RE: Video: When Roundabouts Go Bad
Monday 24th January 2011
It's hard to know who's to blame for the bizarre driving in this video - the drivers or the people who made the roundabout.
Video: When Roundabouts Go Bad
What not to do on a gyratory...
Mind you, considering just how many people mis-read the layout of this roundabout in German (we think) surburbia, perhaps the fault lies with the road planners.
After all, when you think how many people in the UK entirely ignore painted mini-roundabouts, a larger one that's represented by nothing more than a white line is bound to encourage confusion and abuse. And there's certainly plenty of that in this video....
Ps - if you don't want the world's most annoying tune stuck in your head all day, we suggest you watch the video on mute
Discussion
Dan_1981 said:
I don't understand why it's causing so many problems?
Its just a roundabout?
Do they not have them in Germany normally?
The road markings leading up to it would promote veering to the right so why did so many people ignore that and go straight ahead? Clearly its a roundabout, what a bunch of idiots... Its just a roundabout?
Do they not have them in Germany normally?
TBH it look slike lack of observation and a load of people pre-programmed into their daily driving habbits - not recognising a new road layout.
A lot of the people shown in the video were IMO correctly cutting over the offending paint where there were no other road users. What got me was the number of people who were just going to drive right on - hence I presume this was recently a cross roads with the through road running from top to bottom.
Mini roundabouts are not there to drive round when you don't have to, think of the negative environmental impact if we all did that... Traffic planners in Edin have been ripping up roundabouts and replacing them with traffic lights - end result - MASSIVE DELAYS and pollution. Numpties, just like the idiots who narrow road junctions and sanctioned traffic calming measures which discriminate against small cars and promote the ownership of 4x4's... Seems the only people who can use small cars are rural owners who don't go offroad and have a 4x4 for the winter.
A lot of the people shown in the video were IMO correctly cutting over the offending paint where there were no other road users. What got me was the number of people who were just going to drive right on - hence I presume this was recently a cross roads with the through road running from top to bottom.
Mini roundabouts are not there to drive round when you don't have to, think of the negative environmental impact if we all did that... Traffic planners in Edin have been ripping up roundabouts and replacing them with traffic lights - end result - MASSIVE DELAYS and pollution. Numpties, just like the idiots who narrow road junctions and sanctioned traffic calming measures which discriminate against small cars and promote the ownership of 4x4's... Seems the only people who can use small cars are rural owners who don't go offroad and have a 4x4 for the winter.
king thing
seems like an appropriate smiley 
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