They're not two different continents thought?
- *étasuniens
  
  les 'ricains
- 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

I was waiting for this one lol
- Inevitable as the heat death of the universe.

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.

Personally, I would have used the Swindon magic roundabout, but this works too.
- The less people that know about Swindon the better.
  
  my favourite thing about Swindon is ~

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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.

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.
- are you American?
  
  No

Only if there's traffic. It says it only takes a minute without traffic.

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
  
  they keep getting progressively more unhinged
  Also see: England.

Thank you. This is the meme that Lemmy has needed for the last week.

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.
  
  Didn’t say there was anything wrong with it, but whichever side you learn on it’s not going to be an easy switch.
  Is that really why? Wild
  
  Speak for yourself, righty.

Inconceivable!!

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.

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