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[JR6ooo4]

Do you expect them to put a sign out for you evey time a kid chases a ball into the street?

Mikeeee

 

[manning]

WOW! Skidding into an intersection does not sound like safe driving. You should not need signs to safely control your car! If you can not see what is ahead of you with your normal lights, not hi-beams, then you are traveling to fast.

Just because the sign says it is legal to travel 40mph it does not mean it is always safe to...

Mikeeee

Wow, I guess I better throw away all the safe driving certificates I received during my 40+ years of driving for not having tickets or accidents. I obey all traffic laws.

I think I explained what happened. I am not a computer and slipped up. One or two slip ups is not bad for 40+ years of driving.

 

[manning]

As it (and you) should be. Granted you say there was no other traffic on the road - but given that high beams should be used sparingly and not behind or approaching other vehicles, it's probably going to be a really good idea to start paying attention to traffic signs.

What I have to do is remember I don't have this feature on the new one and be more attentive. I think I was lucky to learn this.

 

[manning]

Yes, I was wondering if the OP was a Brit. I noticed he used roundabouts and also called them turnabouts. We call roundabouts "traffic circles" here in NY.

I've never heard the term rotary.

I also call the headlights high beams.




I think I've been through that traffic circle.

They are the number one reason why I don't think I can drive in England & Ireland. It's already hard enough negotiating and getting out of a traffic circle in the U.S. The Brits drive around theirs in the other direction.

Born and raised american.

 

[robinb]

Night vision goes as you get older.

Yeah ... 'round about 40 .

I personally LOVE roundabouts. The traffic engineers here have added a few to a couple of congested intersections. I used to have to wait and wait at the stop sign and now I just sail through. I *do* watch the people to my right though ... just in case they are unclear on the concept.

 

[JR6ooo4]

Wow, I guess I better throw away all the safe driving certificates I received during my 40+ years of driving for not having tickets or accidents. I obey all traffic laws.

I think I explained what happened. I am not a computer and slipped up. One or two slip ups is not bad for 40+ years of driving.

I agree, you explained it well enough. You were driving so fast you could not see the road ahead, with the available light. Sometimes that is only 20 mph.

Mikeeee

 

[MosMom]

Hey Mikeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, it is so easy to be perfect on the internet isn't it?

 

[JR6ooo4]

Hey Mikeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, it is so easy to be perfect on the internet isn't it?

Sure is. But is it not about being perfect. it is about driving a vehicle safely. what if there were cars in the intersection? What if it was your kid crossing the road??? In his cute Halloween costume? And he/she was smashed under a car because someone's new car did not change the hi-beams automatically!!! It is plain and clear. If you need your hi-beams to see far enough ahead then you need to slow down!

You will not convince me otherwise. I have a 30 year driving history as well as racing autos for 10+ years. On the track you are expected to go fast, and sometimes get hit. But skidding into an intersection in a RESIDENTIAL AREA is completely unacceptable, reckless and pert near criminal!

but feel free to continue to bash ME!

Mikeeee

 

[manning]

Sure is. But is it not about being perfect. it is about driving a vehicle safely. what if there were cars in the intersection? What if it was your kid crossing the road??? In his cute Halloween costume? And he/she was smashed under a car because someone's new car did not change the hi-beams automatically!!! It is plain and clear. If you need your hi-beams to see far enough ahead then you need to slow down!

You will not convince me otherwise. I have a 30 year driving history as well as racing autos for 10+ years. On the track you are expected to go fast, and sometimes get hit. But skidding into an intersection in a RESIDENTIAL AREA is completely unacceptable, reckless and pert near criminal!

but feel free to continue to bash ME!

Mikeeee

Look junior, that rotary is wide open the area is not built up yet. You can see if a car is coming for at least a quarter of a mile. As for racing autos. Quess what happens when someone has an accident on the race track....a mistake, which I did, and the important thing is I learned from it.

Quit being so sanctimonious. We got your message.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Look junior, that rotary is wide open the area is not built up yet. You can see if a car is coming for at least a quarter of a mile.

Actually, it doesn't appear so from the original post:

The round about is poorly marked. No reflectors in the center nor arrows as to which way to go. Prior to it is a small warning sign that I missed

If you could see a car coming, you could only reasonably be expected to see the change in the road - yes, even at night; even with low (aka standard) beams; even with no traffic. As for no arrows indicating which way to go - it's highly unusual to have roads entering a rotary/roundabout/traffic circle exactly perpendicular. Since we drive on the right in this country, ALL roundabout traffic goes to the right. Period.

 

[C.Ann]

Reminds me of when my cousin's finance was driving to her house in MA down on the Cape for the first time.. He was so late arriving she thought he wasn't coming at all.. When he finally got there she asked him what happened and he told her he was stuck on the inside lane of the rotary for an hour.. At that time I guess they didn't have any of those things in Arizona..

 

[yoopermom]

My 69 yo aunt lives in Brighton, MI, and when we visited her last summer, she scrupulously showed us how she gets to all her favorite stores in town while avoiding the town's roudabouts! I did think it was hilarious how our GPS tried to get us through them...

Terri
(Who had to move to MI just to find out what "suicide lanes" are!)

 

[Northstar]

I know 'em when I see them (so far I haven't tried to drive straight through one, but that could happen!), but on the linguistic confusion of the pesky things:

Grew up in New York State and only heard them called "traffic circles"

Moved to New England and spent several hours lost the first time I got directions that included "go past the rotary"... I was looking for a Rotary CLUB!

Moved to Nova Scotia and I drive through pretty near the only one in the province every day... well, they changed the rules on who has right of way and the stupid pedantic traffic engineers decided they had to change the name from the Armdale Rotary to the Armdale Roundabout. You know what, guys... nobody says "Oh, it's called a ROTARY so that means I have to let traffic on but if it's called a ROUNDABOUT I have to wait to get in and then I just zip on around."

So I can drive on it, but I can't remember the name of the traffic cir...rota...roundabout thingie.

 

[manning]

Actually, it doesn't appear so from the original post:


If you could see a car coming, you could only reasonably be expected to see the change in the road - yes, even at night; even with low (aka standard) beams; even with no traffic. As for no arrows indicating which way to go - it's highly unusual to have roads entering a rotary/roundabout/traffic circle exactly perpendicular. Since we drive on the right in this country, ALL roundabout traffic goes to the right. Period.

No, I'm talking line of sight. It was flat and no buildings around except for one small sub-division on the northwest side of the rotary This was basically out in the middle of no where. If there was a car there you would see headlights. When I said residental I meant the land was graded and waiting for homes to be built. All you see is big signs saying future homes starting at $$$$$. There wasn't any street lights along the road. It looked like when the bad economy hit the developer just stopped doing everything. Around here the developer is expected to upgrade/pay for the infrastructure. The road looked like it was originally a country road and upgraded.

Should haves are easy to state, but having it happen is different. Very different.

I encountered one in indiana that had arrows and reflectors in the center. There was no doubt it was a rotary. There also was a big white sign with the rotary symbol with lettering "roundabout ahead". I don't recall seeing that here.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I think I was much younget than that the first time I was in a roundabout.

probably 22 or 23.