In Spain the answer is 3. It was a question in the driving test. Idk if it's a europe-wide rule though.
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How much gas you got boy
My friend came to visit me in Boston. He's a bit skittish and dramatic. He was driving and came upon a rotary. He kept repeating "what is this?" before we entered onto it. I was explaining to him that he literally just had to get out at the first exit so he didn't even really need to get onto it, just turn right, but he just saw an opening and pulled in.
Immediately he went to the center and just kept circling around it screaming. I was trying to calm him down, but I was laughing too hard. We had to have gone around 5 times before he got his shit together and just exited his first chance. I drove around the long way so he didn't have to go in again. But the thought of getting pulled over did cross my mind.
"Skittish and dramatic" aren't on the list of qualities I want licensed drivers to have, yikes.
The is SO MUCH WORSE about driving in Boston than a rotary wtf
In about 1968, my dad drove round the roundabout in front of Buckingham Palace so us kids could get a better gander at the palace.
We got pulled over by a Bobby on the third circuit, and I kid you not, his first question was 'What's going on here, then?' We were told if we wanted a better look, we would have to park the car and walk - like everyone else. The answer to the question is 3.
Well the answer now is 0. That round about isn't a roundabout anymore.
Wow, y'all have had roundabouts since the 60's? I didn't see any in the US until like 2010.
And here I thought they were modern inventions
Funnily enough, the concept of a circular traffic junction - in a form similar to a roundabout today - was first introduced in Washington DC in the 1790s, including the Dupont Circle.
So literally speaking, you septics invented the ~~roundabout~~ traffic circle.
In a town in Ohio I used to live in, the answer was 50. There is a law on the books that says its a misdemeanor to lap over 50 times in a day.
Edit: I was slightly wrong - its 100 times in a single session. Source: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/ohio/crazy-laws-part-2-oh/
In a day? These laps don't have to be consecutive for it to be illegal?
50 nonconsecutive laps in a day isn't even that much, tbh.
As a cabbie, I could drive 25 fares a day, and if I go back to my station after the fare, then I'd drive one lap while driving the customer home and another while going back myself.
in Poland there is no legal limit, so if you fancy spinning around come visit!
I doubt it'd take long before they try to stop you on different grounds like impeding traffic or public nuisance or whatever
then don't go spinning in a city, pick a village or a small town and go wild, it'll take them a while to notice and a longer while yet to bother stopping you, and chances are (with village police) they'd first sit down and watch for an hour or so. Adding it all up I'd say you're looking at at least 8h of spinning. In the end you'll just be told to stop since it's 100% legal or you could pioneer a new law in Poland! exciting
If it's a busy one, would anyone even notice? Most people just get in and get out without even making a full circle. I think you'd be virtually anonymous.
Unless someone else was riding the same roundabout for fun. Then you could invent little games to play with them
Said different grounds would most likely be a willful twisting of the "anti cruising" laws and ordinances in effect in many states and cities in the US.
Come to Hemel Hempstead!
I wonder this like once a year
Also, advanced mode might be the cloverloop
I did two full loops once while I was learning to drive. I wasn't confident enough to merge over without a lot more room than the people around me were willing to part with, so I just stayed in the lane, took the next ramp and cycled through.
Then it happened again.
Fortunately it was my dad and not like, an instructor who could grade me or something.
I’ve frequently reminded my teens that it’s no big deal to go around again, no big deal to miss a turn. A panic move at a missed turn is usually a bad idea.
— also, I recommended GPS even in familiar territory. Sure, you need to be able to get around without that dependency, but no matter where you are, GPS will almost instantly calculate an alternate, safe route. Don’t worry about missing that turn, let gps help
I don't think anyone would notice on the cloverloop.
I've wanted to do a full 4 leaf clover before. But unfortunately the one my by house in college was just a 2 leaf on the northbound side. The southbound side was regular ramps.
I did take the two leaves in one go though. I was headed out and after I got on the first loop I realized I forgot something at home, so I stayed on and took the second loop to go back and pick it up.
Closest thing I've got to a clover here is literally called the mixmaster. It's more akin to taking a head first dive into a blender.
Well if you're drifting like that you'd get dinged for reckless driving first anyway.
Realistically, however long it took for someone else to notice you were doing it and call them.
Source: had the cops called on my friends and I multiple times for having foam sword fights in parking lots at college. Apparently people from a distance thought actual fighting was going on. Not sure if that's a testament to our acting or their poor eye sight.
Tbh how often do you see someone sword dueling lol
Every. Fucking. Day. Honestly, being the Highlander is exhausting.
Long as youre not stopping traffic
So... If a bunch of friends and I just fill up a roundabout with our cars, just going round and round...
Straight to jail.
Probably, because that would be stopping traffic
Can’t really answer without specifying direction of travel.
Forward, mostly.
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In Australia I was picked up for going around four times. They were watching from the start and threatened me with a reckless driving charge.
But that’s the exactly the cop you’d want to weigh in on your local bmx tournament…
Bullshit cruising or loitering ordinances that should have never been passed would probably be the excuse cops use in many areas
What is cruising in this context?
Driving without a destination or repeatedly passing the same point multiple times is usually how the measure it
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