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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow would you like to drive through this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
And on the left side of the road to boot.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)in his grave!
petronius
(26,604 posts)Although if you follow the arrows it doesn't seem like it would be that bad, so long as you didn't come up to it by surprise and it wasn't backwards. I remember the first time I encountered big roundabouts in Europe (nothing like that, of course) and I was like "What-The-Fuck!!??!", but they felt normal pretty quickly...
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)I wonder about the other three.
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)That's a crop circle rendered in pavement.
Damn You ET!!!!
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Indeed.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)You can just keep going in a circle until you have the courage to break off in the direction you really want to go. Or until you run out of gas.
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)BainsBane
(53,072 posts)I hate roundabouts. I always get mixed up in them.
u4ic
(17,101 posts)I'm used to them. Driving on the opposite side of the road would have me confused though!
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)The animation doesn't include the outer ring of clockwise traffic along with the shown inner counter clockwise.
Initech
(100,104 posts)MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts).
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... assume a white-knuckle grip on the steering wheel, POINT the car and mash down
on the gas, counting in large, large LARGE part on luck.
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I've also negotiated them in Germany, where everyone calmly and matter-of-factly
maneuvers around them as though they're driving in a parking lot (everyone, that is...
except white-knuckled me).
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surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)... or, I should probably have said anticlockwise.
I'm wondering about pedestrians, though. How would a pedestrian cross to the other side when there is traffic?
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)and swearing a bunch until I run out of gas or hit another car.
I would go a few miles out of the way to avoid that.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)JCMach1
(27,574 posts)in sensible stop lights... if this roundabout were there, it would be full of cars trying to drive 120kph