D car should be honking
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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I hate getting stuck behind the "I won't move until there are no cars anywhere on the planet" drivers.
I am car C. I don't care if car D is pissed at me, because I have autism and driving is overwhelming for me. I'm being extra cautious because it takes me longer to process sensory input because I can't filter out the irrelevant things. Plus, I always make sure to check the crosswalks. I as a pedestrian have come very close to being hit while crossing multiple times and it seems most other drivers don't give a shit about pedestrians at all.
If the crosswalk is designed properly, a car approaching a traffic circle should only need to look at traffic, because the crosswalk would be well in front of the traffic circle. Once you pass the crosswalk, there only reason to stop is if there's a car in the way.
That's the great thing about traffic circles, they reduce the sensory input so drivers only need to worry about one thing at a time. At a regular intersection, you need to worry about pedestrians and potentially cars coming from two directions.
The safest thing to do at a traffic circle is enter and exit as efficiently as possible. If you stop unnecessarily, it'll take longer to get your car moving (increasing accident risk in the circle) and potentially cause backups in other intersections behind you.
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Yea, all the circles around me car c would be cutting off the pink car by the time they actually got moving into the circle if they were stopped. The circles are not that big.
They shouldn't be stopped.
That's why you shouldn't come to a stop. Coast slowly from further away so you can accelerate easier into the circle
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Seriusly, if you cant filter information or you are not able to react to your surroundings please dont drive. Half a second of reaction time more is a lot when you are driving a 2 ton car with 100kmh around... that si rhe reason drunk driving is not allowed or driving while high...
Thankfully driving with undiagnosed mental conditions are not criminalized in the states.
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This is no excuse. If sensory issues make it difficult for you to drive correctly, then you should not be driving at all.
Because our society has widely available public transit and pedestrian/biking options, of course there is no overwhelming pressure to drive to be able to hold down a job and purchase food. /s
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There's one "roundabout" that I know of that doesn't have this sign:
But instead has a few of these in the middle:
You HAVE TO give way to the right while driving on the "roundabout".
Mental.
Thanks for your time.
That’s called a “rotary”.
These idiotic roundabouts used to be everywhere in France. Most of them have been converted to inside-has-right-of-way but a few of the old ones still exist, with traffic lights on the inside.
I guess in low traffic areas it's alright. Anything else is just madness.
Yield to traffic in circle, not yield to anything in your perspective quadrant of the circle.. Leave grandpa be, he's running on nothing but cortisol and spite for death. And try to circulate the cabin air, quit huffing the exhaust from tailgating. The don't test emissions in roundabout country...
Not everybody is cut out to drive (i.e. to operate dangerous heavy machinery in a fast-changing environment with others depending on you handling the situation correctly). The problem is when we structure our societies requiring everyone to do so to participate.
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The pink car is yielding incorrectly, and may cause an accident.
My city has two circles, both one lane with 3 entry/exits. Actually the one not near me might have more, but I know its one lane. Amazing how many people have trouble with them.
The pink car isn’t yielding at all, it’s in motion
I love roundabouts as a driver and as a pedestrian. I do admit that the double laned ones can feel like an utter cluster at times though
Gotta be aggressive for those
you aught to try the kind that’s 3 lanes going to 5 different places and a tram running through the middle!
(this was the most dangerous intersection in my city for a while… they’ve added traffic lights… i do also very much love roundabouts)
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My favorite is when the pink car stops to allow car 'A' to go 🙃
Oh God I love that its just so hulaeuosly dumb when it happens
I just put my hands in the air and yell at them
"if I randomly stop in the middle of the road so another car can get in, the car right behind me probably won't hit me"
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