Funny

When you can't see over the middle circle, I'm also approaching roundabouts very slowly because some morons tend to play Tokyo drift. And blinking is anyway not a thing here :(

Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It's a "close your eyes, pray and hit the gas" type of place.

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.

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...

C is yielding to a pedestrian, but carbrain D cannot fathom yielding to anything smaller than their car.

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.

ITT: People road raging over imaginary traffic.

My favorite is when the pink car stops to allow car 'A' to go 🙃

I hate getting stuck behind the "I won't move until there are no cars anywhere on the planet" drivers.

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 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.

When I have a Car D behind me, it's because they overestimate my car's acceleration capabilities.

Alternative scenario: C starts entering, A decides to FUCKING FLOOR IT, slams into C

Car C is really just waiting for the pink car to arrive so that they can slam the gas as soon as it does.

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.

And the whole set of problems only exist because there are too many cars.

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

As the circle enlarges, the system approaches four T-intersections. What I want to know is: at what size circle to people lose their minds and become unable to comprehend how T-intersections work.

Fair play to people confused about multi-lane roundabouts though.

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.

The hard part is when back to back traffic for 15 miles worth of cars is coming from one direction and everyone else is either too scared to zipper merge or they allow the one direction to have perpetual right of way.

At some point of heavy traffic, the circle right of way must yield for zipper merging, else face my ass aggro merging and beeping at everyone who doesn't.