Bad Driving from Professional Driver

[catcul]

Yesterday, as I was driving home, I saw this vehicle driving at an excessive speed, weaving in and out of lanes, and tailgating other cars. This car was a hearse. I hope he didn't have a passenger in the back. The dead deserve a respectful driver that drives gently and not like he's trying to out-race Satan.

I hope he wasn't trying to drum up business for his employer.

[LoTech]

He may not have been late for his own funeral, but he could still be Kate for someone else's!

[sstabeler]

The dead deserve a respectful driver that drives gently and not like he's trying to out-race Satan.
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Well, if you're worried about where you're going post-mortem...

[Jetfire]

A new Roundabout opened up in my city a month or so ago, and people are still learning it.

Including this cabbie who really should know better.

This was about a week after the Roundabout opened so the professional drivers in the city should've been through it once or twice at least by then.

The company says the driver is "No longer on the road", but as the article comments indicate, the company itself has a bad rep in the city.

[Gilhelmi]

I asked myself "how do you go the wrong way on a roundabout?" Then I watched that video.

Seriously, if you can not figure out a roundabout, you should not be allowed to drive.

[LoTech]

I had the misfortune to drive my first roundabout in the dark. I had the mistaken impression that I could just drive straight through as the approach was so far off center, but I wound up hurdling the curb around the center island because it was bigger than I thought.
How ironic that a measure intended to reduce accidents gives drivers one more thing to hit.

[Aragarthiel]

I just started driving, and despite taking the only roundabout in town a bit too fast the first few times, I managed to figure it out just fine. It also helps that this particular roundabout has separate right turn lanes.

When I'm the passenger, I like watching the number of tire marks up on the center island grow as time goes by. XD

[wolfie]

This was about a week after the Roundabout opened so the professional drivers in the city should've been through it once or twice at least by then.

The company says the driver is "No longer on the road", but as the article comments indicate, the company itself has a bad rep in the city.

Somehow I suspect that the driver in question owns a boot that's full of water. The instructions for emptying it are printed on the wear surface of the heel.

[notalwaysright]

Most roundabouts are fine. Um, there are a couple in the town I grew up in which are new, and those aren't very cool. They just have one lane going into it, but there are two lanes inside. So if you want to go all the way around you are supposed to change lanes into the center lane. I've seen this work on videos, but the roundabout is generally a lot larger. This one is small, yet high traffic. If you get into the middle lane as you are suppose to, you will NEVER get out. I mean never. Oh, there was one plus to the smaller roundabouts, the little ones with one lane. There are some roads in my home town where large trucks (semi trucks) are prohibited. Some drivers would take the shortcut anyway. Well, they can't now because they can't get through the roundabout! More than one truck found it out the hard way.

Anyway, I think part of it is at least when I took driver's ed, they did not teach about them. Many of us can figure them out, but remember the rest of the population? They should be taught so they at least have a chance.

[Crossbow]

We've got one of the dumbest Roundabouts I've ever seen in my area. It'd be fine, except for the fact that it's split down the middle so one road goes all the way through. They have traffic lights to prevent accidents.

What the hell's the point of a roundabout if you're going to need to put in traffic lights???

Proof: Fairmount Circle

[wolfie]

I've seen at least one like that in New Jersey.

[Kogarashi]

That's kind of...dumb.

We have one in our neighborhood here, and it's apparently confusing to just enough people that they keep bringing it up in the community newsletter. I can sort of understand it, as you do need to be paying attention to signs in this one. There are three streets that feed into it (two branches of the same street plus a side street). However there are four roads that lead away from it, since the main road is divided by a median on one side of the roundabout. And a pretty wide median, too. So if you're not paying attention to the street signs, you could end up driving the wrong way down that particular street. Not to mention just goofing up and exiting the roundabout through one of the inbound lanes.

[raudf]

They're talking about roundabouts in the town my kid goes to school in. Given they can't figure out how a ONE WAY sign works for a section of road, and's been that way for decades, I don't think the roundabout concept is going to work.

[klhanson]

We've got one of the dumbest Roundabouts I've ever seen in my area. It'd be fine, except for the fact that it's split down the middle so one road goes all the way through. They have traffic lights to prevent accidents.

What the hell's the point of a roundabout if you're going to need to put in traffic lights???

Proof: Fairmount Circle

I thought I recognized that roundabout! That particular city is like an hour from me.

[Crossbow]

I thought I recognized that roundabout! That particular city is like an hour from me.

Heh. That roundabout was on my way to work for years.