A Flow Chart For Roundabouts

"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo) 10/26/2018 at 15:35 • Filed to: None

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It’s really this simple. I should make an angriers on titled “should my dumbass come to a complete stop when using aroundabout” . I saw some one stop while in the circleand wait for the car coming in to enter... some people.

Aremmes > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 15:42

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YIELD.

“I” before “e” except after “c”. Except for “weird.”

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Aremmes 10/26/2018 at 15:45

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you cant expect me to spell words that don’t make sense. should be y ee ld. like feet. W hy do we need an i to make a longer E sound ?

facw > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 15:46

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Even that is pretty incomplete, since it doesn’t really get to the point that like merging onto an interstate, even if there is a car, you should speed up or slow down a bit to go in front of it or behind it (if possible) instead of just coming to a dead stop. Also, the more complicated case of multilane roundabout, where people have a bad habit of stopping for any car in the roundabout, even if it is not going to be in their lane.

All that said, I’m pretty happy when people don’t just always stop at the entrance . It’s especially bad when you look left see no one coming, and then look back forward and, oh shit!, the car in front of you has stopped for no particular reason.

facw > Aremmes 10/26/2018 at 15:49

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Or when sounding like an ‘A’ as in “neighbor” and “weigh” (and a whole bunch of other exceptions, that make this rule one of the shittiest you get drilled into your head in elementary school). Meanwhile it took me into my mid-20's to consistently get “ its” vs. “ it’s” right (doesn’t help that “ it’s” as a possessive makes perfect sense).  

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Aremmes 10/26/2018 at 15:51

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There are a ton of words that don't follow that rule

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 15:51

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[Is Roundabout a song by Yes]

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[Yes (ha ha)]

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[In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there]

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > facw 10/26/2018 at 15:53

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“ es pecially bad when you look left see no one coming, and then look back forward and, oh shit!, the car in front of you has stopped for no particular reason”

T his is my biggest pet peeve. The whole entire point of a round about is to prevent stopping...and T bone collisions but that’ s not as important.

That is why my flow chart makes no mention of stopping, slowing down sure, stopping is nearly a non option. You may need to stop if the vehicle you’re waiting for is a semi, but even then if you look ahead you should be able to plan for that so that you can yield rather than stop. 

Future next gen S2000 owner > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 16:09

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I feel like if a driver finds this decision guide useful, you should immediately remove the drivers license from said driver.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 16:23

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*yield

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > facw 10/26/2018 at 16:25

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I just intersperse “its” and “it’s”. Figure it means I’m right at least 50% of the time.

Same thing with stuff like “grey” and “gray” because I can never remember which is the American spelling and which is the British.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 10/26/2018 at 16:26

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You yeeld 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Future next gen S2000 owner 10/26/2018 at 16:27

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Because they didn’t already know this basic information, or because it’s wrong? 

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 16:31

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heathen

Discerning > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 16:36

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I would recommend yielding if a car is about to enter the traffic circle and is one entrance immediately to your left.

While you should both be able to go, if the circle is small and there is a speed differential, it could be messy if you both approach and execute as this diagram suggests.

WilliamsSW > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 16:44

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The first one.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Discerning 10/26/2018 at 17:25

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Yeah I guess I’m only thinking about the very simple roundabout I use everyday. It only has 3 exists and 3 entrances it’s a T. And it’s pretty big for what it needs to be so the next entrance is pretty far away. If that car to the left isn’t in the circle yet you have all the time in the world to go  

ranwhenparked > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 18:35

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I have one in my neighborhood, people typically do one of three things:

1) treat the roundabout like a 4-way stop sign and refuse to move until every other car in sight has successfully navigated through

2) ignore it entirely, close their eyes, floor it, and hope for the best (if in a pickup truck, this will sometimes mean driving straight over the concrete median)

3) detour around it by diverting  onto a 25mph residential side street, which they will fly down at 50mph.

smobgirl > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 19:41

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We have a community here where they replaced a lot of stoplights with traffic circles. That’s fine.

But they’re “flatter” for the primary road and thus they barely need to reduce speed to use it, so people coming from the  cross streets are still fucked. They need to arc enough to slow down traffic to be useful, otherwise just leave a light for us poor assholes trying to turn left.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > smobgirl 10/26/2018 at 23:01

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Yeah if the people going through can just drive straight then it doesn’t work 

Nom De Plume > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/26/2018 at 23:16

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smobgirl > ranwhenparked 10/26/2018 at 23:32

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Funny, four-way stops where I live operate like option 2. 

ranwhenparked > smobgirl 10/26/2018 at 23:34

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Around here, everyone just sits until someone works up the courage to go, then everyone behind that person floors it through like they’re in a motorcade.   

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Nom De Plume 10/26/2018 at 23:43

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At least they didn’t come to a full stop for no reason 

Nom De Plume > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/27/2018 at 00:00

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Not only that they allowed the white car to complete their plodding circumnavigation of the traffic round and cleared the road for other vehicles until emergency services could arrive.