• darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl
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      6 months ago

      As a non-USA person, the existence of a four-way stop has always baffled me. I think it is the peak of awful road design. I don’t think you could make a worse intersection.

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        6 months ago

        The rules for how they’re supposed to work sound simple enough on paper. Unfortunately a lot of us in the US have poor reading comprehension skills.

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          6 months ago

          Assuming right-hand side of road driving and right-hand (anti-clockwise) directionality of travel.

          1. Look left. Clear? Proceed. Not clear? Yield.
          2. When safe to do so, enter the roundabout. Locate your exit.
          3. Exit the roundabout.

          Corollary: never stop in a roundabout. Go around more than once if you have to, but don’t stop.

          I assume roundabouts in Australia and England and UK colonies that drive on the left, all instructions are direction-opposite.

          Assuming left-hand side of road driving and left-hand (clockwise) directionality of travel.

          1. Look right. Clear? Proceed. Not clear? Yield.
          2. When safe to do so, enter the roundabout. Locate your exit.
          3. Exit the roundabout.

          Corollary: never stop in a roundabout. Go around more than once if you have to, but don’t stop.

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            6 months ago

            In step 1 it’s feels like it’s never clear and i don’t know how long to wait.

            • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.website
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              6 months ago

              It’s like a stop sign entering a busy road. You stay stopped until it’s clear. Never mind the impatient people behind you that probably don’t know how to use a roundabout as well. People seem to think that you just enter the roundabout without stopping and people in the roundabout have to yield to them. The people in the roundabout have the right of way so they can get out of it and make room for more.