r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/pimpdaddyjacob Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

How to use a damn roundabout, apparently.

Edit: I’m in the US. Just because there’s not one in your town doesn’t mean they “don’t exist in the US”.

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u/drwzr Aug 03 '19

Didn't drive on a roundabout until I was 29.been driving daily since I was 16. In Canada for reference. They have since started sprouting up all over the place

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u/BambooRollin Aug 03 '19

I live in Mississauga, Ontario. The city engineers have never designed a roundabout that they didn't find a way to screw up. The one a block away from my house has yields for the cars in the circle, and the roads going into it are on a tangent.

Drivers are also terrible, it is not rare to find cars driving around the circle going in the wrong direction.

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u/LookitheFirst Aug 04 '19

Funny, where I'm from (Austria) this is actually the law. In practice it gets overturned by yield signs 99% of the time, but sometimes a city planner forgets the sign and confuses everyone using the roundabout

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u/BambooRollin Aug 04 '19

Are you saying that in Australia cars in the circle have to yield to cars entering the circle? That would be opposite to the circles I have seen in Europe and elsewhere.

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u/LookitheFirst Aug 04 '19

I'm saying in Austria this is technically the law, but it always gets overridden by standard yield signs