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As an American, I honestly think I'd just put my car in park and sob uncontrollably if I came across this.
by trentmb 10y ago
As an American, I honestly think I'd just put my car in park and sob uncontrollably if I came across this.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 10y agoWe are currently experimenting with other strange interchange designs in America. I present to you the diverging diamond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange We have one near where I live that opened a few months ago. There appears to be an adjustment period for our drivers. I have spoken to people who drive the diverging diamond near us on a daily basis and they say at least once a week a motorist who is not used to switching from the right to the left hand side of the road goes the wrong way, risking a head-on collision with oncoming traffic.
- cptskippy 10y agoRoundabouts can be intimidating a first but I love them now. I had just landed in Edinburgh after a 12 hour flight with an 8 hour delay and picked up my rental car which has the steering wheel on the wrong site AND it was standard shift, which I hadn't driven in 10+ years. I managed to pull out of the lot without hitting anything but nearly broke into tears when I hit the roundabout that was 3 lanes deep and a figure 8 to get on the A8. If my wife hadn't been there I probably would have just gone home. Looking back, the scariest part of this seems to be that I had to go through 2 other roundabouts to get to that figure 8 monster and I don't remember either of those.
- Symbiote 10y agoYou only see one bit at a time, and the actual circles are small. You yield to anyone already on the roundabout, unless they're exiting and won't cross your path. If it's empty, you yield to someone waiting to your right. Big, normal roundabouts with multiple lanes are much scarier...