I'm glad my city uses roundabouts instead of 4 way stops.
It's perfectly normal to thread 1 metre behind a car in a roundabout.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2024
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I went to America once and was totally and completely dumbfounded by the concept of a four way stop intersection.
I implore you to encourage your city to replace them all with roundabouts, so that you may enjoy one less stressful thing existing. ๐
Your visit clearly didn't include witnessing Americans attempting to navigate a roundabout, if you think that would be less stressful...
There was a somewhat popular video from my area of a driver launching their car through the middle of a newly built roundabout directly into a Taco Bell.
While I would say its technically an outlier, its still indicative of most American drivers relationship with roundabouts
Agree. American. I get so anxious when I see one ahead of me. The only thing worse than riding with me through a roundabout is riding with my husband through a roundabout.
This often stems from a general breakdown of the right-of-way rotation. At least in my city, if you don't move quickly, nobody is going to wait to see if you realize that it's your turn. They'll just skip you. You learn quickly that if you don't at least start rolling as your predecessor clears, you end up waiting for an extra rotation at every intersection.
I was taught something along these lines. If they hesitate, just go. People who hesitate will keep hesitating most of the time and you end up in that "you go, no you go, ok I'll go, no you go..." stalemate and much more time is wasted. If you start to go and they do too, but then they hesitate and stop, just continue going if it's safe. You'll clear the intersection while they continue to be unsure and you solve the problem immediately. Obviously keep an eye out and be prepared, but 99% of the time it works just fine.
Yeah, I'm not knocking the strategy. It really just depends on the driving culture of your specific area. I always have to remember to adjust my aggressive city driving when I venture out into areas with a more sedate driving style.
Oh absolutely. It's very area dependent. I always feel like when I drive into a city I have to prepare for battle. But then in my particular area you really have to watch out for that one last car that is gonna make the light even if it turned red a second ago. So being too quick there is definitely a bad thing.
I feel you. Also, wait half a second after the light turns green before touching the gas, specially if the intersection is clear. Statistically speaking, this might literally save your life one day. Bunch of assholes think they can squeeze in at high speed on the first beats of a red light and end up T boning someone.
I don't know about you, but my city now has both an all-stop break, and a pedestrian-only break before the light turns green. There's a vanishingly low chance of cars still chasing the yellow once the cross-traffic light is green here. Not to say they don't completely blow the light sometimes, but the risk is probably about the same, no matter how long you wait.
in my town, green doesn't mean 'go'. it means look out for the moron half-a-block back on the cross street, still gunning to make the light they missed.
Same. Green means "there's probably one more car still coming, wait a second for him to zip right in front of you".