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Originally Posted by coffeebean
Please explain to me why a driver can not go 3/4 of the way around the RAB in the right lane if all cars waiting to enter the RAB yield to the car going 3/4 of the way around. I'm on my 4th season here and I'm still trying to understand why this is such a no no. If all cars stagger with one another while in the RAB and if all cars yield to cars already in the RAB, how can an accident occur?
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Be thankful you are not driving in one of the big European cities built around plazas or squares, with five or more streets feeding into a roundabout. If you don't know which lane feeds to which street, you could be driving around in there for weeks. On top of that, in some of them the rule is that people in the RAB must yield to anyone entering the RAB. You can watch this in action from the top of the Arche de Triomphe. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BliGIPQ_KHc]Inside the crazy Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris Shocking Traffic - YouTube[/ame] Frequently the result is... anarchy.
TV's roundabouts are pretty easy once you think of it as an intersection. I was a skeptic at first, but now I'm a believer.