Dumbasses

It really blew my mind when I saw people actually behaving properly in Huntersville earlier this year when the stoplight went out at one of the busiest intersections in town. It was slow going, but people were being patient and considerate for the most part. Of course, there were the people that went 4 in a row through the intersection without stopping, but most people weren't being idiots.
 
Give them a round about and they lose their minds.

It would help if most of the roundabouts weren't so small diameter.

Usually my roundabout math goes like this: It's a 25 MPH zone, with no speed posted for the roundabout, and I barely need to slow down to enter the roundabout because it's not Florida and I know how a turn works. You enter the roundabout in front of me, after I'm already well over half way around. You're going 5 MPH. You think I'm also going 5MPH (or maybe 3MPH because it's a pickup truck), because anything greater would be reckless insanity and would cause me to detach from the Earth's orbit and impact the sun. Odds are, I'm going to make you shit yourself when I honk at you while almost plowing your drivers side door. Or, you slam on the brakes in front of me because you panic and have no idea what to do after royally fucking up, other than completely blocking the path of another vehicle in motion. Or, you react to the impending doom you just created, and decide to speed up, smashing a curb and folding your Volvo's control arm because you ran out of talent at 7 MPH (yes, I saw someone do that). People pull into parking spaces faster than that (but probably not me, because I drive a pickup truck).

I'm sure everyone has been to this same roundabout before?
 
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I have a feeling that the same asshats who run stop signs and then drive slow in front of me are the same ones who stop at yield signs when there's nothing coming.

I saw 3 people run a red light to turn right (none of them stopped, it looked like the first was was towing the other two). Cop in the cross street turn lane, flips on the lights and bloops the siren, pulls out of the turn lane. All 3 people pulled their cars onto the shoulder at the same time (again, like they were physically connected). They all knew what they had done, it was just awesome. I wish I stuck around to see the rest of that scene unfold....
 
I love roundabouts. They make so much more sense than a damn 4 way stop and a lot of times are more effective than a light. Just take up more space. And are generally a lot more fun to barrel through in a small 5 spd car.
Agree they make the diameter to small, it really screws with inertia. One near me, a lot of people just veer slightly right and go across cutting off the circle and just go over it.
 
It would help if most of the roundabouts weren't so small diameter.

Usually my roundabout math goes like this: It's a 25 MPH zone, with no speed posted for the roundabout, and I barely need to slow down to enter the roundabout because it's not Florida and I know how a turn works. You enter the roundabout in front of me, after I'm already well over half way around. You're going 5 MPH. You think I'm also going 5MPH (or maybe 3MPH because it's a pickup truck), because anything greater would be reckless insanity and would cause me to detach from the Earth's orbit and impact the sun. Odds are, I'm going to make you shit yourself when I honk at you while almost plowing your drivers side door. Or, you slam on the brakes in front of me because you panic and have no idea what to do after royally fucking up, other than completely blocking the path of another vehicle in motion. Or, you react to the impending doom you just created, and decide to speed up, smashing a curb and folding your Volvo's control arm because you ran out of talent at 7 MPH (yes, I saw someone do that). People pull into parking spaces faster than that (but probably not me, because I drive a pickup truck).

I'm sure everyone has been to this same roundabout before?

LMAO! Thanks, I needed that first thing in the morning!
 
Speaking of dumbassess...

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Woman dies in car-surfing incident, at least 7th this year
 
It would help if most of the roundabouts weren't so small diameter.

Usually my roundabout math goes like this: It's a 25 MPH zone, with no speed posted for the roundabout, and I barely need to slow down to enter the roundabout because it's not Florida and I know how a turn works. You enter the roundabout in front of me, after I'm already well over half way around. You're going 5 MPH. You think I'm also going 5MPH (or maybe 3MPH because it's a pickup truck), because anything greater would be reckless insanity and would cause me to detach from the Earth's orbit and impact the sun. Odds are, I'm going to make you shit yourself when I honk at you while almost plowing your drivers side door. Or, you slam on the brakes in front of me because you panic and have no idea what to do after royally fucking up, other than completely blocking the path of another vehicle in motion. Or, you react to the impending doom you just created, and decide to speed up, smashing a curb and folding your Volvo's control arm because you ran out of talent at 7 MPH (yes, I saw someone do that). People pull into parking spaces faster than that (but probably not me, because I drive a pickup truck).

I'm sure everyone has been to this same roundabout before?


At least they're kind enough around here to provide me with a low, sloped curb (if any curb at all) to drive over. I'm usually already doing 5-10 over the posted speed limit, and I don't like to slow down if I don't have to. Big Yukon. Gas and brakes are expensive, so I like to carry as much inertia with me as possible. At least, that's my excuse! ;) There's a road in Lewisville that has three roundabouts within a quarter mile of each other, but two of them have nothing but embossed decorative "brick" in the middle. I can just about plow straight through them. Sometimes I pretend I'm trying to follow the blacktop, just because I like to feel the truck lean. I feel like I've influenced the locals, though. Most folks seem to hit those pretty hot, so you have to watch your 9:00 for a good ways before launching into the circle. All in all, they're not too bad, but there's still so many people who can't get it through their heads that you don't stop at the entrance unless you absolutely have to.

My favorite driver right now, though, is the one who pays no attention to anything around them, including speed limit signs. I have a stretch between me and Rural Hall where it goes from 55 to 25 to 35 to 50 all within a mile or less. You get behind that one ass who's going 40 in the 55. Enters the 25 and they speed up to 35 or 40, and maintain that through all the other zones, too. They have one way to drive, and you should just get used to it.
 
At least they're kind enough around here to provide me with a low, sloped curb (if any curb at all) to drive over. I'm usually already doing 5-10 over the posted speed limit, and I don't like to slow down if I don't have to. Big Yukon. Gas and brakes are expensive, so I like to carry as much inertia with me as possible. At least, that's my excuse! ;) There's a road in Lewisville that has three roundabouts within a quarter mile of each other, but two of them have nothing but embossed decorative "brick" in the middle. I can just about plow straight through them. Sometimes I pretend I'm trying to follow the blacktop, just because I like to feel the truck lean. I feel like I've influenced the locals, though. Most folks seem to hit those pretty hot, so you have to watch your 9:00 for a good ways before launching into the circle. All in all, they're not too bad, but there's still so many people who can't get it through their heads that you don't stop at the entrance unless you absolutely have to.

My favorite driver right now, though, is the one who pays no attention to anything around them, including speed limit signs. I have a stretch between me and Rural Hall where it goes from 55 to 25 to 35 to 50 all within a mile or less. You get behind that one ass who's going 40 in the 55. Enters the 25 and they speed up to 35 or 40, and maintain that through all the other zones, too. They have one way to drive, and you should just get used to it.
This happens in Fayetteville. I live 5 miles north of the city limits. Speed limit 55 in the country two lane roads. Then it goes to five lanes with center turn. Just before the city limit there's a school zone 35. then back to 55. At the city limit by the Goodyear plant a mile later it drops to 50. Half mile from that another 35 mph school zone. Then 50 for a few miles with 19 stop lights synchronized red til work.

I'll get behind cars running 45 out in the country where I'm running 60 usually. I'll pass them at the wider road, then get passed in the school zones by them twice because I slow to 35 in the school zones they're still running 45 even. I've seen cars, trucks, and school buses use this method. I figure the bus drivers just keep them run up to the governor either way.

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My favorite driver right now, though, is the one who pays no attention to anything around them, including speed limit signs. I have a stretch between me and Rural Hall where it goes from 55 to 25 to 35 to 50 all within a mile or less. You get behind that one ass who's going 40 in the 55. Enters the 25 and they speed up to 35 or 40, and maintain that through all the other zones, too. They have one way to drive, and you should just get used to it.

HaHa! I believe someone in another thread called those idiots mono-speeders. Those people are the ones who get speeding tickets in school zones because they are not paying attention. I had a dumbass trying to count the specs of dirt on my rear bumper through a school zone one day last week.
 
I really like roundabouts. they are just about everywhere in Switzerland. Traffic flows so nice and there is no stopping when there is no traffic However, Im not sure you can teach people here to use them, since most Americans believe the roads were created for them alone and the rest of us are just using up their space!

Also... I was in Geneseo, New York years ago. The entire city had no stop signs, no traffic lights. Just yield signs. (That made a lot of sense to me. After all, stop means stop. Therefore if I have to be told to stop when approaching a main street, logically, I would also need a sign to say go? That's called a traffic light?) Yield by its very meaning infers, allow the other to pass before you proceed. That made sense and worked great where you understood the concept. Guess it would be too much in a big city, but I no long live in big cities!
 
Also... I was in Geneseo, New York years ago. The entire city had no stop signs, no traffic lights. Just yield signs. (That made a lot of sense to me. After all, stop means stop. Therefore if I have to be told to stop when approaching a main street, logically, I would also need a sign to say go? That's called a traffic light?) Yield by its very meaning infers, allow the other to pass before you proceed. That made sense and worked great where you understood the concept. Guess it would be too much in a big city, but I no long live in big cities!

They probably gave up after decades of trying to teach New Yorkers how to obey stop signs, and settled for yield signs instead.
 
My favorite driver right now, though, is the one who pays no attention to anything around them, including speed limit signs. I have a stretch between me and Rural Hall where it goes from 55 to 25 to 35 to 50 all within a mile or less. You get behind that one ass who's going 40 in the 55. Enters the 25 and they speed up to 35 or 40, and maintain that through all the other zones, too. They have one way to drive, and you should just get used to it.

HaHa! I believe someone in another thread called those idiots mono-speeders. Those people are the ones who get speeding tickets in school zones because they are not paying attention. I had a dumbass trying to count the specs of dirt on my rear bumper through a school zone one day last week.
You beat me to my own quote :D The good ol monospeeder. That was 2 years ago, good memory ;)

I call those monospeeders. And ~40mph seems to be the ideal speed for them in my area too. On the interstate, ~63 mph in the left lane seems to be the magic number, whether it's a 70mph open road or 50 mph work zone.
 
They added a free flowing turn in elkin a couple years ago and people still stop and wait til there is nothing in the other lane!!
 
I love the multi lane round abouts throughout Europe. If we had those every day there would be a weeks worth of burying killed daily at each intersection.
They put some of those in in Fayetteville. Left lane goes inside circle then goes 270* around to exit, right lane entering goes straight through or 90* around to exit from outer lane. They're also way to small, like can't take a truck and trailer through small. The only way no one has died yet is its only 25 MPH speed limit around them. I've found its best to hang back and let the idiots fight it out, or get in front of everyone and not slow down if you don't want to wreck.

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My favorite is the people who have the right of way at a four-way stop and wave three cars through.
 
They put some of those in in Fayetteville. Left lane goes inside circle then goes 270* around to exit, right lane entering goes straight through or 90* around to exit from outer lane. They're also way to small, like can't take a truck and trailer through small. The only way no one has died yet is its only 25 MPH speed limit around them. I've found its best to hang back and let the idiots fight it out, or get in front of everyone and not slow down if you don't want to wreck.

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One day I really want to get in that round-a-bout downtown and just do laps for about 10 minutes just to fuck with ppl.
 
There is a local fast and furious wannabe that practices his drifting in a clapped out nissan 200 or 240sx at on of the round abouts nearby....

Sometimes I make a lap or two around it. The kids laugh there ass off. The wife not so much....
 
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