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Roundabouts have started appearing in Thailand, a country where most of driving population do not hold any form of driving license and had only minor handed dow
by nowprovision 11y ago
Roundabouts have started appearing in Thailand, a country where most of driving population do not hold any form of driving license and had only minor handed down informal training, the results are comical, although there is probably some scientific value that can be taken away if studied seriously. The most common observation I found is that most give way to entering traffic (i.e. they stop in the roundabout), there are of course less common instances of going around with hazard lights on, and going the wrong direction, and even just driving over them completely ignorant, by less common I mean <20% not the exception you witness elsewhere. If you're on holiday in Koh Samui, Thailand and from a country where roundabouts are popular then this location https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ko+Samui,+Thailand/@9.5340885,100.060806,70m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x3054f1501c66266f:0xedd55abd3d7d8330!6m1!1e1 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ko+Samui,+Thailand/@9.5340... will provide a good few minutes of free entertainment, just don't stand too close to the road, luckily though an ambulance is usually stationed a few metres away. Unfortunately this roundabout doesn't work (in terms of optimal traffic flow) for the reasons above and unlike "a north Georgia town" education isn't going to be possible when they have no license or training, and more importantly not a care in the world.