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by rembicilious
974 days ago
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It’s still safer than a normal intersection.
Roundabouts prevent HIGH SPEED t-bone and head-on collisions.
The difference in safety is easily worth the “cognitive load” of a 2-lane roundabout. I think drivers will get used to them and in practice there will be few collisions. |
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I think drivers will avoid them at all costs since even low speed collisions can cause extremely expensive repairs (and even total an older vehicle) meaning they'll never get the practice they need to navigate them safely, yet eventually those drivers will find themselves in a situation where a roundabout can't be avoided and suddenly it's chaos for every car in the intersection.
Even if multi-lane roundabouts were suddenly everywhere we'd probably need generations of new drivers trained to use them in drivers ed classes as teens before you could just trust people to be able to navigate them correctly