[notatoad]

>I find it hard to believe that the diverging diamond interchange from the link is less scary than a roundabout.

a (good) diverging diamond is really not scary. my first time driving through one i didn't even realize i was driving through one. if you came up to this intersection, would you be able to tell you were entering a diverging diamond? or would you think it was just a normal instersection of two one-way roads?

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9043408,-114.0639993,3a,75y,...

[otherme123]

Maybe it's that I never used one of them, so forgive me if I'm wrong: can I still go go the right it I missed the exit, and how? Can I do an U-turn and how? And finally, there are still traffic lights, and thus the potential to jump a red and t-bone someone.

I'm not really saying they are scary, but they are not less scary than a roundabout IMO.