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> 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 a
by 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).