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The protection is just by hiding half of the traffic beyond an obstacle, you can still get t-boned on the roundabout, but only by the cars from your right and n
by pandaman 3y ago
The protection is just by hiding half of the traffic beyond an obstacle, you can still get t-boned on the roundabout, but only by the cars from your right and not from both directions like on an intersection. I guess it's a plus but with the added danger of a head-on collision from people traversing the roundabout in the wrong way I won't say if it's net-positive safety-wise with any degree of confidence.
- Symbiote 3y agoI have never seen anyone go the wrong way around a roundabout, and I've never heard anyone tell me they've seen it. It's so rare you can ignore it.
- kubanczyk 3y agoIt can happen to foreigners in a left-side-traffic country when they are used to right-side traffic. Or vice versa.
- pandaman 3y agoI, on the other hand, have seen much fewer people running red (and that only when the red just switched on, without any cross traffic yet) than people taking left on a roundabout. So by your own method you can ignore people running red light on an intersection?
- macintux 3y agoI’ve seen it, once. Fortunately the motorcycle rider coming the correct way spotted her in time.
- Moru 3y agoI have seen two cars but we have an extraordinarily amount of roundabouts so plenty of samples. Those two was in a roundabout that is a bit straighter than normal roundabout so it is possible to turn the wrong way without too much hassle but you still have to be pretty unused to roundabouts to manage it.
- crote 3y agoIt also greatly reduces the impact of being t-boned by cars coming from the right. The car coming from the right has to slow down in order to take the roundabout. This means you are now getting t-boned by a car going 30mph rather than 60mph, which is the difference a fatal accident and walking away with barely a scratch. Cars going the wrong way is a non-issue. It is clearly signed how you're supposed to drive, and if they constructed it properly going the wrong way means you have to do a left turn of about 120 degrees. It feels so unnatural that you'll have trouble doing it on purpose, let alone accidentally.
- pandaman 3y ago> The car coming from the right has to slow down in order to take the roundabout. Why? We are talking about people, who don't pay attention and drive through an intersection, the same people won't pay attention and won't slow down, let pedestrians to cross and do other silly things in the video. > It is clearly signed how you're supposed to drive I don't know where you live, but roundabouts near me have no signage of any kind. They are intersections with the center removed, on one near my home I've been seeing the same woman doing a left turn once a week (we seemed to have the same schedule so going there around the same time). Not to mention that many people don't pay attention to whatever signage you will put up, it's not a magic spell.
- crote 3y agoWhy? Well, because it should be physically impossible not to. A roundabout forces you to take a sharp right turn, with a small turning radius. It's like turning right at a T junction. You simply can't do that at high speeds because you will flip your car. Most drivers have enough self-preservation to prefer slowing down over crashing their car.
- pandaman 3y agoI have a $6000 bill to show you for a physically impossible Toyota driving into my passenger door on a roundabout. A roundabout is just collection of T-intersections, nothing forces you to take right turn, you can drive straight, right, or left, physically. And as for the self-preservation, running a red light on a normal intersection is doubly dangerous as you are risking both frontal and side collisions from both sides, if self-preservation is how roundabouts are safer then a normal intersection is doubly so (it is not, people who cause accidents are not guided by self-preservation).