People who don't know it's their right of way at mini roundabouts.

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Had one the other night, approaching a 3 mini roundabout and the one chap there to my right is sitting there looking at me. I initially stop as does the guy to the left of me arriving at the same time.

We stare at Mr Nervous for a while (I can only assume he was busy wetting his pants or something), after a couple of seconds I got bored and hoofed it.

Anyone who's too scared to take their own right of way should either be shot or given steroid injections.
 
I had a police car pull out in front of me at a mini roundabout. I missed him, not by much. He put his hand up to apologise, however I am pretty sure if I'd hit him he would have 'put his hand up to indicate for me to stop'. :rolleyes:

I bet if I'd done the same to him I would have had some bonus points for my licence! :mad:
 
Dabbles said:
I had a police car pull out in front of me at a mini roundabout. I missed him, not by much. He put his hand up to apologise, however I am pretty sure if I'd hit him he would have 'put his hand up to indicate for me to stop'. :rolleyes:
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Of course he would have asked you to stop, its a reportable road accident and you/them would be breaking the law if either of you didn't.
 
The best is where there are people waiting to join the roundabout at every entrance. I love that 5 seconds where everyone's looking at each other, wondering who's going to be the first to move. Before you know it someone has pulled out, suddenly everyone's moving, and you feel silly that there was ever a problem at all.
 
Rich_L said:
Americans and 'traffic circles' are always a source of entertainment and anxiety :p
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I actually relish them, they are so much better than regular intersections. If you understand how right of way works and have common sense they shouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately that rules out a majority of drivers here...

There seemed to be an abundance of them in New England, but haven't found many in the southern states.
 
naefeart said:
Road/highway discipline in general confuses yanks. You should experience a four-way stop. Good lord.
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Yeah, it's not hard to figure out how it works. Of course if people weren't on the cell phone, trying to figure out their GPS navigation, or stuffing their face maybe they would actually be able to pay attention.
 
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Richie said:
Of course he would have asked you to stop, its a reportable road accident and you/them would be breaking the law if either of you didn't.
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Don't be stupid. His report would have said 'I put my hand up to instruct the driver to stop and then he hit me'. :rolleyes:

Of course I would have stopped if I indeed had hit him, but I bet I would be getting the blame!
 
BoostedDC2 said:
I actually relish them, they are so much better than regular intersections. If you understand how right of way works and have common sense they shouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately that rules out a majority of drivers here...

There seemed to be an abundance of them in New England, but haven't found many in the southern states.
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If you understand them great, its everyone else I'm concerned about.

I.e. when you see a car enter the roundabout opposite you, you might think it's clear until a truck enters from the left barreling in front of the car, straight in front of you and exits to your right. Not so fun :p
 
It's great fun when no-one knows who should go first when you are all there lol. I normally just laugh, go for it, and then they all follow suite afterwards lol.

What really gets me is when people don't indicate when turning off a roundabout, that makes me FUME.
 
Rich_L said:
If you understand them great, its everyone else I'm concerned about.

I.e. when you see a car enter the roundabout opposite you, you might think it's clear until a truck enters from the left barreling in front of the car, straight in front of you and exits to your right. Not so fun :p
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I've never really come across a roundabout where I didn't have enough vision to see the scenario you mention developing. I'm sure they exist and must be a bit of white knuckle experience, but I have not come across them. I have had the joy of someone stopping in the middle of the roundabout, apparently in fear or confusion, right in front of me.
 
Have a cracking double mini roundabout near where we live.

Always raises a smile when 4 cars are at the front of the queues and think the person to their right is about to go.

Divide by Zero!!!!
 
Cripple said:
What really gets me is when people don't indicate when turning off a roundabout, that makes me FUME.
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This frustrates me greatly. I'll be approaching a roundabout, see a car coming, not indicating and then pull off the exit just before my entrance, meaning I have stopped or slowed nearly to a stop needlessly and burning more of my previous fuel to accelerate again. Selfish ****ers!
 
Zefan said:
The best is where there are people waiting to join the roundabout at every entrance. I love that 5 seconds where everyone's looking at each other, wondering who's going to be the first to move. Before you know it someone has pulled out, suddenly everyone's moving, and you feel silly that there was ever a problem at all.
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Had this when I was in Phoenix a few years ago. I was waiting to cross, on foot, at one entrance/exit of a 4 way junction as 4 cars arrived, 1 for each entrance/exit. Stood there for 2 minutes watching them all edge out at the same time with a wait of around 10-15seconds between moving, but always at the same time till eventually 3 of them were stuck in the middle with the 4th deciding he no longer wanted to play and had stopped to watch.
The facial expressions ranged from bemusement to fury to hilarity (my one) :p
 
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