Like… is there any law against it?
Obviously it’s all going to be dependent on local laws, and depending on their vagueness the attitude of the cop that eventually has to deal with you. Here we have a catch-all ticket for “wasting finite resources” for cops to use when they don’t know what else to ticket you for. Originally it was to stop cruising, but I’m pretty sure no one has gone cruising since gas was $0.25 a gallon. Also I’m wondering if I could fight such a ticket if I can prove I charge my car with 100% solar.
Your current gas prices are about at the level where a lot of people used to cruise at where I live. Haven’t really seen it much since it rose to about 2€ per liter (7.57€ or $8.29 per gallon).
Omg… How can anyone afford those prices? Last time I filled up I think it was $2.73 per gallon.
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Also batteries lose capacity, making them finite as well
Where do you live, OP?
In Denmark it goes in the same category as not driving when the light is green or keeping to the left on the highway.
While you seldomly see someone get fined for it, taking more than two turns in the roundabout is considered an obstruction of traffic, and therefore illegal.
How is it obstructing traffic if the flow of traffic is never interrupted?
Depending on the definition, you’re not obscuring traffic if you’re driving 60kmh in the fastlane either, or if only you manage to get over the green light because of your tardiness, as traffic is still flowing, just very, very slow.
Either way, you’ll be slowing down traffic and get in the way of other drivers, unless you are the only person on the road.
The point of a roundabout is specifically that one must not stop, that is their design. A circle of perpetual motion. Certainly stopping in a roundabout would qualify as obstruction. I do not see how, even on a crowded day, making more than two passes in a roundabout while remaining in motion qualifies as “obstruction.”
You know to get on a roundabout they can’t just phase through your car? If you don’t exit in a timely manner you’re taking up space people need to get into the roundabout and let it work. So staying is obstructing traffic.
In my country you are only allowed three rounds max. But I have not heard of any case where someone was fined for such a “crime”.
How do you even know that? Is there a sign or something?
They teach it to you in driving school. No need for signs since it counts for every roundabout.
Hilarious
Yes, as laws sometimes are…
It’d be called ‘obstructing traffic’. Police sometimes grab boy-racers along the sea-front near my home for it. There’s no specific law saying you can’t wait at a T-junction indefinitely, and i usually get stuck behind the ones that do. :-(
“Boy-racer” is a term I wish I had known years ago to refer to some acquaintances. Seems much less offensive than what I was using.
i sometimes take an extra trip through the roundabout if some asshole is driving way too close to my rear and refuses to overtake
In Germany:
When using vehicles, unnecessary noise and avoidable exhaust pollution are prohibited. In particular, it is prohibited to run vehicle engines unnecessarily and to close vehicle doors excessively loudly. Unnecessary driving to and fro within built-up areas is prohibited if it causes a nuisance to others.
§30 (1), StVO
Closing doors too loudly is illegal what the fuck?
Noise is a public nusince. I definitely wouldn’t want my neighbours constantly slamming their doors at night. I doubt you are going to get fined if you are slamming your door occasionally or in the middle of the woods.
Laws exist to ensure that we can all live peacefully together. I think most people agree that excessive noise is more of a negative than a positive. Most places have similar curfew laws where excessive noise at night is not allowed.
Yes, if you slam your doors every day at 3am you will be fined. Is there anything wrong with that?
I guess I’ve just never even heard of that situation happening in real life so it’s weird seeing it explicitly written in a law
Some laws are reactionary and some are preemptory. Laws are, most simply, a codified agreement on how we live.
What if that just happens to be the time I get home from work?
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So you’re texting while driving, uh?
We should all report you, but we’re too curious to know the source of perpetual motion that’s been powering you since May!
What do you mean perpetual motion? You guys don’t hire other drivers to fuel you while on the roundabout like they fuel planes while flying? I thought everybody had one of those in case they accidentaly entered a roundabout.
- Written from a roundabout I’ve been circling since September.
Found the guy stuck in the roundabout
Look kids, Big Ben
Parliament
…again
Look kids, Parliament, Big Ben!
I don’t see why not. I often joke about doing so, and have once or twice gone around and around, but the thrill quickly wears off after two or three passes.
I would love to watch someone commit to the bit and keep on until the authorities take issue.
Only in a milk float driven by a priest.
Only if you’re playing Yes at high volume.
Yes, there is a law. It says, misuse of public roads is forbidden. In the case of a roundabout, misuse starts with your second full circle.
maybe wanna say where, since laws everywhere are different?
laws everywhere are different?
But ours are the best ones ;-)
Germany here.
It depends how many tickets your mum bought. Even then, the owner is bound to close up at some point to go home.
Maybe have a go on the swings in the meantime?In what sort of horrible dystopian nightmare do you need to pay to take your kids to a park?
Maybe they were thinking of a fair or something?
Illegal in my country, as you are disturbing traffic. Potentially even preventing emergency services to operate. Might be fine if you are alone though
i mean, if everyone was staying on the roundabout… but if you have one guy goin round and round, there should be plenty of interleave for everyone else. how would it be disruptive?
im an ignorant american, just curious
During rush hour, it will definitely have an impact on the flow of traffic with most roundabouts, which are usually not very big (in France anyway).
interesting, i didnt think about scale. thanks!
Because if you let one guy do it, you have to let everyone do it.
