They’ve started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.
Roundabouts are even better.
I love roundabouts, but goddamn are they annoying when you’re stuck in a route starvation situation. I’ve had bad days when I’m stuck for close to 5 minutes at one near my house depending on time of day and approach route.
Sounds like you need a 2-laner and drivers who understand how they work
It’s already a 2/2.5 lane roundabout, but if you’re on entrance 3, while 1 and 2 are busy as hell, you may not have a window to safely go through.
This roundabout is at a major intersection just off of a freeway and between like 3 different shopping centers, so it’s awful to go through at rush hour. I’ve gotten good at eyeballing windows that scare the piss out of my wife in that roundabout.
I mean sure, but I’ve been stuck at lights that long too
I didn’t realize there was a difference
Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.
Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.
Only 74 hours?
Gas is expensive over here.
>my citizens in Cities:Skylines
LANE CHANGE
Don’t forget to put a toll booth on every street
Look kids, big ben! Parliament!
Big ben! Parlament!
I thought I’d look. That roundabout is still there. But, sadly it is now concrete and not grass in the middle…
How to correct (or exacerbate) uneven tire wear:
Drive around the other way at night when nobody sees it.
Or visit Brexitania!
Take this, Germany:
wanted to look this up, here’ the link for anyone else who wants to see it
https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Magic+Roundabout,+Swindon,+UK/@51.5626913,-1.7719816,191
zooming it, it feels like a pinball playfield :)
The truly mind-bending part is that the inner circle runs backward.
What’s up with the strange assphault squares in between the inner and outer? Did they used to have grass or statues or something?
I do this one in Australia mutiple times daily. It’s great.
Upvoted in horror
What in tarnation
I live in NL and we’re soaked in roundabouts, but this … this thing, it scares me.
Because the (my) American mind in fact cannot even begin to comprehend this, I’ve freedomized it so the drivers are on the right:
that’s the isekai portal
Do you have to run it clockwise thrice on each circle to open it up?
The Longest Roubdabout by Germany
I really wanna know what they put in to Google to make it spit out that time estimate.
Probably a scripted route.
Holy shit, they took the same route as my last bike tour!
2,219km is only 1,378mi… that’s about the distance from the southern tip of California to the top of Washington State. Not even the width of the US.
It also would only take around 20 hours.
20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that’s at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training
Yeah, that’s some serious donuts they’re making! Is there a German idiom for driving rapidly in a circle?
In Germany, they don’t say “driving rapidly in a circle,” they say “Was soll der Scheiß? Pass doch auf, verdammt!” and I think that’s beautiful
Truly the language of love.
You never heard about Kennedy in Berlin, eh?
I heard he claimed he was a kind of jelly-filled donut, but not that he went joyriding.
No, but it’s no problem to spontaneously invent one, so I call it “hochgeschwindigkeitskreiseln”
“Arschlochfahren”
Self-limiting system. As you black out, the circle gets looser, the Gs fall off, you wake up more, turn tighter, the Gs build again…
Or the circumference of your mum’s fat arse
Or the size of your Mom’s big butt.
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Be careful spending that much time there or maybe wear protection, I’ve heard that route is still a bit radioactive
American here, you can absolutely drive at least one more hour than that. Idiots.
Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany. It’s unenforceable in most cases because it’s easy to make one up but if you keep circling a roundabout, there is a case to be made against you.
Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany.
Completely reasonable, but somehow I’m still surprised that this is a thing.
You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.
Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.
You’ve been turning right since at least '80…and you started far on the right already.
Hey!
Don’t forget Nixon.
You can pick up a coffee mug with a $9.99 price tag, then be asked to pay $10.74 at the register. The German mind cannot comprehend this
Oregon has entered the chat
Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.
I thought that was JC Penney’s
E: it was
Imo it would only work here if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.
They could also first have both prices and slowly make the “before taxes” less noticeable over years
A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles
Which are only added in fine print on the price tag usually. But it’s more like 8-25 cents for cans, most plastic bottles, and some glass bottles.
I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald’s. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier ‘wow perfect, what are the chances’
She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.
neither can the Oregonian mind
Not any sane mind can comprehend this.
All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.
There is zero reason that can’t be on the price tag.
There isn’t zero reason, you’re just unwilling to accept the reasons.
Prices tags are normally prepared using computers which are famously good at maths. Here in the UK, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different rules for tax on certain products and yet everything is advertised with the final price.
I would love tax-included pricing (or maybe VAT?), though from what I know:
TV ads, sponsorship spots, circulars all complicate this.
Prices are printed on packaging for many things too, books, magazines, bags of potatoe chips.
So then stores would have to cover the manufacturer price with a higher one just in their store. Which is a waste of time and material if you can just condition a population to ignore the price jump at the register.
And counties that have their own sales taxes. So not even within the state is the rate the same.
So does Europe.
Europe is not a country, and Germany is not a state.
Germany certainly is a state if you use the right definition.
But the point is the same right? Whether you call them countries or states or counties or municipalities, there are multiple levels of government with their own distinct tax structures, but Europe has no problem displaying the final sale price on their tags. Why would this be harder to implement in the US than in Europe?
None of these a reasons the store, which posts it’s own prices and barcodes, can’t just include the total on the tag, or better yet set the price to the nearest whole number (or division of .10/.25) and take the tax out of that full amount. I know because I live in the midwest, I worked in retail/grocery store and our store piloted a test program of doing exactly that. Customers were incredibly happy and our overall sales actual went up because people who didn’t normally shop with us started to because it was easier to budget.
We got shut down by corporate beancounters who were freaking out because we were supposedly making less money. Except our sales and profits were up for the 8 weeks we demo’d the program and 4 weeks after we were forced to stop sales dropped below our year-on-year average. Literally forced to stop a program that benefited the customer and retailer because corporate greed couldn’t tolerate the customer not being screwed.
I can comprehend it, but I’m certainly not happy about it
sane
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🎶Insane in the taxbrain🎶
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The wheel and circular geometry are relatively new Inventions.
74 hours without the stops!
