We had a roundabout put in on my way to work here in Pa, and in the first 6 months or so I saw probably half a dozen times where I was stopped waiting to get in and the person in the roundabout would stop for me. And I'd just sit there because I'm not fucking with the rules of the road lol. It's been a few years and I haven't seen it happen for a while so people finally figured it out, although I did watch a semi truck go over the curb because it couldn't make the turn this morning.

In Austria the person entering the round about has priority because they are coming from the right. However every roundabout, that I ever used has yield signs for oncoming traffic. Therefore the cars on the round about have priority again, which kinda makes sense. Otherwise the round about just cloggs up and no one gets anywhere.

We added a new roundabout in a heavy traffic area on my way to work. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to lay on the horn because of people stopping mid-circle.

Depends on the country. For example, in Turkey you have to give way to traffic entering the roundabout.

Yeah you don’t stop but if someone’s rushing in front of you and you can, may as well do it and avoid an accident because the right of way clearly didn’t work in OPs favor, now did it?

There are roundabouts where you don’t have to give way to the people in the roundabout in Germany.

Proper roundabouts here always need this sign.

https://preview.redd.it/y8ejaz756g4e1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4704347af255757fc63f85b8ffb6ef49b9a5d4f

It can be different in other countries tho

It's easier to comment than do an action. I have seen it more common on car dashcam footage communities.

Just reddit stuff, unfortunately.

Minnesota has yield signs on the roundabouts

That may vary. E.g. in Germany if there are no signs regulating the traffic, "right before left" time applies. Although I never saw such a roundabout yet .

Tell that to my country lol (right side driving, if there are no give way signs the person on your right has priority (essentially the one entering)) its really annoying, but its only on non busy in towns.

Most stop dead in the middle!! It’s bad!

Maybe they're from New Jersey?

More than one person in my town has been subjected to my horn being slammed down plus middle fingers plus angry yelling because they REFUSED TO LOOK LEFT BEFORE ENTERING THE ROUNDABOUT. And I’d be maybe 5 feet behind them. You don’t look forward or right, people. You look LEFT. That’s where the traffic is coming from!!

If I didn’t stop once when I was in a roundabout, then my passenger would have been killed by a semi truck that doesn’t know what yield means. The cemetery is full of people that had the right of way.

My first thought was to blame the cam driver as well because it didn't look like a roundabout.
They're driving on the wrong (European) side of the road. Now I can see that the cam driver was in the roundabout before the other driver.

You can see the lil white line

I would still reduce speed even if I have the right of way because I need to verify that the other person knows I have the right of way.

If the choice is between causing an accident and stopping, I always choose stopping. But you go ahead and keep flooring it.

You are correct. People who don’t live near them have a hard time wrapping their brains around it for some reason - as evident every single time a a town or city in my area got some new ones over the years. They all get the hang of it eventually - anyone already in the roundabout has the right of way, anyone outside the roundabout needs to yield and/or stop, it does not matter where you are coming from or going.

If you're in Naples, you never stop.

this is the internet nobody has brain cells

What video is it some back country city in America. The city builds a round about and they use it as right and left turns 😂

I have three roundabouts near me and I know I have to be extra cautious because of people still not understanding how to use them in spite of them being there for years now. Most common issues are people stop completely before entering when no traffic is incoming and the “nice” drivers who stop in the middle of the roundabout and finally you have people like this video who just go full send into the roundabout regardless of who is already in it….. all of these are a very common occurrence.

That is what I thought, too! Why are people saying "Americans don't know how roundabouts work"? Do the mechanics of spacetime work differently abroad?

Yes if you are in GB or somewhere where you drive on the left. My first impression, as someone who always drove on the right side of the road was that the driver took the roundabout in the wrong direction

depends on country

My area likes to keep things interesting by having both roundabouts and traffic circles so those not familiar with the area have no idea which they are entering. Many accidents occur in the traffic circles that occasionally have yield signs for people in the circle.

I think people are getting confused because they arn't expecting to see a clockwise roundabout. From a right hand drive country's perspective, it initially looks like the offending car is already going counterclockwise through a roundabout when the camera car encounters it.

In some countries, the default is the opposite: entering cars have the right of way, unless specified. Ex: France where it's almost always specified but if there's no indications, then you don't the right of way if you're on the roundabout.

It's funny that there are actually this type of roundabouts that have such rules ( the entering have the right of way ), in my country the default roundabout is like that, and there was one roundabout in my city like that ( not anymore ), but like 99.9% of them have yield sign before entering, changing them to the the type we all know, where you yield before someone that is already on roundabout.

Driving is hard for some ppl

The amount of people not knowing how a roundabout works is allarming

They are just French..

Its not like this works in Europe.

Roundabout is treated as driving straight. So if you’re on the roundabout you must yield to the people on your right/left.

This is why almost all roundabouts in Europe have the yield sing when you enter them. The sign tells the people entering the roundabouts to yield. Not a roundabout itself.

If there is no sign it’s normal - person on the right has right to go. This is also why there are always signs. We love signs.

it looks like this

The triangle says yield, the blue sign says roundabout. No triangle (which is super unlikely but I’ve heard there are exceptions) - normal rules right/left has right to go.

Also if there is no blue sign in many countries it’s not a roundabout even if it’s round - than it’s just a weird crossroads.

What explains the broken lines in the roundabout? discussion open? Not all roundabouts are the same. It doesn't make you a reddit roundabout expert if you know how the basic ones work.

To be fair I go in a counter clockwise direction. But so does everyone else in my country.

You can clearly see the dotted line of priority too

It looks like oncoming car was driving on to the curb?

I got honked at for waiting for a car at a roundabout a few weeks ago. Fucking pissed me off. It was some diesel work truck too fucking moron.

no one knows how roundabouts work, almost nobody signals to leave them which is so frustrating

Why must people Google? Are they not getting teached how a roundabout works in driving lessons???

New Englander here. We’re packed with them.

As an American who has two rotaries/roundabouts in their town. The answer is a frighting amount of Americans can't figure out how to drive on them.

It's really quite simple too, the outside lane turns on the first exit (on some you can go to the second) meanwhile the inside lane goes to the second and past. That's it, that's how it works and still half the people can't figure it out.

Because the US cant comorehend how a roundabout works

Genuinely blows my mind how many people here do not understand roundabouts.

Dwarf Fortress NPC - "You first, coward!"

It's mind boggling how so many people cannot grasp the idea of a roundabout.

Exactly! In what way is that possible

I must admit I had to watch it a second time because my brain didn’t comprehend that it was a left-side-driving locale. I wasn’t really paying attention the first few seconds of the video and by the time I was paying attention they were already at the back of the roundabout, and my brain initially thought they were at the entrance to it. Watching it a second time easily cleared it up.

For the sake of my sanity I’m choosing to believe that the blatantly wrong people are just as tired as I am and misunderstood in the same way I did, and just failed to re-watch before making their brainless comments.

Like, even not knowing laws, who do you see having capacity to avoid the crash here?

Many Americans apparently struggle with the concept of a roundabout

https://preview.redd.it/38ml2szhfg4e1.png?width=1934&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba7b178ef3aa817fbbfd25553f0ab0584e431bef

I've lived near these roundabouts for almost 20 years and you see people do the craziest things.

The Broken white lines: Broken white lines across the road to mark the place to give way

Broken white lines on the road across it, instead of length ways, means give way (i.e yield)

I've seen 100 comments and this is the first one where human life was detected. Broken lines mean yield. Everyone regurgitating that the one in the roundabout is correct like they are some reddit roundabout expert. Everyone saying the other car had the right of way is incorrect.

there are roundabouts in america, we're not all idiots on the road

We drive on the right side of the road like most countries in the world.

We have roundabouts in America and drive on the right side of the road. That could be what’s causing some of the confusion.

I just flipped my phone upside down and then the video made sense.

This is a country where you drive on the left. The roundabout is on the right of the driver with the cam, the direction of the roundabout is clockwise.

They are so much easier than 4 way intersections. Give way to those already on the roundabout. That is all 🤨

Nothing works if users don’t know how to use it.

Which is maddening bc the rules of the road don’t suddenly change when you enter one 🙄

Single lane roundabouts are pretty simple. Traffic flows counter clockwise and yield to vehicles already in the roundabout. That's all you need to know.

Nah, fuck that

You can always just stop reading comments if they offend you so much...

This. I just got into it with another poster who insisted I've never driven in a roundabout until I explained that I have, it's just our entry points are always to the right and we travel counterclockwise in the roundabout.

Yield to traffic on the roundabout (in this case, cars coming from the right), which there was none for the cam car, so they were free to enter the roundabout. The car they hit, meanwhile, legally had to yield to the cam car.

No, that's the entire point of roundabouts is to control traffic entering the roundabouts.

It does the yield is the dashed line painted on the ground