Only one EV charger at home?!

But then you get the wankers in BMWs with blue headlights.

I sit in the fast lane because I'm the fastest. Maybe once in every 5 hours someone wants to overtake, I see them in the mirror and move over long before they reach me.

It's a rule you can pass on the other side over there? Isn't that too complicated for Merkins?

I pass on whichever side is clear. F*ck the law.

Nothing is stopping you doing so. I do that all the time. Very easy when you're only checking for a smaller number of cars.

Unfortunately our councils keep removing them in favour of those stupid lights which leave junctions empty for millennia.

How is that difficult? Roundabouts are the simplest junctions, you only have to check one direction.

It's amazing how some people find it difficult to let an ambulance through. Some won't even run a red light to do so. I pushed someone doing that once :-)

Good on you.

Agreed. And there aren't speed cameras on roundabouts, so there's no real limit.

They do the opposite here. There's one near me which clearly has room for two cars to go round at once. They painted lines to indicate people should go round one at a time. I ignore them. I also ignore the slightly raised brick bit lorries can use to go over. Well so can a car.

We really really shouldn't.

On 8/4/23 22:46, Commander Kinsey wrote:[snip]

There used to be one of those here. Now its a complicated 5-way intersection. The thing I usually remember is empty trucks going too fast and falling over.

There is one big roundabout in some eastern US city that shows up regularly on Youtube car crash videos, frequently involving snow or ice.

I fail to see how you can have an accident on a roundabout. The only one I know of was the stupid one near Edinburgh with traffic lights actually on the roundabout!! I had never seen such a stupid thing before and assumed since I was on the roundabout, I had right of way. Apparently there was a red light I should have seen despite the glowing ball of fire 93 million miles away directly behind it.

I see no point in fixing bodywork. As long as the car runs.

There are some like that here and I've had several near misses. From one direction it looks like you're on the main road and the other guy is in a side road. But from his angle he thinks he's on the main road. There should always be give way lines. Mind you, the ones with give way lines they never repaint them, so they disappear. They have no money left after spending ****£10,000 PER SPEED BUMP****

They don't need to be equal. To have a gap for you to get out of road A, you simply need someone to turn into road A off the roundabout. So road A gets the same number of cars let out as go in.

No, you give way to traffic on the right (or left in the USA). There's no point in giving way to traffic going away from you.

There are a pair of them here. A 3 mile long road with a couple of farm roads at two points. So they put roundabouts on them. Virtually never is anyone using the farm road.

I wasn't aware of that rule. I thought I was breaking the law driving over the paint, especially since once many people do it, theres no more paint.

Except when they put up stupid green posts like this. The idea is since you can't see if your way is clear, you have to stop. All this does is either make everything slower, or make people not see something is coming and crash. I wonder how much all those pointless posts cost? The google camera can see over them, a driver in a passenger car cannot:

Who the f*ck designed that s*it?

You do not improve road safety with confusion. Confusion means nobody is sure where they're supposed to go and will slam into someone.

An excellent way fo causing skids or wearing out cars.

Who the f*ck thought it was a good idea to research road transport?

Indeed, I'd never remember who arrived first. Not sure how they work at all. Do Americans have amazing short term memories?

Sounds like France, where they have to put up signs telling people who has priority. They used to (and still do in some towns) have the f****ng insane idea you must be polite. Always let someone out of a side road. I scared the s*it out of a Frenchman when I didn't. At well over the speed limit. I think they also have a law stating you must help someone who's injured. F*ck off, I'll be charitable if I have the time and think I'll be useful, and I like the look of the idiot who's f***ed up. If you have a beard, you stay where you are.

I can't work out WTF that is. Is it some kind of layby? You turn left off the road the camera car is on, and all you get is a no entry sign and a road back onto where you were.

And never told anyone. Why do they think they can just change laws and catch people out? Are we supposed to study every new law as it comes out?

Here's an idea, make every law sensible. Then we just follow common sense and know we're not breaking the law.

So those white circles aren't speed bumps then? :-) It wears my car out less not to swerve round them, it also means I have less chance of skidding.

I've never been in trouble for roundabouting, what are you referring to?

In towns there are so many signs, you never spot those. And if the give way white lines on the road aren't there, you just keep going.

We should make the council legally responsible for every accident caused by those stupid things. Actually jail a council member.

You can use traffic calming to your advantage. If you're going double the speed limit, the car coming the other way will stop, regardless of who is supposed to.

How stupid do you have to be to think it's ok to add more cars to the roundabout before letting them leave?

You need a license for each state?

I never studied for mine (and they only introduced written in the UK in about 1990), the answers were multiple choice and obvious.

I once played chicken with a policeman. I had a 1988 3.5 litre V8 Range Rover and wanted to change lane in a rather stationary queue. His little 5 door hatchback Vauxhall (GM) s*it was in my way. He refused to let me change lane, so being an automatic it was very easy to get it to creep forwards at 0.5mph. At some point he realised the space he wanted to get into to block me was too small, and the vehicle I'd bought for £300 wouldn't suffer much damage. He gave me a snarl and I gave him a smile.

Why do Americans confuse the term for the amount of crop produced with the term for letting someone else go first?

Must be pretty OCD to apply bleach to a road.