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Originally Posted by acparker
Again, in light traffic, roundabouts work great., but in heavy traffic you get gridlock.
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Cars already in the circle are only part 1. Cars stopped in the left lane waiting to enter the circle have to watch over their right shoulders at the same time for jerks sailing down the right lane and popping into the circle at the last moment, just as the lead car in the left lane tries to enter.
Driving a tiny, underpowered car, I'm almost as big a mark as truckers. But I've got a manual transmission and an attitude, and those jerks need a hell of a speed advantage to keep me from putting them in the grass. It happens a lot more than it should- I've had two in the last month. 10% of the time is pathetic. One came to a dead stop to avoid being put on the grass and the other got stopped by the state trooper who was watching the area, whose attention I got by laying on the horn as I launched.