• ulterno@programming.dev
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    6 hours ago

    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.

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      45 minutes ago

      I’m a daily cyclist and I think I’d be terrified to bike through a full roundabout. They’re absolutely marvelous designs for throughput that doesn’t require complex signal automation, but the flip side of that is they’re pretty hostile if you’re not a motor vehicle. Any truly good roundabout design should include pedestrian and cycle paths along the periphery that have priority when crossing the circles entrances.

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      6 hours ago

      All cars will yield to a bicycle in the UK, because less protected members of the road traffic always take priority.

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        3 hours ago

        All cars should yield.

        When I used to cycle, I’d just go on the pavements at large roundabouts. Not much point in being right but dead.

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          2 hours ago

          I personally never had any issues. British drivers are very polite and cautious.

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        4 hours ago

        Welp, I’m not in the UK.
        Over here, people go with - what is the most threatening to themselves - and it really feels weird that people who have presumably passed the driving exam are worse at roundabouts than me.