Basically the title but when we do a “U” turn we actually make a small n not a U.
Maybe it depends on your vehicle? I definitely do more U than “n” turns
Vehicles vary greatly in turn radius, and it’s not just size. I’ve had big vehicles that could do a U turn just about anywhere, but that damn Saturn…how could a small sedan be so bad at tight turns?
I believe OPs point has to do with the direction. From a top-down perspective driving forwards would look like driving upwards, then turning and driving downwards, like an n. U flipped/rotated 180 degrees.
Ahh that makes more sense. I was thinking about the nub of the “n” being included as part of the motion
Yeah the nub invalidates the n. It’s the wrong shape.
An n turn would have to be a U-turn with other vehicles entering. Add any more entrances and you’d have a roundabout.
To make an n-turn, you’d need to star from the other side of the street, drive forward, and then back up while steering around the bend.
When creating traffic laws and regulations, this was deemed too dangerous, so they went with “u”.
(You should have seen the options when they were using a serif font…)
In China they call them biang biang turns.
Biang a U-ey is something we have here too.
I’ll Xiè myself out
Just call it an intersection turn and use ∩
It’s Unicode U+2229. So I guess we all can formally agree to call it U+2229 turn ? Or in short U turn ? No ?
Yesssss
How do you pronounce it though? 🤔
“backslash cap” :P
“intersection”
How come there isn’t a dedicated u turn blinker?
@Funkymatt You want something that tells people that doing a U-Turn is a normal thing to do with a car?
U-turns are expected behavior when the road has a middle divider. There will often be dedicated U-turn lanes to accommodate that, too.
My wife is a firm believer that not using a signal in a left turn lane universally means you’re u-turning.
I think your wife invented that
Personally I call ti C turn.
I honestly think it’s just because U turn is easier to say than n turn. Because U is a vowel, it doesn’t require the glottal stop that’s in n(stop)turn.
This is why I say I’m gonna “flip a bitch” instead of “make a U turn/make a U-y”
because it was originally called a You-Turn, because driving instructors said “Now you turn”, and people heard it as “Now you-turn”, and then abbreviated it as “u-turn”
I’d kinda feel uncomfortable calling it an “n-turn”.
Sounds kinda racist, honestly
As humans we are biased towards action and forward thinking. From the perspective of where you are heading after completing the turn, it was a U shaped turn
Also, technical drawings?
For any mathematician a n-turn would be a turn segmented into n directional changes. /s
…where n∈ℕ and n>1
To deepen that: does a U-turn become a n turn when you have to reverse briefly because the curve was too small and thus give your path a little uptick? n
Capitalization, I guess. “u-turn” and “U-turn” boil down to the same movement, while “n-turn” and “N-turn” don’t work so well together.
An N turn is presumably parallel parking
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Does it count as a turn if you remain pointed in the same direction?
I feel like it has to, otherwise turning 360 degrees isn’t a turn
U u
N n
