Basically. It comes down to habit and some times laziness.
There are a few times I intentionally don’t use mine, mostly because there’s this one intersection that if you’re turning left, for whatever reason people get into this “no you go first” bullshit that’s hard to read. So I turn it on after they start going.
Other tkmes, I fail to single entry into a roundabout. All the round abouts here are single lane and it’s pretty obvious you’re gonna enter. Also, they’re small so it becomes easily confused with signaling an exit from
The roundabout. I do signal the exit appropriately, though.
But in MN the 2 things people don’t know how to do is a zipper merge and round abouts. It’s embarrassing, really.
I think not knowing how roundabouts work is all over the US. In my part of the country they put up stop signs at the roundabouts—does it not occur to them that it defeats the entire purpose of it?
If you ever go to Tijuana though they can be a lot of fun.
I dunno that stop sign would totally defeat the purpose.
Part of why roundabouts work is that everyone is basically turning right to enter and right again to exit, meaning none of the traffic streams actually cross.
Stop signs would slow it down, but not by much. At least, not for the smaller things.
My biggest issue with people here is the frequency they wait for it to be completely clear before going, or the idiots trying to drift around it because, hey, that’s actually fun.
Basically. It comes down to habit and some times laziness.
There are a few times I intentionally don’t use mine, mostly because there’s this one intersection that if you’re turning left, for whatever reason people get into this “no you go first” bullshit that’s hard to read. So I turn it on after they start going.
Other tkmes, I fail to single entry into a roundabout. All the round abouts here are single lane and it’s pretty obvious you’re gonna enter. Also, they’re small so it becomes easily confused with signaling an exit from The roundabout. I do signal the exit appropriately, though.
But in MN the 2 things people don’t know how to do is a zipper merge and round abouts. It’s embarrassing, really.
I think not knowing how roundabouts work is all over the US. In my part of the country they put up stop signs at the roundabouts—does it not occur to them that it defeats the entire purpose of it?
If you ever go to Tijuana though they can be a lot of fun.
I dunno that stop sign would totally defeat the purpose.
Part of why roundabouts work is that everyone is basically turning right to enter and right again to exit, meaning none of the traffic streams actually cross.
Stop signs would slow it down, but not by much. At least, not for the smaller things.
My biggest issue with people here is the frequency they wait for it to be completely clear before going, or the idiots trying to drift around it because, hey, that’s actually fun.