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Bickering about bicycles, now with occasional tips about motorised vehicles
Barmymoo:
I am so much in agreement with the turn signals thing. Just crossing the road in Paris is life-threatening because no one indicates (and they have that stupid thing that you guys have too, where it's legal to turn a corner even if you are at a red light, even if there are pedestrians crossing the road you are turning into. And no one indicates! They just blithely turn without looking and almost mow down a one year old child in a pushchair.
Eris:
This is why I am generally terrified that I am going to get into a car accident and die whenever I get behind the wheel of a car. My big issues I have (maybe had? I haven't driven regularly since i moved to Sydney, thank god) were changing lanes and merging onto roads. I just have huge troubles with recognising gaps that are big enough to fit my car, and also seem to just not see cars when I am doing the checks as I come up to the merging spot. I have nearly merged into the middle of a car on more than one occasion.
That being said, once I got used to the areas I drove around a lot I knew when I would need to double check my blind spots and worked out how the areas' roads worked and I would cruise around with the terror of dying just humming nicely at the back of my brain. The few times I had to drive in Sydney had me freaking out and making sure ben gave me plenty of warnings for when I would need to change lanes or turn at certain streets. I would also get him to double check that it was ok to change lanes. I never had an accident though, so I am keeping that good record!
The Seldom Killer:
Dear Americans, so you think roundabouts are a bit odd?
Try this little gem on for size:
No photoshop was required to bring you this picture and, despite the seeming insanity of it's design, it kind of works. As least for the locals. A local driving instructor says he really likes it because it teaches new drivers to think in 360 degrees.
I still contend that cars are Faraday Cages for common sense and decency. Two people that I met last year have been killed this month due to basic motorised idiocy.
Scandanavian War Machine:
that's not a roundabout it's a fucking celtic knot for cars
jesus
Gemmwah:
There is one of those in Hemel Hempstead, which is quite near where I used to live, and every time I went on it I thought I was going to die. Nobody knows how to traverse the magic roundabout, once you enter you are lucky if you escape, never mind leaving via the exit you actually want.
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