This is one of the most complex levels
As soon as I saw the image this is exactly what I started doing in my head.
It does not look like any bus screwed up to me. It looks scary ya I agree, but I’m sure watching this play out was very mundane and efficient.
Factorio players had this solved forever ago
No they don’t. They still have nightmare of item contamination.
Tbf, they also have the arthropod invasion sorted out.
What’s the context on this?
Buses stuck
o.o"
bus #1 needs to move so bus #2 can move
bus #2 needs to move so bus #3 can move
bus #3 needs to move so bus #4 can move
bus #4 needs to move so bus #1 can movei n f i n i t e l o o p
It we’re forcing a programming analogy, I’d go with deadlock over loop.
Spinlock even
I dread what “answer” this may bring but…why?
To clarify: this is not intentional art. This is an engineering edge case turned real by bad luck.
Normally 3 buses can use around-about without issue, and there’s plenty of 4 bus patterns that could use the intersection without creating a knot, so bus drivers probably aclimate to having another bus or two in the loop, but this just happened to have the bad luck needed to create the knot.
(And OP is calling it an art installation tongue in cheek because it’s not going anywhere for a while)
Thank you for clarifying. People are so silly.
Context is the photo where no one can exit or enter the roundabout.
I’m sorry, but this looked super easy to un fuck. The bottom driver just had to pull forward a bit and to the right, enough for the guy on the right to get through. I don’t think they were “stuck” so much as this was a cool photo with a click baity title.
They were stuck for 10 minutes and needed to be directed from the outside. It’s maybe not that long, but they struggled with figuring it out. Source (in Norwegian, this happened in Oslo): https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/3pkoP9/busser-fast-paa-alexander-kiellands-plass-i-oslo
Guy that went and directed them said they were stuck for a total of 3 minutes.
there are probably cars there facing the bottom bus, no? it’s the enter lane, not an exit lane
Also, fewer cars will help.
Jacques Tati did it better
I’m very curious about who screwed up first
I think it was a combined, synchronized effort
Apes together stuck.
Bus on left hand side of screen sealed the deal, but it was a concerted effort of fuckery
Each one of them screwed up independently. It takes a concerted effort to reach this situation.
I don’t know what’s going on in this picture, but, whatever it is, being accidental is last on my list of possible explanations
1 of 2. Either the car drivers going on the inside of the busses, hindering them enough space to make the turns, or the bus drivers allowing it to happen.
This is what my trains in satisfactory do :,)
Solution: goatse roundabout
We do a little trollino-ing.
When your factorio base logistics collapse and you have to manually unfuck the train system
Do not enter the intersection unless the exit is clear.
That’s a roundabout Sir. Different rules apply, because most often the exit is simply not visible from the entrance. You enter the roundabout when it is safe to enter. And in cases when the exit is visible, because the cars are constantly entering and moving around, you’ll never really have a clear exit even with normal traffic.
The same rules apply to a roundabout where I live, if the exit isn’t clear, you don’t enter.
People do it all the time and block the roundabout, but you’re not supposed to.
If all four arrived and entered at the exact same time, the exit might have been clear for all four.
Possibly, but I think they all thought they could fit through.
It’s also the second time it’s happened in this roundabout in a few months lol
Alexander Kiellands Plass will never not be a traffic nightmare.
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