For people that still seem confused. To make it more simple. The three most important things to remember are: 1. You may only use the right lane if you plan on exiting the traffic circle on the first or second exit only (the first two right hand turns). But not if you want to use any exit after the second exit. 2. You can use the left hand lane if you plan on exiting traffic circle from any exit except the very first right hand turn. (You can use it on the second exit, the third and to go all the way around the circle if you want, but never use the left lane if you want to use the first exit on your right) 3. Don't change lanes inside the circle.
+Danny Campbell ... As long as you yield to traffic to your left, it is legal though not recommended to use the right lane for the 3rd exit. Buses and large vehicles do this. I used to ride ETS buses regularly and they always use the right lane.
incorrect. If two vehicles enter at the same time beside each other, one in each lane, and the left lane car wants to go straight through and the right lane car wants to take the 3rd exit and gets hit by the car in the left lane, the car in the right lane will be at fault every single time.
American here. I hope we get traffic circles like these as more standard issue soon. If you sit and look at it for like 10 minutes, it isn't that hard to figure out
@Amari Joseph I encounter 5 roundabouts within 1 miles of each other whenever I go to my parents place. I live in Iowa and lots of new neighborhoods are putting these in. And some are being constructed in existing areas. Also getting more of these. ruclips.net/video/Zd5AatLWvcg/видео.html
@Amari Joseph the roundabouts are easy if you pay attention. Will get cut off many times tho. The interstate diaminds are more rare, but once you've been through them a few times it's not too bad.
Just stay the hell away from these nightmares. I'd like to hear the reasoning for putting more and more of these things in. I've heard people say that they're "safer" . . . . . HOW it the hell can that be? ? ? ?
I've changed my mind about these things. Yesterday I went through an intersection that used to be a nightmare when it had 2 stop signs. Now it's a roundabout. You could wait for 10 minutes for a gap in traffic before you could cross. Now you just proceed through the circle.
Definitely not an issue in Nebraska. Admittedly, I didn't know multi lane circles existed, until watching Aerial America and looking at Highway 1 further south of where the episode starts, down in LA.
If you think about roundabouts as normal intersections it is much easier to wrap your mind around. Don't be distracted by all the cars in the animation. The only thing i would add is that because it is possible for people to miss their exit, cars on right side lane should yield to the left lane if they miss the second exit, which forces the driver to have to go all the way around. If you think about it, if you're on the right lane, you typically shouldn't be making left hand turns anyway.
What always throws me off is the "exiting from the inside lane" concept. To do that you're always crossing over the outside lane at the last second which causes confusion.
Actually no, now that I look at it again, the outside lane is always exiting the next available exit, so someone exiting from the inside lane should never be blocking anyone coming around the outside. As long as the roundabout is designed the way it appears in this thumb.
@@tinderbox218 My question is, if you enter from 6 into the inner lane to get off at 9, and a car comes in from 12 into the outer lane to get off at 6 (I.e., go straight). Who has the right of way? I would assume the car in the inner lane but that’s what scares me since if the car in the outer lane keeps going as you try to get off, you could have a collision. It seems kind of a grey zone to me.
@@skateboarding118 the car turning left. It was in the roundabout before the car entering at 12 was. Simple rule. Give way to traffic already in roundabout before entering.
@@skateboarding118 Cars already have the right of way when they’re inside. So the car coming from 12 would have to look & WAIT until car from 6 passes them
Just started driving and there's this roundabout I have to go through to get to the gym I hate it because it's kind of confusing and scary also someone honked at me I think I might have cut them off sorry 😅 I'll just go around next time 😭
People taking the 3rd exit are in their right to cut you off if you're just entering from the second exit (from their perspective). This video is wrong and misleading.
yeah, a truck decided to use both lanes at the same time even though i was beside him as he cam all the way over in my lane and ran me off to the middle or center of the roundabout
@@Huso9922 Sounds stupid, but I suppose your streets are marked differently and it makes sense to you. In Romania you signal right for the first exit, don't signal for the second and signal left for the 2 other exits (at least that's common practice around here, I don't know what's written in the law).
@@zaxlorax7605 Seams a bit pointless. If a car is signalling left you need to know where it entered to know when it exits, and that would (at lest by Polish law) must be signaled by the right blinker.
This video would have been a lot better if there weren't 74 vehicles coming into the animation at once. I've been driving these things for over 15 years and know them inside and out, but after watching the video I can see how people would become confused. Absolutely failure of an animation. You used so many cars it became distracting and I wasn't even sure what car to watch.
I disagree. The actions being discussed were highlighted, and the multiple vehicle animations demonstrate how a driver performing these actions would need to interact with other vehicles. I found the video helpful, considering that there are very few traffic circles in my area, so I don't have much experience with them.
I think it's ok, in that it resembles what happens in real life in a roundabout i.e. multiple vehicles entering and exiting so maybe it helps with distributive attention.
HOW can this be safer than a 4way stop? ? ? If I was forced into this nightmare contraption . . . I'd be on it all day long trying to figure out how to get out of it . . .unless I was the only car
@@thomasliptak9469 stopping is the least worrysome option for causing a crash. You got at least half the folks behind the wheel of their car not having the slightest idea what to do. Don't you think the potential of a crash is higher there?
i love how, it is not just the cars that appear that matter, just normal traffic simulation also happens, like, some cars that just are there to simulate traffic are NOT necessary, but it looks way better if you have them
As I get older, whenever I am able to drive a car after I pass my driving test and getting a license, I feel like traffic circles can be a nightmare to me because I have to wait for the cars to yield on the opposite side of the traffic circle lane and it can be difficult for me to stay in my lane if there are more than 1 lane in traffic. But I still have to follow the traffic laws and rules so I can be considerate to other drivers and pedestrians.
It's not about "stupid drivers." Some people have simply never encountered a traffic circle before. That's what videos like this are for. Before you learned how to navigate a traffic circle, you were, in fact, a "stupid driver."
Yes, stupid drivers because they’ve never encountered a certain situation before. I mean, why don’t the people automatically know it? If I hand a random stranger a book written in French, even if they have never seen a french word in their life, I expect them to translate the entire book into English, and if they can’t, then they must just be an autist or something.
As a non-driver I have a hard time crossing at roundabouts because so many drivers don't change their indicators when they leave the roundabout I have wait and see if they are continuing around or coming off at the exit I am trying to cross.
People should not signal before entering the round about. Purpose of signal is to inform other road users about your intention, when the you have multiple options. Reason for why we do not signal while driving straight, for the same reason we should not signal before entering a round about too. Watch the video from 0.16 sec onward until 0.18 sec, blue car approaching from the left side of the roundabout(from our point of view) put a left signal before entering the round about which may easily confused the yellow car entering the round about straight(from our point of view). However, while exiting the round about traffic must signal the intention. Apart from this, it's a good video on the matter, very helpful to understand the procedure.
As a 20 year+ truck driver I have yet to come across a roundabout large enough for a modern semi; on the whole continent! Either the radius is too small and my trailer rides on the center curb or I take both lanes, angering the car drivers to no end.... Thank you ever so much; as if I need another reason to damage my vehicle or more people hating me and trying to 'teach me a lesson'!
My dad drove truck for 25 years...and too many people don't understand what truck drivers have to do to maneuver around. Not to mention the average citizen driver (non truck drivers) are morons in a big hurry for no legit reason.
Sorry UK guy here. In the UK, you are normally expected to exit roundabouts in the outside lane. So looking at the example at 0:58, indicating and switching to the outside lane as you pass the exit before the one you intend to take is the right approach. The car coming into the roundabout in this example is supposed to yield to you anyway as you are already in the roundabout, so, there should be no collision. But we are required to check mirrors anyway and make sure idiots like that don't exist
I agree with you. Turning right to exit the circle (roundabout) from the inside lane looks very dangerous. Made especially dangerous because drivers on your outside in this demonstration could be continuing to the next exit.
If you want to U-turn in a roundabout or a whole way around, you have to enter the very left lane, signal left, yield and proceed when safe. Exit by signaling right and stay on the very left lane, a similar rule to turn left of ¾ way around.
dont know which country you’re from but spralling to the outside lane in encouraged in the UK, as the last states the driver should be on the outer (left) lane unless overtaking or turning right
I mean it’s a good demonstration, but I had a very difficult time keeping up with the animation and what was being said. But it really helped me understand a double land around about. Because I’m not very good with them myself. Innoway for me they are kind of confusing.
What if there's two vehicles in the circle side by side, the inner car is exiting right, and the car on the outside lane is going straight, who has the right of way, the one turning right or going straight?
Two questions: 1) Why all the cars have blinkers on all the time? They are only necessary when exiting the roundabout 2) Why are the back blinkers red and not orange?
Traffic circles, or rotaries, are much larger than modern roundabouts. The graphic at right shows the size of a traffic circle (in green) compared to the smaller modern roundabout (in grey). Traffic circles often have stop signs or traffic signals within the circular intersection.
These roundabouts did not exist years ago when I first took my driving test. I encountered one, didn't know what it was, and almost had an accident, because nobody was taught what to do.
These rules are a little different than what I learned in New England's rotaries. While most rotary circles have the "yield to traffic already in the rotary" rule, there are some where traffic in the rotary must yield to entering traffic. Also, around here, we are taught not to change lanes when *entering* the rotary, but to always merge to the right to *exit*. Using the left lane to go straight ahead would be frowned upon unless the exit had multiple lanes. The right-hand lane is our default "straight-through" lane at a rotary. With the left lane only being used by traffic going more than half-way around. With signalling, it makes no sense to me to signal left to take an exit that is straight ahead. Certainly, I would always signal right once I've passed the exit immediately prior to my intended exit, but I would not signal left unless I my exit was to the left of where I entered. The rules for signalling and lane usage in New England's rotaries mostly mirror those of Old England's roundabouts.
Same principles in the UK regarding merging, only opposite as we drive on the left. We're taught to merge to the left as we are passing the exit just before ours, that way traffic entering knows not to move yet as they can see we're exiting. We also don't signal for straight ahead, other than when exiting.
None of this works if anyone stays in the outside lane, crossing incoming traffic. And, oh snap, you have to do that or risk cutting off the inside traffic. These things suck.
I never knew you were supposed to exclusively use the inside lane to go halfway or 3/4 around. Fortunately I've never been in a busy roundabout. So do they have signs with these instructions for people approaching? A simple double diagram showing the correct paths - one with a right turn, and another diagram showing a combination of proper 1/2, 3/4 or full turn - would illustrate it well, that is, assuming people know what they mean. But people planning their trips driving to a location with roundabouts for the first time won't be giving this much thought until they arrive at the roundabout and collapse a building or something.
Unfortunately - AMA isn't correct at the 18 second mark... you are allowed to make a right hand lane turn from the inside lane (and you have right of way if there is a car in the outside lane - you just have to yield right of way if there is a car coming from inside the traffic circle on your left.) Edmonton Police Services confirmed it: twitter.com/sparken_87/status/1156275251765899264
Before entering roundabout as vehicle approached at yield sign; If u are on Right Lane intended to exist 1st exit , use Right signal before entering into roundabout, (otherwise no need for signal) same for Left lane vehicle (if intended to exit 1st exit) but if the Vehicle at Left or Right Lane intended Not to exit at 1st Exit, No need for any signal, and will use signal when both has entered inside the roundabout; right signal for 2nd exit for 3rd use left signal (shows not going straight)and immediately right signal to exit at 3rd exit;
Question, if you enter the inside/left lane and you want to exit on the opposite side/straight across/half-way around but you have someone beside you in the outside/right land, do you have the right of way to exit? If the person in the right lane decided to go to the next exit, you'd collide when you cross into their lane.
When I was first learning how to drive I started in a roundabout just because there were two in the area I was practicing but I swear mine were only a one lane turn right only typa thing so to see one so big and complicated is interesting to say the least
Depends on the road. I know one that is 3 lane with traffic lights where 2 moterways enter the city. It works great but without traffic lights it had many minor low speed accidents. Most common mistake on roundabouts is that you see the person ahead of you taking off so your instinct is to look left and see if you can take off yourself. You end up driving forward but not noticing that the driver ahead braked again so you rear end him at low speeds. Its mostly minor damage but its a stupid thing that can happen to everyone so fast.
This is helpful. I'm so overwhelmed. I grew up in a country where women were not allowed to drive no matter what. So I never payed attention when anyone else drove, as I thought I wouldn't get the chance to drive. Now, I've moved countries and am getting overwhelmed by things which are common sense to teenagers here
na they ain't common sense. I didn't even know how to fasten my seatbelt before taking my first driving lesson. I didn't even know you were supposed to use specific lanes for turning left/right until I was like 15. I absolutely sucked at turning the steering wheel properly for the first half of my driving lessons. It seems incredibly hard at first, but it gets waaaaay easier after your first few hundred kilometres of driving alone. I'm now a great driver. It's as if me and the car were the same entity, Jinba ittai type of crap, but I sucked hard at first. Don't sweat it. You prolly got your license already, so I wish you easy roads ahead and loads of confidence.
lol . . . . I was a CA driver for 40 yrs . . . The one thing that causes the most traffic congestion on busy CA highways is that for some reason the CA driver does NOT like to yield to anyone for ANY reason. Yielding is crucial for a successful roundabout.
In the Netherlands there is a small difference. You start to blink before you get on the roundabout for left (3/4) or right (1/4). You don't blink if you want 1/2. But you blink always if you leaving the roundabout. In the video in Canada you blink left (3/4) before you hit the roundabout, and you go 1/2. Why ? Confusing the one at the first (1/4) round who wants to get on the roundabout. Can I get 1/4 without any problems.
Why the hell would you need to indicate left in a roundabout (unless you're changing lanes in a multi-lane roundabout)? Where else are you going to go, you have 2 options. Take the exit or stay in the roundabout. Where else would you go? If you're not taking the exit then where the fuck else are you going to go? Up in space, maybe? Or maybe you wanna drive into the middle of the roundabout since you're indicating left to take the "exit" left. When driving on a "normal" single lane road, do you indicate left at every left bend? If not, then why do it in a roundabout... A roundabout is just an infinetly curved lane.
Just seems like a terrible idea in general, imagine never having seen a two lane traffic circle before and approaching it on the "inside" lane, and being utterly confused about how to proceed to get into it, not to mention having wait on traffic from the outer circle to properly get to the inside circle that you are meant to be in. Not to mention the 'preferred' method is to signal to the inside lane ahead of the circle, which depending on traffic may not be possible unless you are already familiar with the area and if traffic isn't bad. I play Eurotruck Simulator 2 a lot, and this monstrosity is the bane of my existence in that game.
Well, in Spain (I don't know about the rest of Europe) this is not the way people drive in roundabouts. However, I personally think this is the only way in which roundabouts should be taken. Please, do us a favor and spread the word around here.
Damnit. I was trying to read a comment but because of the stupid app of this on mobile through Facebook I ended up accidentally reported it and it disappeared. Now I can't unreport it nor read the helpful thing. X
most important thing in traffic is: "if you will getting inside the elevator, bus, or train.., make room for people that will going outside first." it will save much of your time..
One case the video does not make clear is whether when turning right from the right lane one should yield to the traffic in the inside/left lane of the circle. 0:07 speaks about that, but it shows not yielding to the right lane. One would think it does apply to both lanes, but the rest of the video shows many cases when the car on the right lane enters the circle when there is already a car in the left/inside lane in the circle.
It’s the same as an intersection with a dedicated turn lane just it been made into a circle look at the outside lane far right lane as the turn right only lane now he did say you can go straight but it’s not permitted mostly and look at the far left lane as your turning left lane at a normal intersection. If you wanna take your first exit stay in the far right lane yield to traffic in the circle then just go right if you wanna take exit 2 3 or do a complete u turn and go back the way you came stay in the left lane yield to traffic in the circle and just go around the circle and exit on the 4th exit. To make it simple stay in whatever lane you entered on and exit with that lane and if a traffic circle dose allow you to go around in the far right just exit in the far right lane it’s really simple
little difference here when going straight on through a roundabout you don't signal left - when approaching you signal as if you approaching a normal intersection as if no circle, left for left, right for right, NONE when going straight on as if there is no "roundabout" - you signal left (but going straight) then person on the other road (to ya right) ALSO like to go straight is not surprised when they are not following you in your left turn
I'm comfortable driving in bad construction areas, highways, etc, but one day, while driving on the wealthier side of town, I stumbled onto one of these, and i was so confused. Traffic circles suck
The video is very much effective. Every driver should watch and understand the learning. May we use the videos for the drivers of Bangladesh prior to acknowledging your credentials.
You missed a scenario....probably the biggest one of them all. You are driving on the inside lane and you do a 3/4 circle and exit but as you are exiting there is a car driving on the outside lane that is not exiting .... you are basically cutting them off when you exit the circle. How do you avoid this? Please show us this scenario. Thank you.
Then it's just like changing the lane in a normal road, the inner car must yield and moderate the speed until path is clear. Simply stop and remember to blink out and wait. Simply put : cars allready inside the roundabout must observe normal yield rules towards one and other. But the most important thing to remember ABOUT roundABOUTS is that ALL cars outside(not yet entered)the roundabout MUST yield to cars allready INSIDE. No matter what lane/position the car is in. What this means that you should allways check your right shoulder when exiting, if you have to stop...stop. It wouldn't take long for the outer lane to clear, and new traffic can't enter without deference to existing traffic, they must yield to you because they didn't enter simultaneously with you. There will allways be an opening. You could in theory also take another roundtrip if you missed your turn, but you shouldn't be afraid to slow down because its important that you check your right shoulder when changing position in a roundabout.
I have a problem with roundabouts i think there is not a common rule for all of them which is very bad... for example if you have a roundabout that has two exit but both are more than half of the roundabout distance from entry? Or if the roundabout has 3-4 lanes? but exits and entries have like 1 or 2 or a mix of 1 and 2?
I hope they add this to the high school driver's education curriculum learning how to do roundabouts I'm sure our state might be smart and do it but then again you know Alabama roll tide I'm looking up how to drive it not to drive it and more than anything I want to see one in use with heavy traffic sort of equivalent to a highway intersection in a large town but this is in Anniston Alabama. Maybe a Canadian Brothers can teach us something I'm going to be looking for the fails though because I want to see how they screwed up. I know it's going to make me fear the damn thing more but once I relax I think it will help.
There are 2 roundabouts being built on roads that I use regularly and I’m terrified. This looks so complex and hard to wrap your head around. Not only that, but the roundabouts are being built next to 2 SCHOOLS. Do they honestly think that teenage drivers will be able to use these safely? It’s just asking for a wreck to happen. I’m not sure if the roundabouts are going to be one lane or 2 lane, ODOT just says their building 2 roundabouts. The existing intersection is already pretty bad, why make it worse?
The vid is terrible and complicated, and it is a roundabout not a traffic circle. The "alberta motor association" should make a training in Europe lmao. I'm French and we have around 100 000 roundabouts, pretty safe !
i also had trouble with this video for that exact reason. There are several animated cars moving at once, and I have no idea which one I'm supposed to be looking at.
Yes, it's poor, until you figure out to ignore the blue cars and look for the red, yellow and green ones. I'm assuming it's an excerpt from a longer video and you've already been conditioned to look for the non-blue cars.
I only realized part way through the video that the vehicle being talked about was a different colour than the others, and it was usually entering from the bottom of the screen. They should have stated this right at the beginning.
In Canada, does the law say you have to turn left at the entrance? In Romania, the law only provides that the signaling of the change of direction is made 50m before the maneuver ... in a roundabout you rarely travel 100m. Then the entrance to a decentralized intersection should be signaled ... In the present example, you say that you signal left at the entrance in the direction but in fact you turn right to bypass the marking! However, by signaling to the left at the entrance, you imply that you are climbing in the center of the direction.
An excellent first performance. But there was one thing you missed. Did you see a problem? Of course, for the entire duration of this instruction, there was a single-seat, twin-engine, supermaneuverable Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E air defense fighter
The paint is worn off on one near me, people drive in as straight a line as possible going through on one side, crossing between the two lanes as if there was only one. Can't say I recall anyone using turn signals at all. I won't drive anywhere remotely beside another car in it. One exit has a right turn exit right after it, making the 1/4 turn from the outside/right lane very inconvenient.
Here are rules for medium or heavy vehicles and emergency vehicles: 1. Give way to them before you enter. 2. Don't block or cut them off. 3. If you're driving a medium, heavy or emergency vehicle, make sure you have enough space while you're in a roundabout.
Question: if I’m coming from bottom on left side lane and going to the top, and another vehicle is coming from right on right side lane and going across to left, who has right of way when I am about to turn right to get across?
I looked this up so I wouldn’t be as scared driving in roundabouts. Now I’m more scared
I just got pulled over and got a warning by state patrol for changing lanes in the roundabout 😡
@@Bob-nb4yo At least now you know not to do that
Don’t worry in practice it’s very good
@@LuckTank What's wrong with that as long as you yield?
@@zaxlorax7605 It needlessly add another potential point of collision
For people that still seem confused. To make it more simple. The three most important things to remember are:
1. You may only use the right lane if you plan on exiting the traffic circle on the first or second exit only (the first two right hand turns). But not if you want to use any exit after the second exit.
2. You can use the left hand lane if you plan on exiting traffic circle from any exit except the very first right hand turn. (You can use it on the second exit, the third and to go all the way around the circle if you want, but never use the left lane if you want to use the first exit on your right)
3. Don't change lanes inside the circle.
Danny Campbell Thanks.
+Danny Campbell Nonsense
+Danny Campbell ... As long as you yield to traffic to your left, it is legal though not recommended to use the right lane for the 3rd exit. Buses and large vehicles do this. I used to ride ETS buses regularly and they always use the right lane.
+Gary Cameron TRAFFIC CIRCLE is driving straight over and over again, and always turn to the right. Not to turn left.
incorrect. If two vehicles enter at the same time beside each other, one in each lane, and the left lane car wants to go straight through and the right lane car wants to take the 3rd exit and gets hit by the car in the left lane, the car in the right lane will be at fault every single time.
Jeez this looks terrifying.
It's not but it's supposed to be so people slow down, just NEVER signal left in a roundabout even though it shows cars are.
It is
American here. I hope we get traffic circles like these as more standard issue soon. If you sit and look at it for like 10 minutes, it isn't that hard to figure out
@Amari Joseph I encounter 5 roundabouts within 1 miles of each other whenever I go to my parents place. I live in Iowa and lots of new neighborhoods are putting these in. And some are being constructed in existing areas.
Also getting more of these. ruclips.net/video/Zd5AatLWvcg/видео.html
@Amari Joseph the roundabouts are easy if you pay attention. Will get cut off many times tho. The interstate diaminds are more rare, but once you've been through them a few times it's not too bad.
I can't keep up with the animation. I need to pause and rewind a bunch of times.
I thought the same thing as you. you're not the only one that would think of doing that. I see your comment is one year old.
you can adjust the playback speed in the settings. I use this for lots of videos.
@@dariusanderton3760 that's not the point
Just stay the hell away from these nightmares. I'd like to hear the reasoning for putting more and more of these things in. I've heard people say that they're "safer" . . . . . HOW it the hell can that be? ? ? ?
I've changed my mind about these things. Yesterday I went through an intersection that used to be a nightmare when it had 2 stop signs. Now it's a roundabout. You could wait for 10 minutes for a gap in traffic before you could cross. Now you just proceed through the circle.
Roundabouts are much safer with just one lane.
but useless on a street with a lot of cars
True
Definitely not an issue in Nebraska. Admittedly, I didn't know multi lane circles existed, until watching Aerial America and looking at Highway 1 further south of where the episode starts, down in LA.
using colorful guideline on lanes will help figure out that pb.
draw big arrow guideline on the road which this video described
Two lanes in a circle makes zero sense to me
Animations were confusing. Took me awhile to realize what car I’m supposed to be looking at
look just to the highlighted one :D
Exactly my thought!
This is freaking difficult. Sounds easy but is not. The driver must know the route in order to NOT miss the traffic circle rules..
If you think about roundabouts as normal intersections it is much easier to wrap your mind around. Don't be distracted by all the cars in the animation. The only thing i would add is that because it is possible for people to miss their exit, cars on right side lane should yield to the left lane if they miss the second exit, which forces the driver to have to go all the way around. If you think about it, if you're on the right lane, you typically shouldn't be making left hand turns anyway.
What always throws me off is the "exiting from the inside lane" concept. To do that you're always crossing over the outside lane at the last second which causes confusion.
YES! can someone explain this
Actually no, now that I look at it again, the outside lane is always exiting the next available exit, so someone exiting from the inside lane should never be blocking anyone coming around the outside. As long as the roundabout is designed the way it appears in this thumb.
@@tinderbox218 My question is, if you enter from 6 into the inner lane to get off at 9, and a car comes in from 12 into the outer lane to get off at 6 (I.e., go straight). Who has the right of way? I would assume the car in the inner lane but that’s what scares me since if the car in the outer lane keeps going as you try to get off, you could have a collision. It seems kind of a grey zone to me.
@@skateboarding118 the car turning left. It was in the roundabout before the car entering at 12 was. Simple rule. Give way to traffic already in roundabout before entering.
@@skateboarding118 Cars already have the right of way when they’re inside. So the car coming from 12 would have to look & WAIT until car from 6 passes them
Just started driving and there's this roundabout I have to go through to get to the gym I hate it because it's kind of confusing and scary also someone honked at me I think I might have cut them off sorry 😅 I'll just go around next time 😭
Same
Anyone else come here after so many people cutting you off in a roundabout? It made me second guess the rules lol
I just searched roundabout (JJBA) and this popped up
I’m here cause i can’t sleep
I have a driving test this month and I just suck at driving 👌🏾
People taking the 3rd exit are in their right to cut you off if you're just entering from the second exit (from their perspective). This video is wrong and misleading.
yeah, a truck decided to use both lanes at the same time even though i was beside him as he cam all the way over in my lane and ran me off to the middle or center of the roundabout
Indicating left for when you are driving into the roundabout?!?!
-European
That's normal procedure in Norway
@@Huso9922 Sounds stupid, but I suppose your streets are marked differently and it makes sense to you.
In Romania you signal right for the first exit, don't signal for the second and signal left for the 2 other exits (at least that's common practice around here, I don't know what's written in the law).
@@zaxlorax7605 Seams a bit pointless. If a car is signalling left you need to know where it entered to know when it exits, and that would (at lest by Polish law) must be signaled by the right blinker.
In Switzerland you just indicate right, if you want to exit the roundabout.
If you going into the circle why signal at all we all know you going straight into it
This video would have been a lot better if there weren't 74 vehicles coming into the animation at once. I've been driving these things for over 15 years and know them inside and out, but after watching the video I can see how people would become confused. Absolutely failure of an animation. You used so many cars it became distracting and I wasn't even sure what car to watch.
total fail. I am more confused than ever.
Mr Bobby Brown Its not difficult each example vehicle is colour coded but I’m assuming you’re too much of an idiot to realize that.
Seems as signals come on a bit early.
I disagree. The actions being discussed were highlighted, and the multiple vehicle animations demonstrate how a driver performing these actions would need to interact with other vehicles. I found the video helpful, considering that there are very few traffic circles in my area, so I don't have much experience with them.
I think it's ok, in that it resembles what happens in real life in a roundabout i.e. multiple vehicles entering and exiting so maybe it helps with distributive attention.
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Pedestrian: *i just got hit buy a car!*
Also Pedestrian: *eh*
This made me cry
Girl, you and me both. hahaha
I've never seen such a horrifying thing
What are you, American?
HOW can this be safer than a 4way stop? ? ? If I was forced into this nightmare contraption . . . I'd be on it all day long trying to figure out how to get out of it . . .unless I was the only car
@@TomLloyd-18 thats sorta the point.. it prevents you from stopping and potentially causing a crash
@@thomasliptak9469 stopping is the least worrysome option for causing a crash. You got at least half the folks behind the wheel of their car not having the slightest idea what to do. Don't you think the potential of a crash is higher there?
@@TomLloyd-18 your over thinking things, and it might be easier if you did it rather than watched it
i love how, it is not just the cars that appear that matter, just normal traffic simulation also happens, like, some cars that just are there to simulate traffic are NOT necessary, but it looks way better if you have them
ILL BE THE ROUNDABOUT, YOUR WORDS WILL MAKE YOU OUT!!!
As I get older, whenever I am able to drive a car after I pass my driving test and getting a license, I feel like traffic circles can be a nightmare to me because I have to wait for the cars to yield on the opposite side of the traffic circle lane and it can be difficult for me to stay in my lane if there are more than 1 lane in traffic. But I still have to follow the traffic laws and rules so I can be considerate to other drivers and pedestrians.
So many more people need to know this... stupid drivers are everywhere.
and what does calling people names make you?
It's not about "stupid drivers." Some people have simply never encountered a traffic circle before. That's what videos like this are for.
Before you learned how to navigate a traffic circle, you were, in fact, a "stupid driver."
Stupid design
Yes, stupid drivers because they’ve never encountered a certain situation before. I mean, why don’t the people automatically know it? If I hand a random stranger a book written in French, even if they have never seen a french word in their life, I expect them to translate the entire book into English, and if they can’t, then they must just be an autist or something.
@@dumdum7786 Or maybe the fact that knowing French isn't in the drivers handbook but Roundabouts/Traffic Circles are might play into it?
Absolutely hate these things almost been an accident every time I go through one
I just came home form from visiting a friend in a town where there were 6 of these in a Row. It was terrifying and confusing!!! What a mess!
As a non-driver I have a hard time crossing at roundabouts because so many drivers don't change their indicators when they leave the roundabout I have wait and see if they are continuing around or coming off at the exit I am trying to cross.
damn confusing
People should not signal before entering the round about. Purpose of signal is to inform other road users about your intention, when the you have multiple options. Reason for why we do not signal while driving straight, for the same reason we should not signal before entering a round about too. Watch the video from 0.16 sec onward until 0.18 sec, blue car approaching from the left side of the roundabout(from our point of view) put a left signal before entering the round about which may easily confused the yellow car entering the round about straight(from our point of view). However, while exiting the round about traffic must signal the intention. Apart from this, it's a good video on the matter, very helpful to understand the procedure.
Use outside lane for taking first exit or going ahead and use inside lane for taking any exit except the first.
As a 20 year+ truck driver I have yet to come across a roundabout large enough for a modern semi; on the whole continent! Either the radius is too small and my trailer rides on the center curb or I take both lanes, angering the car drivers to no end.... Thank you ever so much; as if I need another reason to damage my vehicle or more people hating me and trying to 'teach me a lesson'!
My dad drove truck for 25 years...and too many people don't understand what truck drivers have to do to maneuver around. Not to mention the average citizen driver (non truck drivers) are morons in a big hurry for no legit reason.
Then you don't drive in the left lane, simple.
Sorry UK guy here. In the UK, you are normally expected to exit roundabouts in the outside lane. So looking at the example at 0:58, indicating and switching to the outside lane as you pass the exit before the one you intend to take is the right approach. The car coming into the roundabout in this example is supposed to yield to you anyway as you are already in the roundabout, so, there should be no collision. But we are required to check mirrors anyway and make sure idiots like that don't exist
+Chafeh Sergi Good tip for people travelling to the UK to know!
same in Sweden and I believe it´s the same in all of the scandinavian countries at least.
I believe we have to yield to each other like polite gentlemen on the road.
Yup that's the correct approach in Europe
I agree with you. Turning right to exit the circle (roundabout) from the inside lane looks very dangerous. Made especially dangerous because drivers on your outside in this demonstration could be continuing to the next exit.
If you want to U-turn in a roundabout or a whole way around, you have to enter the very left lane, signal left, yield and proceed when safe. Exit by signaling right and stay on the very left lane, a similar rule to turn left of ¾ way around.
so to summarize: use proper indications/signals and exit on the same lane you enter the roundabout, ie do not switch lanes within the roundabout
dont know which country you’re from but spralling to the outside lane in encouraged in the UK, as the last states the driver should be on the outer (left) lane unless overtaking or turning right
if the right lane is used ONLY for turning right, you don’t have to worry about drivers cutting off the left lane
wonderful video. I'm glad that I finally found a video that shows the rules for an anticlockwise roundabout.
I mean it’s a good demonstration, but I had a very difficult time keeping up with the animation and what was being said. But it really helped me understand a double land around about. Because I’m not very good with them myself. Innoway for me they are kind of confusing.
We only have single land Round Abouts where i am thank god. Makes things a lot simpler :)
Great video, very correct explanation. Just missed the full u-turn explanation, although its pretty clear what the correct maneuver is.
Can't wait for self driving cars..
What if there's two vehicles in the circle side by side, the inner car is exiting right, and the car on the outside lane is going straight, who has the right of way, the one turning right or going straight?
I believe the video says outside must always yield to inside.
Two questions:
1) Why all the cars have blinkers on all the time? They are only necessary when exiting the roundabout
2) Why are the back blinkers red and not orange?
because american cars don't have a seperate blinker on the back for signaling , they use the stop lights as signaling lights (insane I know)
Traffic circles, or rotaries, are much larger than modern roundabouts. The graphic at right shows the size of a traffic circle (in green) compared to the smaller modern roundabout (in grey). Traffic circles often have stop signs or traffic signals within the circular intersection.
This and a multi lane roundabout takes the cake. Shittin bricks man
4 way stop, Still the safest and fastest method. There is a Mythbusters episode on it.
weird, in manitoba you only signal when exiting the traffic circle, not when entering (unless you are immediately exiting to the right)
These roundabouts did not exist years ago when I first took my driving test. I encountered one, didn't know what it was, and almost had an accident, because nobody was taught what to do.
WTF I'm more confused now.
Confused by what?
These rules are a little different than what I learned in New England's rotaries. While most rotary circles have the "yield to traffic already in the rotary" rule, there are some where traffic in the rotary must yield to entering traffic.
Also, around here, we are taught not to change lanes when *entering* the rotary, but to always merge to the right to *exit*. Using the left lane to go straight ahead would be frowned upon unless the exit had multiple lanes. The right-hand lane is our default "straight-through" lane at a rotary. With the left lane only being used by traffic going more than half-way around.
With signalling, it makes no sense to me to signal left to take an exit that is straight ahead. Certainly, I would always signal right once I've passed the exit immediately prior to my intended exit, but I would not signal left unless I my exit was to the left of where I entered.
The rules for signalling and lane usage in New England's rotaries mostly mirror those of Old England's roundabouts.
Same principles in the UK regarding merging, only opposite as we drive on the left. We're taught to merge to the left as we are passing the exit just before ours, that way traffic entering knows not to move yet as they can see we're exiting. We also don't signal for straight ahead, other than when exiting.
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Those who are complaining about many cars, the car they want you to look at is highlighted.Its as simple as that .
None of this works if anyone stays in the outside lane, crossing incoming traffic. And, oh snap, you have to do that or risk cutting off the inside traffic. These things suck.
I never knew you were supposed to exclusively use the inside lane to go halfway or 3/4 around. Fortunately I've never been in a busy roundabout. So do they have signs with these instructions for people approaching? A simple double diagram showing the correct paths - one with a right turn, and another diagram showing a combination of proper 1/2, 3/4 or full turn - would illustrate it well, that is, assuming people know what they mean. But people planning their trips driving to a location with roundabouts for the first time won't be giving this much thought until they arrive at the roundabout and collapse a building or something.
Unfortunately - AMA isn't correct at the 18 second mark... you are allowed to make a right hand lane turn from the inside lane (and you have right of way if there is a car in the outside lane - you just have to yield right of way if there is a car coming from inside the traffic circle on your left.) Edmonton Police Services confirmed it: twitter.com/sparken_87/status/1156275251765899264
I hate traffic circles!!! So damn confusing 😕
Before entering roundabout as vehicle approached at yield sign; If u are on Right Lane intended to exist 1st exit , use Right signal before entering into roundabout, (otherwise no need for signal) same for Left lane vehicle (if intended to exit 1st exit) but if the Vehicle at Left or Right Lane intended Not to exit at 1st Exit, No need for any signal, and will use signal when both has entered inside the roundabout; right signal for 2nd exit for 3rd use left signal (shows not going straight)and immediately right signal to exit at 3rd exit;
A true example of a simple concepts made to look like rocket science.
Complex, simpler might be best. However, good idea.
Question, if you enter the inside/left lane and you want to exit on the opposite side/straight across/half-way around but you have someone beside you in the outside/right land, do you have the right of way to exit? If the person in the right lane decided to go to the next exit, you'd collide when you cross into their lane.
You have the right of way. At 2:00 the video explained that cars in the right land aren't allowed to do a 3/4 turn around the traffic circle.
When I was first learning how to drive I started in a roundabout just because there were two in the area I was practicing but I swear mine were only a one lane turn right only typa thing so to see one so big and complicated is interesting to say the least
this shouldn’t even exist wtf
Am I the only one thinking that two lane roundabouts are useless
Depends on the road. I know one that is 3 lane with traffic lights where 2 moterways enter the city. It works great but without traffic lights it had many minor low speed accidents. Most common mistake on roundabouts is that you see the person ahead of you taking off so your instinct is to look left and see if you can take off yourself. You end up driving forward but not noticing that the driver ahead braked again so you rear end him at low speeds. Its mostly minor damage but its a stupid thing that can happen to everyone so fast.
traffic lights cause many more crashes and create traffic jams. just look at New York
Simply amazing! Congratulations buddy!
This is helpful. I'm so overwhelmed. I grew up in a country where women were not allowed to drive no matter what. So I never payed attention when anyone else drove, as I thought I wouldn't get the chance to drive. Now, I've moved countries and am getting overwhelmed by things which are common sense to teenagers here
na they ain't common sense. I didn't even know how to fasten my seatbelt before taking my first driving lesson. I didn't even know you were supposed to use specific lanes for turning left/right until I was like 15. I absolutely sucked at turning the steering wheel properly for the first half of my driving lessons. It seems incredibly hard at first, but it gets waaaaay easier after your first few hundred kilometres of driving alone.
I'm now a great driver. It's as if me and the car were the same entity, Jinba ittai type of crap, but I sucked hard at first. Don't sweat it. You prolly got your license already, so I wish you easy roads ahead and loads of confidence.
I have two years until I start driving and this looks super simple but I live in California and the drivers suck so I’m also kinda terrified
lol . . . . I was a CA driver for 40 yrs . . . The one thing that causes the most traffic congestion on busy CA highways is that for some reason the CA driver does NOT like to yield to anyone for ANY reason. Yielding is crucial for a successful roundabout.
In the Netherlands there is a small difference. You start to blink before you get on the roundabout for left (3/4) or right (1/4). You don't blink if you want 1/2. But you blink always if you leaving the roundabout. In the video in Canada you blink left (3/4) before you hit the roundabout, and you go 1/2. Why ? Confusing the one at the first (1/4) round who wants to get on the roundabout. Can I get 1/4 without any problems.
Why the hell would you need to indicate left in a roundabout (unless you're changing lanes in a multi-lane roundabout)? Where else are you going to go, you have 2 options. Take the exit or stay in the roundabout. Where else would you go? If you're not taking the exit then where the fuck else are you going to go? Up in space, maybe? Or maybe you wanna drive into the middle of the roundabout since you're indicating left to take the "exit" left. When driving on a "normal" single lane road, do you indicate left at every left bend? If not, then why do it in a roundabout... A roundabout is just an infinetly curved lane.
The loading circle fits PERFECTLY inside the circle in the middle of the roundabout
? What ?
I had to watch this video more than once to fully understand.
Just seems like a terrible idea in general, imagine never having seen a two lane traffic circle before and approaching it on the "inside" lane, and being utterly confused about how to proceed to get into it, not to mention having wait on traffic from the outer circle to properly get to the inside circle that you are meant to be in. Not to mention the 'preferred' method is to signal to the inside lane ahead of the circle, which depending on traffic may not be possible unless you are already familiar with the area and if traffic isn't bad. I play Eurotruck Simulator 2 a lot, and this monstrosity is the bane of my existence in that game.
Perfect video. Thanks 👍
Well, in Spain (I don't know about the rest of Europe) this is not the way people drive in roundabouts. However, I personally think this is the only way in which roundabouts should be taken. Please, do us a favor and spread the word around here.
Damnit. I was trying to read a comment but because of the stupid app of this on mobile through Facebook I ended up accidentally reported it and it disappeared. Now I can't unreport it nor read the helpful thing. X
lol good job
Which car am I looking at?
Please forward to St George Utah .
most important thing in traffic is:
"if you will getting inside the elevator, bus, or train.., make room for people that will going outside first."
it will save much of your time..
Totally help full For UAE thanks
One case the video does not make clear is whether when turning right from the right lane one should yield to the traffic in the inside/left lane of the circle.
0:07 speaks about that, but it shows not yielding to the right lane. One would think it does apply to both lanes, but the rest of the video shows many cases when the car on the right lane enters the circle when there is already a car in the left/inside lane in the circle.
It’s the same as an intersection with a dedicated turn lane just it been made into a circle look at the outside lane far right lane as the turn right only lane now he did say you can go straight but it’s not permitted mostly and look at the far left lane as your turning left lane at a normal intersection. If you wanna take your first exit stay in the far right lane yield to traffic in the circle then just go right if you wanna take exit 2 3 or do a complete u turn and go back the way you came stay in the left lane yield to traffic in the circle and just go around the circle and exit on the 4th exit. To make it simple stay in whatever lane you entered on and exit with that lane and if a traffic circle dose allow you to go around in the far right just exit in the far right lane it’s really simple
little difference here when going straight on through a roundabout you don't signal left - when approaching you signal as if you approaching a normal intersection as if no circle,
left for left, right for right, NONE when going straight on as if there is no "roundabout" -
you signal left (but going straight) then person on the other road (to ya right) ALSO like to go straight is not surprised when they are not following you in your left turn
I look up roundabout by yes for jojo reasons and get this. Thanks Alberta.
I'm comfortable driving in bad construction areas, highways, etc, but one day, while driving on the wealthier side of town, I stumbled onto one of these, and i was so confused. Traffic circles suck
If you go straight you dont use a blinker only when the next exit you take is straight you turn the blinks to the right.
Just put traffic lights and save lives.！I have been driving 20 years and I am terrified every time I enter a traffic circle！
If people learn how to use them they are much safer. They turn T-bone accidents into fender benders.
The only thing I don't agree with, even though the law permits it, is at 1:30.
I agree. Why the unnecessary exception to an already confusing situation?
The video is very much effective. Every driver should watch and understand the learning. May we use the videos for the drivers of Bangladesh prior to acknowledging your credentials.
You missed a scenario....probably the biggest one of them all. You are driving on the inside lane and you do a 3/4 circle and exit but as you are exiting there is a car driving on the outside lane that is not exiting .... you are basically cutting them off when you exit the circle. How do you avoid this? Please show us this scenario. Thank you.
That would only happen if the car in the outside lane went past the second exit, which is not allowed.
Then it's just like changing the lane in a normal road, the inner car must yield and moderate the speed until path is clear.
Simply stop and remember to blink out and wait.
Simply put : cars allready inside the roundabout must observe normal yield rules towards one and other.
But the most important thing to remember ABOUT roundABOUTS is that ALL cars outside(not yet entered)the roundabout MUST yield to cars allready INSIDE. No matter what lane/position the car is in.
What this means that you should allways check your right shoulder when exiting, if you have to stop...stop.
It wouldn't take long for the outer lane to clear, and new traffic can't enter without deference to existing traffic, they must yield to you because they didn't enter simultaneously with you. There will allways be an opening.
You could in theory also take another roundtrip if you missed your turn, but you shouldn't be afraid to slow down because its important that you check your right shoulder when changing position in a roundabout.
I will just avoid as much as possible to me it is confusing but I am 71
I have a problem with roundabouts i think there is not a common rule for all of them which is very bad... for example if you have a roundabout that has two exit but both are more than half of the roundabout distance from entry? Or if the roundabout has 3-4 lanes? but exits and entries have like 1 or 2 or a mix of 1 and 2?
I hope they add this to the high school driver's education curriculum learning how to do roundabouts I'm sure our state might be smart and do it but then again you know Alabama roll tide I'm looking up how to drive it not to drive it and more than anything I want to see one in use with heavy traffic sort of equivalent to a highway intersection in a large town but this is in Anniston Alabama. Maybe a Canadian Brothers can teach us something I'm going to be looking for the fails though because I want to see how they screwed up. I know it's going to make me fear the damn thing more but once I relax I think it will help.
There are 2 roundabouts being built on roads that I use regularly and I’m terrified. This looks so complex and hard to wrap your head around. Not only that, but the roundabouts are being built next to 2 SCHOOLS. Do they honestly think that teenage drivers will be able to use these safely? It’s just asking for a wreck to happen. I’m not sure if the roundabouts are going to be one lane or 2 lane, ODOT just says their building 2 roundabouts. The existing intersection is already pretty bad, why make it worse?
@dumdum7786 Time to sell the car a buy a bus pass
I don’t remember this in driving school. Terrifying
The vid is terrible and complicated, and it is a roundabout not a traffic circle. The "alberta motor association" should make a training in Europe lmao.
I'm French and we have around 100 000 roundabouts, pretty safe !
Horrid video. You have like a million cars just flying around and it's ultimately distracting.
i also had trouble with this video for that exact reason. There are several animated cars moving at once, and I have no idea which one I'm supposed to be looking at.
Yes, it's poor, until you figure out to ignore the blue cars and look for the red, yellow and green ones. I'm assuming it's an excerpt from a longer video and you've already been conditioned to look for the non-blue cars.
Isn't there usually traffic on your streets? Sheesh.
I only realized part way through the video that the vehicle being talked about was a different colour than the others, and it was usually entering from the bottom of the screen. They should have stated this right at the beginning.
just like real life
In Canada, does the law say you have to turn left at the entrance?
In Romania, the law only provides that the signaling of the change of direction is made 50m before the maneuver ... in a roundabout you rarely travel 100m. Then the entrance to a decentralized intersection should be signaled ...
In the present example, you say that you signal left at the entrance in the direction but in fact you turn right to bypass the marking!
However, by signaling to the left at the entrance, you imply that you are climbing in the center of the direction.
When yielding to oncoming traffic, is it like a 4-way intersection where whoever stops at the line first has the right away??
An excellent first performance. But there was one thing you missed. Did you see a problem?
Of course, for the entire duration of this instruction, there was a single-seat, twin-engine, supermaneuverable Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E air defense fighter
this is the easiest traffic system only a retard would get it wrong its called use the cross lane!
This is probably doable, but you make it sound impossible. Right, I'm going to remember ten separate rules.
There are a lot accidents on Russian traffic circles because the Russian rules are very different from these, I believe.
Hi what software did you use to create such an amazing animation videos?
nice short and clear 👌
The paint is worn off on one near me, people drive in as straight a line as possible going through on one side, crossing between the two lanes as if there was only one. Can't say I recall anyone using turn signals at all. I won't drive anywhere remotely beside another car in it. One exit has a right turn exit right after it, making the 1/4 turn from the outside/right lane very inconvenient.
In Argentina they go by the Right Hand Traffic Rule! Strainge but ture.
Here are rules for medium or heavy vehicles and emergency vehicles:
1. Give way to them before you enter.
2. Don't block or cut them off.
3. If you're driving a medium, heavy or emergency vehicle, make sure you have enough space while you're in a roundabout.
dubai license is make me crazy before two years i am behind the license this license is give me too much hurt
Question: if I’m coming from bottom on left side lane and going to the top, and another vehicle is coming from right on right side lane and going across to left, who has right of way when I am about to turn right to get across?