So there's this awfully designed bit of road I have to deal with every morning, pic related.
I go the route marked in blue; my question is how should I deal with annoying bastards doing the thing in red? There's one or two every other day, normally I'm calm enough to just slow down and let them pass me.
t. got furiously honked at when I sped up and narrowly squeezed myself in front of one of them this morning
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don't be uptight and take the red route
you have to be flexible on the road
did you even look at the drawing?
Ride defensively, let them through, honk at them if they endanger you. Maybe show up at the police precinct and tell them people are doing shit there.
Also you don't indicate right at all when you go straight through, at least you wouldn't in my country (there'd be guidelines showing you the "straight ahead" lanes are actually one continuous, meandering lane.
yes
There's a road exactly like that near the hospital where I live. You should be indicating and moving over earlier, immediately after the right turn. Honk furiously and flip finger at any retard doing it wrong. It's their fault if they hit something.
It's not really required, but still common courtesy to indicate when switching lanes. There will always be some idiot who thinks you're trying to cut then off.
Flexible enough to go against road markings?
The main problem is who would be considered at fault if that would result in a collision.
this OP follow the rules of the road to fuck normies over for being tardlicks
yes just goes with the flow a road marking isn't going to hit your car
and just let people zip in
or OP could stop being upset because some dude passed him
ok
nothing you can do but indicate a bit earlier. if it's so bad that you have to stop and wait and have to block the left lane, I would try to remember as many plates as possible and call the police later.
>british road designs
absolutely heinous
I'm 90% sure there aren't any guidelines merging the through lanes. I was going to post a Google satellite image instead of a drawing but it's under construction both there and in street view. So apparently it's a recent thing, although it's been there since I moved and started going through there a year ago.
Yeah I indicate and change lanes right when the intersection ends since it doesn't feel right doing it in the middle of it, but I guess I could do it a bit earlier.
Most cars going straight do same thing I do, though most don't use an indicator. I only use it when there's someone on the other lane, otherwise there's little point.
looks like similar roads to my town, exept you got fancy road markings.
There, I fixed it. That will be $10,000.
that's crap for the people that come from the right, then want to go right and then left.
Just stay on the right, OP
This. This is implied. You shouldnt sperg out about it, traffic flows much better this way.... Like did you even think of how silly it would be if they didnt? Whole bunch of goobers (like you) darting over like they're dodging hot lava lol
If he stays in the right and someone does OP's usual route but is less attentive (OP could be in his blind spot) and collides with OP, who would be at fault? The guy not following the road markings I bet.
>Whole bunch of goobers (like you) darting over like they're dodging hot lava lol
I've been specifically attentive of what people do there since the design is so annoying/weird and most people (I'd say 80-90%) do the same thing I do. Or rather (I suppose) I'm just doing what I've seen most people else do, principle of least surprise and all that.
Not a fan of "implied" marking saying something else than actual marking. You could say it's implied if there were no markings at all, but there are markings saying something different.
>Sneak in at night with white road paint
>Paint a straight arrow where indicated there
>Profit
>americans can't even use roundabouts
indicate as soon as you leave the line, anyone ignoring the road markings is a moron and should simply be ignored, if they honk at you give them a cheery wave m8
ah yes very straightforward
If this is hard for you please hang up your driving gloves
fantastic cherry picking
>americans can't drive through this
Could I just go round and round on the innermost ring all day or would someone complain?
you could and someone would
Looks pretty straight forward.
WTF AM I LOOKING AT?>?!
Look at all of the pick-ups and suvs, where do you think this picture was taken?
Also, I'm a burger and I encounter roundabouts a couple times a day in my city.
>only america has pick-ups and suvs
amerilards truly are retarded
>LHD
>Trucks
Looks like America to me, friendo
No, but only America has this many American pickups in addition to absolutely pointless mowed lawns in the middle of fucking nowhere.
americans, everyone
what's the deal with the barriers blocking the top left lanes?
They're right, you know.
t.european
No, they're not.
t. european
>Americans have trouble following arrows
>americans cant even use roundabouts
neither can japs
Stop this meme. America has literally dozens of roundabouts.
kek
>so bootyblasted he had to trawl through google maps just to "prove me wrong"
Stay misinformed my European friend.
Or should I say... Comrade?
The UK alone has 10,000.
*Milton Keynes
Is this supposed to be impressive?
I'm from Lithuania and this is how this would be implemented here, you go straight to the right lane if you want to go straight or you merge to the lane turning left by signaling left. The extra space on the intersection is a buffer for those who want to go left after coming from the eastern road.
1. Lithuania isn't in Europe
2. It would be a dirt road
ok friend :^)
>Lithuania isn't in Europe
38000 in Spain.
>Lithuania isn't in Europe
>anything east of Germany
>Europe
>caring about modern germany
>geographically in europe
>in european union
>somehow not european
Okay then Lithuania, I'll grant you that Memelland is European.
Happy?
>anything west of Poland
>European
Lithuania here, I've been enjoying the popcorn since
Haven't been replying since ;^)
That's the racing line.
indicate earlier
He shouldn't indicate at all.
If the turn arrow is clear as day (which I assume it is) I'd be as aggressive towards them as possible.
If they're too retarded to know how arrows work it's their own fucking fault.
It's just a ring junction. (Nice cherry picking tho.) It looks way more complicated than it is, as you can go in either direction to get to your exit.
And it actually works a fuckload better than a roundabout or signalled junction for high volumes in a confined space.
>cbrd.co.uk
Yes. Someone would probably complain. Eventually.
Try it and tell us how long it takes for the popo to show up and ask how high you are.
Why would anyone design something like that?
>left hand traffic
>Britain
American "education", everyone
Brits drive on the left user.
is this b8 m8
If the lights for red and blue are the same and don't have different timings then take the red and you're doing the right thing.
american and can confirm
a shopping center put roundabouts in their parking lot and people very regularly drive the wrong way through them, dont yield whatsoever, etc despite the dozens of signs telling you what to do
Well, that's a side road and they're low priority.
OP, just stick a roundabout in.
england YES
Eventually, the police would show up and ask if you need help getting off the roundabout.
>AM I BEING DETAINED
> No, but you've been circling this roundabout for hours. Would you like an escort off it? Where are you going? Do you need directions?
Fucking why?
Dash cam up follow the rules make sure you get out screaming that you hurt your neck/goin into labor never rrfuse the ambulance ride.
>AM I FREE TO GO
*speeds up*
*continues circling middle*
>TALLADEEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAA
huh?
seconded
This
Are americans realy this stupid?
>Sir show me id and regristration please
>AM I BEING DETAINED AM I BEING DETAINED
>Sir we just want to see youre ID so we know you own the car
>I DONT HAVE TO ANSWER THAT AM I BEING DETAINED AM I BEING DETAINED
>Lithuania
give Vilnus back you mongrel t. Poland
Maybe some people want to be able to access their property you prick.
I'm a Wilniuk
>being so butthurt that you look up all eighty-two roundabouts in your country on google maps to check if that's one of them
How does this roundabout work when in OP's example he indicates people deliberately disobey road markings? Those jerky drivers would disobey roundabout rules too in order to take advantage of the other drivers' politeness.
In my city, there is something similar due to road offsets and roads were widened but major obstacles were not removable. To solve the problem you in Lithuania and what OP has, my city put up those flexible tall barrier poles. They are tall white plastic bendable pipes with reflective fluorescent orange striping. They would be placed in a pattern to block the left turn lane from going straight ahead. But because they are flexible, emergency vehicles and distracted drivers can still go thru them without wrecking the vehicle.
Unfortunately, I can confirm. I've done the wrong thing several times because I got confused on which exit to use because multiple signs were placed and I didn't know which exit those signs belonged to as it was a TIGHT small roundabout wedged into a small space.
There something similar in my city but we take it like pic related.
You give way to traffic from the right
if you don't you get T-boned, so generally people actually stick to the rules
>multiple clockwise roundabouts arranged in a circle result in a counter-clockwise roundabout in the middle
meshing gears turn in opposite direction
no
the whole point of the blinkers is to alert other drivers of what you're about to do so they'll be prepared
so you'll have to turn them on sooner
But you can still do that with the markings like that.