I mean, nothing here is wrong but I have rarely had C being my primary issue when dealing with roundabouts. Idiots randomly entering the circle with no regard to other cars, THAT I've encountered quite frequently...
Ah yes, car E driven by Leeeerrroooooyyyy Jenkins 
Watching the shadow of the car, it takes out the top of a tree
Biggest problem I encounter is people failing to signal their exit
So I end up being C because I yield to a bunch of bozos who didn’t communicate they were’t going to come my way
That's because Americans don't know how to use them, once you live in a place where people use them OPs picture becomes your issue and you never see yours.
Americans have a hard time driving, period. They can’t “keep right unless passing”, they can’t understand 4-way stops, they can’t understand traffic circles, and so much more. So frustrating and dangerous here.
Or badly designed ones with a combo of yield and stop signs that effectively prevent the people with the stop sign from ever proceeding
C is yielding to a pedestrian, but carbrain D cannot fathom yielding to anything smaller than their car.
Were this a 2 lane roundabout, car d would be changing lanes to bypass car c, nearly striking that pedestrian
Not everybody is cut out to drive (i.e. to operate dangerous heavy machinery in a fast-changing environment with others depending on you handling the situation correctly). The problem is when we structure our societies requiring everyone to do so to participate.
My favorite is when the pink car stops to allow car 'A' to go 🙃
"if I randomly stop in the middle of the road so another car can get in, the car right behind me probably won't hit me"
Cyclist here.
Someone did that for me, so I tried to rush across the street to not hold up traffic.
Woke up a few weeks later in physical rehab, not remembering anything because of the TBI. Evidently I was in the hospital for about three weeks. No recollection!
I hate getting stuck behind the "I won't move until there are no cars anywhere on the planet" drivers.
Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It's a "close your eyes, pray and hit the gas" type of place.
No one will ever be able to invade the UK, they'll get stuck in this horror.
I've seen this so often before and I still don't understand why they didn't just build an ordinary roundabout. It's just six roads that meet there. That's not beyond ordinary roundabout capabilities. Who said "you know what, let's just do a circular arrangement of five roundabouts here, that's so much better than what people are used to"?
It's really five regular roundabouts circling one central roundabout.
ITT: People road raging over imaginary traffic.
Then there is this cluster fuck of a roundabout in my city Lansing, MI. Yes they do have a full STOP sign at each entrance to the roundabout for the crosswalk not just a stop for pedestrians which would make more sense. So you have to stop then yield to circle traffic then go. The entire roundabout is useless because once you stop you lose the benefit.
Roundabouts are not just for efficiency, they are for safety. A regular 4-way intersection introduces multiple conflicts between cars turning left and cars coming from the opposite direction.
A roundabout only has one conflict for each connecting street, and the right of way is clearly defined.
They also change the angle of impacts to be less severe since they should effectively eliminate a t-bone type impact.
I love roundabouts as a driver and as a pedestrian. I do admit that the double laned ones can feel like an utter cluster at times though
I am car C. I don't care if car D is pissed at me, because I have autism and driving is overwhelming for me. I'm being extra cautious because it takes me longer to process sensory input because I can't filter out the irrelevant things. Plus, I always make sure to check the crosswalks. I as a pedestrian have come very close to being hit while crossing multiple times and it seems most other drivers don't give a shit about pedestrians at all.
This is no excuse. If sensory issues make it difficult for you to drive correctly, then you should not be driving at all.
Because our society has widely available public transit and pedestrian/biking options, of course there is no overwhelming pressure to drive to be able to hold down a job and purchase food. /s
Seriusly, if you cant filter information or you are not able to react to your surroundings please dont drive. Half a second of reaction time more is a lot when you are driving a 2 ton car with 100kmh around... that si rhe reason drunk driving is not allowed or driving while high...
I live in freedumb land so cars are the only reliable option. I'd love to use public transit, but doing so would require me to at least drive to a park and ride, and the bus system where I live is unreliable. I'd love to immigrate to a country that isn't car brained, but I don't have the resources.
If you can't drive don't get behind the wheel
If the crosswalk is designed properly, a car approaching a traffic circle should only need to look at traffic, because the crosswalk would be well in front of the traffic circle. Once you pass the crosswalk, there only reason to stop is if there's a car in the way.
That's the great thing about traffic circles, they reduce the sensory input so drivers only need to worry about one thing at a time. At a regular intersection, you need to worry about pedestrians and potentially cars coming from two directions.
The safest thing to do at a traffic circle is enter and exit as efficiently as possible. If you stop unnecessarily, it'll take longer to get your car moving (increasing accident risk in the circle) and potentially cause backups in other intersections behind you.
Alternative scenario: C starts entering, A decides to FUCKING FLOOR IT, slams into C
Ive had the 'pink' car stop in the roundabout and motion, me as the 'A' car, to go. Like i dont even anymore.
I love how the meme assumes everyone trusts everyone else's driving. Utopian ideals, man.
You not following the rules because you assume everyone else isn't following the rules is why no one is following the rules...
When I have a Car D behind me, it's because they overestimate my car's acceleration capabilities.
Broke: Car C is being a responsible, safety focused driver
Woke: Car C is holding up traffic for no good reason
Bespoke: Car Pink is whipping around that turn at 80 kmph and going to kill everyone anyone, so don't sweet it.
Replace the pink car with a bicycle an A is suddenly not being in the mood to yield anymore.
I was going straight once and had to go back in and do a full turn (180° + 360°) because of that.
I remember almost hitting a cop in a roundabout somewhere in my city because they didn't follow the rules. It's a double-wide roundabout, where the outer ring must make the first right they come to and only the inner ring can continue forward or make a right. I needed to make a right from the inner lane, the cop was in the outer lane and DIDN'T TAKE THE EXIT, and I almost turned into the asshole, expecting him to turn like he was supposed to.
As the circle enlarges, the system approaches four T-intersections. What I want to know is: at what size circle do people lose their minds and become unable to comprehend how T-intersections work.
Fair play to people confused about multi-lane roundabouts though.
I'm always D
I knew a girl who was instructed to turn left at a roundabout, so she proceeded to turn left when merging into the roundabout.
Poor girl, fortunately everything was fine (she did fail, but no accidents) but that's a special kind of 'too literal' that loops back around to being dumb.
And that's why turn-by-turn navigation systems phrase it as "take the third exit from the roundabout" these days.
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