2 months ago some guy crashed into me and i was driving a customerscar ON SUCH A BLOODY SHIT CIRCLE...there are so many braindamaged people on the streets no wondering they dont get that this might be a circle...
well actually we're calling them trafficisland because they used to look like islands here in germany...but there are more and more circles painted on the road and some people dont get it. Or like lots of examples here where i live , they building them so small you have to drive over it which destroys my car so i have to drive like a walking grandma around it
ye i guess its the problem here.... its easier for them to drive like it was normal crossing... in poland we also got islands in center of traffic circle
To be honest all traffic circles I've seen here in Germany had those kind of "islands" in the middle and at least people can't just straight cross there but they still indicate wrongly (when entering instead of when leaving a traffic circle) or move left instead of moving right.
because driving is not for everybody. too bad they give licence to everyone. it's not about germany only. i know few chicks that have problems with realising where to turn when you tell them "right" or "left"...
It's worst with old people since there's basically no control once you've got your license and they can't cope with modern traffic. Hell my grandmother can't even fuel her car.
I was referring to the biannual or so reevaluation everyone has to go through over there. I'm explaining myself because I'd hope you'd explain the funnies to me. :)
Well, Americans are good at quite a few things and there's no need for that faux ironic ignorance really. It's just that the things they're good at come at a very high price leaving moderately smart people to question the worthiness of these achievements.
I'm puzzled now, no idea if you're serious or not. In case you are, I got news for you - you started that "faux ironic ignorance" ("That's one of the few things [...]"), and I just laughed. Do you really think I think that way?
Quite frankly, I've been to America and I've dated an American for half a year and I am thoroughly convinced that America is not on par with Europe in many aspects. One thing that they are pretty good at is Education (too bad their education system is so expensive it's aristocratic to some extent and that I only refer to actually good colleges) and therefore their research. Their country, however, is divided on most aspects political and economical, their law system is a mess, infrastructure is 30 years behind Western Europe.
Nno, I didn't think you were entirely serious, and yes I was. And as you can read in my above text, I wasn't ironic, I really think there are only a few things they're actually better at than us, but they are only few.
Lots of Germans are not used to traffic circles. The once who do use their indicator the wrong way. They even learn it the wrong way when they take driving lessons.
A German friend of mine told me you guys use the indicator to the right when entering the circle, turn it off when you're on it and turn it on to the right again just before you exit. That might work for a (very) large traffic circle, but not for the small ones.
In the Netherlands you learn to use the indicator to point the the way you want to go when you approach the circle. If you take the first exit you'll leave the circle without turning it off. If you go straight you'll leave it neutral and use the indicator to the right before you exit. If you want to go three-quarters you use the indicator to the left while you're on the circle and only switch to the right just before you take the exit.
It's a bit more complicated, but especially if you go three-quarters you'll warn people who approach the circle from the opposite direction in advance that you will stay on it.
Yes, but since you will switch the indicator to the right last minute, they don't know whether you will take the exit immediately or go around a bit more. If you indicate to the left they know in advance you will stay on. And especially if you don't indicate you will go straight, so they can start driving on to the circle.
Most driver's indicate early enough, like right after the exit before the one you want to take + usually there's a heightened (?) green in the middle, so you would't even see cars indicating left that early.
Anyways, let's just say i never noticed any problems with our circles and its rules and the video must be of some place where they never saw that before.
If it's the way nicon says, it's a bit better, but still not as good as the way we learn it. I think it's time they should make the same rules for all European countries. That doesn't solve the problem of bad driving, but at least it's a start.
You only need to use the indicator when you want to turn off the circle.
And if you want to take the first road out, you can use it instantly when driving in the circle.
So its here in germany ;)
It's really useless havin traffic circles if peeps don't know how to drive thru them! I get really annoyed when people do dumb crap in traffic in general. For some reason traffic circles are uber difficult to understand.
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4. Informal
a. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
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not some paint on the road : D
Nno, I didn't think you were entirely serious, and yes I was. And as you can read in my above text, I wasn't ironic, I really think there are only a few things they're actually better at than us, but they are only few.
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In the Netherlands you learn to use the indicator to point the the way you want to go when you approach the circle. If you take the first exit you'll leave the circle without turning it off. If you go straight you'll leave it neutral and use the indicator to the right before you exit. If you want to go three-quarters you use the indicator to the left while you're on the circle and only switch to the right just before you take the exit.
Anyways, let's just say i never noticed any problems with our circles and its rules and the video must be of some place where they never saw that before.
And if you want to take the first road out, you can use it instantly when driving in the circle.
So its here in germany ;)
"must be gerwomen drivers"
So yea, predictable. ;P
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal
a. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
b. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
v. joked, jok·ing, jokes
v.intr.
1. To tell or play jokes; jest.
2. To speak in fun; be facetious.
v.tr.
To make fun of; tease.