Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ileitch 3923 days ago
I hear the argument "Americans don't understand roundabouts, therefore we wont build any" quite often in these kinds of articles. If you survey people about something they've never comes across before, of course you're going to get negative results.

If Americans can drive and talk on their cell phones, they can handle a roundabout.

3 comments

Somebody gave me the argument in NASA that the US didn't switch metric because the cost would be too high because they are so big. Ireland and UK have gone metric in our lifetimes.

I mean, there are lazy people throwing out platitudes to justify doing nothing wherever you go.

If you asked farmers what they wanted in 1900, they would have said they wanted a horse that ate half as much and did twice as much work.

What they ended up with was a tractor.

There are plenty of them in Maryland. They work great.