Like… is there any law against it?
In Germany:
When using vehicles, unnecessary noise and avoidable exhaust pollution are prohibited. In particular, it is prohibited to run vehicle engines unnecessarily and to close vehicle doors excessively loudly. Unnecessary driving to and fro within built-up areas is prohibited if it causes a nuisance to others.
§30 (1), StVO
Closing doors too loudly is illegal what the fuck?
Noise is a public nusince. I definitely wouldn’t want my neighbours constantly slamming their doors at night. I doubt you are going to get fined if you are slamming your door occasionally or in the middle of the woods.
Laws exist to ensure that we can all live peacefully together. I think most people agree that excessive noise is more of a negative than a positive. Most places have similar curfew laws where excessive noise at night is not allowed.
Yes, if you slam your doors every day at 3am you will be fined. Is there anything wrong with that?
I guess I’ve just never even heard of that situation happening in real life so it’s weird seeing it explicitly written in a law
Some laws are reactionary and some are preemptory. Laws are, most simply, a codified agreement on how we live.
What if that just happens to be the time I get home from work?
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Found the guy stuck in the roundabout
Look kids, Big Ben
Parliament
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In my country you are only allowed three rounds max. But I have not heard of any case where someone was fined for such a “crime”.
How do you even know that? Is there a sign or something?
They teach it to you in driving school. No need for signs since it counts for every roundabout.
Hilarious
Yes, as laws sometimes are…
Where do you live, OP?
In Denmark it goes in the same category as not driving when the light is green or keeping to the left on the highway.
While you seldomly see someone get fined for it, taking more than two turns in the roundabout is considered an obstruction of traffic, and therefore illegal.
In Norway, there’s a specific “law” against causing dangerous situations by being inattentive, unpredictable, inconsiderate or reckless. Needless to say, it goes unenforced a lot, but if you wanted to nail someone for driving like a dipshit, it’d be a decent catch-all.
In Sweden, we have a classic joke that Norwegian roundabouts have the sign “Maximum 3 rounds”.
You’ll probably not be surprised to hear we have the exact same joke about Swedes.
You’d need to refuel at some point and I expect that refuelling whilst in motion would probably hit some legal issues.
And then, assuming that you overcame that, in the UK at least, you’d need at MOT test at some point, which would have to be at an approved test centre, so 3 years at the absolute max - although I expect tyres etc would need attention before that.
If jets can refuel mid-flight, I’d think a similar solution should be even easier for a much-slower car.
BMW did it: Video link
I’m hearing that there’s a need for gas / petrol / whatever stations in more roundabouts. Maybe even a rest stop or extended stay hotel.
Obviously it’s all going to be dependent on local laws, and depending on their vagueness the attitude of the cop that eventually has to deal with you. Here we have a catch-all ticket for “wasting finite resources” for cops to use when they don’t know what else to ticket you for. Originally it was to stop cruising, but I’m pretty sure no one has gone cruising since gas was $0.25 a gallon. Also I’m wondering if I could fight such a ticket if I can prove I charge my car with 100% solar.
Roads have finite capacity, so no, I’d guess
Also batteries lose capacity, making them finite as well
Your current gas prices are about at the level where a lot of people used to cruise at where I live. Haven’t really seen it much since it rose to about 2€ per liter (7.57€ or $8.29 per gallon).
Omg… How can anyone afford those prices? Last time I filled up I think it was $2.73 per gallon.
It’d be called ‘obstructing traffic’. Police sometimes grab boy-racers along the sea-front near my home for it. There’s no specific law saying you can’t wait at a T-junction indefinitely, and i usually get stuck behind the ones that do. :-(
“Boy-racer” is a term I wish I had known years ago to refer to some acquaintances. Seems much less offensive than what I was using.
Only if you’re playing Yes at high volume.
I suspect that when your car runs out of gas and stalls in the middle of the suicide circle you could get a ticket for blocking traffic or something.
You could probably stay on the magic roundabout until you ran out of fuel.
But I doubt you could go all the way around a mini roundabout .
The UK Highway Code is focussed on good behaviour when using one. There doesn’t seem to be a rule.
I would definitely try at least a couple of loops around that little guy. Just look at it! How could you resist!?
Illegal in my country, as you are disturbing traffic. Potentially even preventing emergency services to operate. Might be fine if you are alone though
i mean, if everyone was staying on the roundabout… but if you have one guy goin round and round, there should be plenty of interleave for everyone else. how would it be disruptive?
im an ignorant american, just curious
Because if you let one guy do it, you have to let everyone do it.
During rush hour, it will definitely have an impact on the flow of traffic with most roundabouts, which are usually not very big (in France anyway).
if you are without food or water you become incapable and that is illegal
Look kids, Parliament, Big Ben!
