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What's something that feels illegal to know?

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You can infinitely go around and around a roundabout or a clover leaf interchange.
- Look kids, Big Ben, Parliament
- Last time this was brought up somebody pointed out that in certain countries (Germany, I believe) it is actually illegal to drive without purpose, so endlessly circling the roundabout would be illegal. I'm so confused how this could ever be enforced though, not the roundabout thing, but generally. Not anymore, but during lockdown I would put on an audio book and just drive around the countryside for hours. The purpose was keeping me sane, but I wasn't going anywhere.
  
  In a lot of European countries we are now introducing "turbo" roundabouts where you can't even go all the way around once, and they work way better and amazingly.
  
  Interesting! Though, with the amount of confusion the roundabout in my town (California) still causes after two years in existence, I fear for my countrymen's ability to conceptualize this two lane miracle of modern wonders. I foresee a lot of attempted lane changes in the circle from people who accidentally got in the "get out on the first turn" lane.
  https://www.arcadis.com/en/knowledge-hub/blog/united-states/brian-moore/2020/bringing-the-turbo-roundabout-to-the-us
  
  I'm currently visiting my SO in the US and the way roundabouts are used here is terrifying! I've seen people just cross straight over them and I have yet to see anyone but my SO use their turn signal on them, not to mention how long people wait to get on the roundabout defeating the point entirely.
  The turbo roundabout was confusing the first or second time I was on one, but after that it made a lot of sense and was quite simple. A lot of them even have guiding arrows and signs beforehand telling you where to go, these roundabouts genuinely make it so you basically never have to stop and can just continue driving like there was never an intersection.
  It's genuinely awesome.
  
  When my city first installed roundabouts, we had more than a few people straight-up launch themselves into the air by trying to race through the middle.
  I'm not sure if those people legitimately thought that that would work, or if they played GTA too much and wanted to try a ramp in real life. The fact that I can't be sure which option caused it is a little terrifying.
  
  Option 3: they weren't paying attention while driving.
  
  There are some around here, where I live. I thought that was just so Americans would provoke fewer accidents. I've never seen them anywhere else in Germany, and none in France either
  
  Well, maybe continuously circling the roundabout *is my purpose for driving. Take that, Germany!
- Law of thermodynamics has entered the chat
- The bane of any Cities Skylines player when setting up roads wrong.
  
  Speaking of which, have you played the sequel yet?
  
  I've played it. It's pretty good. It improves many systems from 1 while keeping the same core game. It's missing a few things the DLCs for 1 added, like more pedestrian options (and biking in general) and things like that, but it's generally better. Some people have said the performance is bad, but it was good enough for me, and I'm not using a particularly modern system. YMMV.
  
  Yeah I heard about the performance issues as well, but I haven't had a chance to try it out myself. Thanks for the insight.
  
  No, I'm giving it a year to bake first.
- I often take a complete lap around a roundabout if I have people driving too close behind me, they clearly are in a rush to their accident, they don't want to be behind me, I don't want them behind me, one lap of a roundabout solves the issue to our mutual satisfaction.

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