You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind cannot comprehend this.

They've started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.

Roundabouts are even better.
- I didn't realize there was a difference

Laughs in Australian

Schaut mal, Kinder, Big Ben

are we talking about feet hours or meter hours?

American here, I have no problem with them. There was a roundabout nearby in my city. When they unleashed it, the first driver brave enough to traverse it swerved off the road and died on the spot. It caused such a scene that the next 3 cars watching entered the wrong way and started to pile up. More cars piled up over the coming weeks, it couldn't be taped off because the city service workers were unfortunately not Europeans and also could not traverse the labyrinth, they too piled up and died of starvation. Eventually it collapsed into a singularity under its growing weight (Americans are fat, so it was over the Chandrasekhar limit), cars add into the eternal swirl each day and emanate slowly as Hawking radiation. It's quite beautiful to see.

I've taken a trip to see this infamous roundabout - it's quite pretty at night!
- Interestingly they spin counterclockwise here, but clockwise in Australia.
How can one be too stupid to use a roundabout?
- I’ve seen
  Turning left without going around the center
  Stopping to allow someone into the roundabout intended as a kind gesture and
  My mom insisted that in her car I use the left turn signal if my roundabout exit is to the left of my entrance
- Unfortunately, it's a thing. I've had people try to merge onto the roundabout when I'm in it, and then honk at me when I didn't let them through. If any of these people ever do hit my car, I am not going to try to correct them ahead of time so that they perjurer themselves to the cop who eventually shows up to take the report.
  Which I think speaks to the terrible level of driver training in America. A roundabout is a combination of things that you should already know about as a driver, like how yield signs work, and how to stay in your lane and follow lines on the road. If you can't put those thoughts together, then I question your ability to drive safely at all.
- I don't think it's a matter of 'can't figure it out' as much as 'don't like change'. We've been putting roundabouts in my shithole state and the number of people who complain about them boggles the mind. They will successfully navigate them, but they'll whinge about it the whole time.
  This happened to me just the other day as I was chauffeuring some good old boy around. Mind you he wasn't even driving, but still had to let it be known that he disapproved. There was no traffic so I barely had to slow down to navigate the intersection and his input was "I hate these things, they just slow you down!". I tried pointing out that if it had been a 4-way stop we would have had to stop, so it was actually faster this way. I don't know if he was immune to logic or just unwilling to admit that something that was different than what he was used to had a benefit, but he just repeated that he hated them, so I dropped the subject.
- I asked my neighbor, he said Europeans are stupid for driving in circles all day. So, that's how.
for a country who's core values is Car, they suck at driving
- Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.
  Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.
- Our core value isn't Car, it's "individual freedom, especially at the cost or inconvenience of others". It just so happens that Car aligns pretty well with that
- you don't have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
This was brilliant.
I've never seen this copypasta and I love it.
- I typed it up while driving through a roundabout. It came from the hea

Mr bean, is that you?

do germans move their cars like the flintstones or how do they manage to have fuel/battery for 74hrs?

Just add a long range tank in the trunk.
A normal car can do 1600 km or 1000 miles on a tank. By normal of course I mean diesel-powered German executive class sedan or wagon with an 80 liter tank.
At the low speeds of the roundabout, you might use more fuel, so maybe it'll only do 1200 km on a tank. Just use a long range tank and you're golden. They use them in endurance racing, or to go illegally fast for extended periods of time in Cannonball Runs.
Their cars run off centrifugal force.
Two words: German Efficiency
- it's a flintstones thing then
- I hear their gas devices are very efficient.
There’s a few diesel cars that can reach that distance on one tank (though it requires hypermiling)
- I did not know
  hypermiling
  means making post-purchase changes to your car to make it more efficient. Why wouldn’t manufacturers sell them in better quality to begin with?
Since you're in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!

As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.

Do they have pit stops to recharge the batteries at Walmart? I would imagine there is also a burrito stand nearby
- They're not called burritos any more. They're called Americas.
  If you imply different you'll get deported.

You can pick up a coffee mug with a $9.99 price tag, then be asked to pay $10.74 at the register. The German mind cannot comprehend this

Not any sane mind can comprehend this.
- I can comprehend it, but I'm certainly not happy about it
Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.
- Imo it would only work here if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.
- I thought that was JC Penney's
  E: it was
I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald's. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier 'wow perfect, what are the chances'
She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.
Oregon has entered the chat
neither can the Oregonian mind
A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles
- Which are only added in fine print on the price tag usually. But it's more like 8-25 cents for cans, most plastic bottles, and some glass bottles.

Can easily do this around the Arc of Triumph

You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.

You've been turning right since at least '80...and you started far on the right already.
- Hey!
  Don’t forget Nixon.
Oh, please. There's way more to NASCAR than that.

You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.

You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They're hilariously angry about it.
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
I think those are called beltways

my citizens in Cities:Skylines

Don't forget to put a toll booth on every street
LANE CHANGE

America's been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.

Finally! People complain about them, but those people don’t understand how beneficial they are overall.
Yeah, I have a few in my Pennsyltucky town and over the years people have even learned not to stop at the yield signs!
- Yielding is a woke liberal socialist concept
They put one on a rural overpass where farmers have to cross all the time where I live. Everyone I know who lives there or farms there hates it.

Don't even have any nice landmarks on the drive, like Big Ben.

If you overshoot your destination, do you have to drive another 74 hours to get back to it?
If you turn around (going against the circle), does it go up in time?
Why did it stop at 74? Why not infinity or 99? I can plot 79 hours from Key West Florida to Anchorage Alaska

What a neat bug.

It's actually illegal to drive a car without the purpose of reaching a destination in Germany.
- lol what really?
So do Americans.

American here, you can absolutely drive at least one more hour than that. Idiots.

Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany. It's unenforceable in most cases because it's easy to make one up but if you keep circling a roundabout, there is a case to be made against you.
- Actually, driving without a destination is forbidden in Germany.
  Completely reasonable, but somehow I'm still surprised that this is a thing.

I really wanna know what they put in to Google to make it spit out that time estimate.

Probably a scripted route.

Hey look kids! It's Big Ben!

Uh, you know we have roundabouts in the US too, right?

Round about one roundabout
This is a reference to a series of old memes that popped up as a reaction to each other
https://lemmy.world/post/14474175
https://lemmy.world/post/14726913
https://lemmy.world/post/14707889
there were a lot more
You don't need a roundabout to drive around a block forever.

Only 74 hours?

Gas is expensive over here.

2,219km is only 1,378mi… that’s about the distance from the southern tip of California to the top of Washington State. Not even the width of the US.

Or the circumference of your mum's fat arse
- Or the size of your Mom's big butt.
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It also would only take around 20 hours.
- 20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that's at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training