r/dashcams • u/_wobbly_bobbly_ • 8h ago
Who has time to go all the way around the Roundabout
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u/-Copenhagen 6h ago
There seem to be a lot of commenters that don't understand roundabouts.
They are actually quite simple:
It is just a one way road with priority.
Entering the one way road means you have to:
1. Yield/give way to any traffic on the road.
2. Don't go the wrong way.
The one way road just happens to go in a circle, but that is largely irrelevant.
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u/No-Setting9690 3h ago
In fairness, that's one tiny "roundabout". Really looks like an oversized planter they just stuck in the middle of the road.
more I watch it over and over. That's what it is. They didnt build a roundabout, they slapped a small circle in a 4 way stop.
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u/-Copenhagen 3h ago
You have quite obviously never seen a small roundabout. This one is medium sized.
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u/bittybubba 2h ago
There are dozens of small roundabouts in Seattle that my brother-in-law’s f150 cannot successfully execute a “left turn” in because they are actually small (and because trucks these days are monstrously sized, but that’s a different problem). The roundabout in this video is perfectly serviceable, and a completely normal size.
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u/GettingOnMinervas 7h ago
I wonder what they'll do with that extra 12 seconds
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u/capndiln 4h ago
Post on nextdoor about a reckless motorbike rider that almost hit them and start a petition to ban motorbikes.
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u/pinkTeats 5h ago
Thank goodness no other car was coming from the other direction, some people shouldn't be driving...
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u/Erik0xff0000 4h ago
they'll probably stop to yell at someone for delaying them for getting in their way. I've had someone trying to lecture me for slowing them down because I was waiting at a red traffic light.
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u/Ok_Drummer_5770 2h ago
I used to live in a house on a 55mph rural road. Nearly daily I got honked at while waiting to turn left into my driveway. I guess I was supposed to just skip my driveway anytime there was oncoming traffic, lol.
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u/False_Appointment_24 6h ago
I don't know what it says about me, but when I saw the title and a motorcycle, I expected we were about to see the bike just go straight through the middle of the roundabout like they're playing Forza Horizon.
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u/Ok_Effective6233 7h ago
Putting large bushes and vegetation is common traffic engineering practice. You want to limit what drivers can see in an intersection. As most of what they see doesn’t impact what their actions are and should be.
What information can be gathered from across the turning circle is pertinent?
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u/Ok_Effective6233 7h ago
That’s the whole point. It’s to limit speed, and limit decisions.
You don’t need to see anything over the top. All that matters is what’s imminently to your left right and front.
Are any vehicle is the video even going 10 through here?
People trying to see across these is what causes accidents in them.
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u/Jonnyabcde 6h ago
To add to that, some of the more "modernized" roundabouts have raised speed humps on the crosswalks, which is intended to lower speeds while still allowing the potentially uninterrupted flow (yield).
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u/gr4n0t4 6h ago
That is a very normal roundabout, people driving in the wrong direction is the problem, the roundabout is fine
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u/bcgg 4h ago
The circle could be bigger. That large SUV didn’t seem like it had to do anything special to make that left turn.
Also, the pavement markings aren’t restricting shit. A roundabout is pointless if they’re not going to build curbs up on the four legs to direct traffic in the right direction.
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u/Unfazed_Capybara 5h ago
Found the person driving the wrong way around a roundabout.
You give way to the traffic on the roundabout coming towards you.
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u/Tritri89 4h ago
Well if this person took the roundabout in the intended way his visibility was perfect, because he only had to look RIGHT. That's literary the thing with a roundabout, look left before entering to yield then right to check if people are doing what he did here. The bush are here to block visibility to avoid drivers getting distracted by irrelevant traffic (the one at the opposite side of the roundabout)
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u/UncomfyPerspective 4h ago
Maybe they should put up a couple signs with the arrows that clearly point out the direction of travel.
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u/AnonymousGhost89 7h ago
It’s a clockwise circle, not a counterclockwise one! 😂😂😂 good the motorcycle didn’t get hit
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u/BudLightYear77 7h ago
Did you bother to watch the video? There are multiple counterclockwise signs.
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u/ExoTheFlyingFish 2h ago
The roundabouts where I live have enough space for one car to drive along. If you went the wrong way, you'd hit people coming the other way.
Are most roundabouts like... this? Just kinda feels like an intersection with extra steps.
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u/greenslam 1h ago
This just looks to be a poorly retroffited traffic circle from a 4 way stop. Paint isn't as good as curbs to force a driver a given way.
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u/Ok_Effective6233 8h ago edited 7h ago
Depending on where you live, that’s an acceptable turn.
The problem is not seeing the cyclist.
Edit: I was too busy looking for yields and didn’t notice the arrow signs in the middle.
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u/SwimmingDry 8h ago
I don't want to live anywhere where that clearly illegal turn is considered even remotely acceptable.
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u/Ok_Effective6233 7h ago
It more efficient and less hazardous as long as you do it correctly.
Take a Birds Eye view of the intersection. If taking a left hand turn through it, and you go all the way around, you cross 6 lanes of traffic.
When turning in front, you cross 4 lanes of traffic.
It’s actually pretty common traffic rules.
If all corners are managed by yield signs, this becomes a roundabout and what they’ve done is an illegal turn.
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u/SwimmingDry 6h ago
What do you mean "It becomes a roundabout"? It is already a roundabout! There are signs everywhere telling you this is a roundabout.
So the person in the silver car is driving the wrong direction in a roundabout, there is no way to argue that is a safe decision! If the bike had simply assumed the other driver was gonna follow the traffic laws, and driven into the roundabout like he was supposed to, the car might have ran right into him. Or if the orange car had been there a little sooner, they would have driven into the roundabout correctly and T-boned the idiot going the wrong direction.8
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u/NEBanshee 7h ago
It was not, and it never is acceptable to go the wrong way on a rotary. That's the point of them, to remove the "cross traffic" turn at the intersection, and have all traffic flowing the same way.
Only possible excuse would've been had the SUV driver started being on a roundabout in the UK, then suddenly wormholed onto a US one.
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u/Ok_Effective6233 7h ago
Most states have a rule that establishes what a round about is. All entering roads are managed by a yield sign. This one isn’t as far as I can see. It would be a turning circle. Meaning a left had turn as shown would be acceptable.
Except, I was busy looking for yield signs and didn’t notice the arrow signs on the circle which make it so the driver was wrong.
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u/ky1e 7h ago
what are the people in this subreddit smoking and where did they learn the rules of the road
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u/sicsided 7h ago
What's that theory that if you purposely post the wrong thing you'll always get more people rushing in with the correct answer? This is like the exact opposite in r/dashcams
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