A Call For Humor!

[ryanosaur]

That's not strictly true, there are ways to design and lay out roads that make them safer.

The Netherlands probably leads the world in this, along with some other European countries. This is often achieved by making roads narrower, or placing obstacles and bends in the road, that naturally encourage people to slow down and pay attention, especially in urban areas, where motorists encounter pedestrians and cyclists.

Which country has the safest roads in the world?

When it comes to purchasing a car, subscribing to a car service,

www.dangerousroads.org

I challenge you to prove that some random human can’t fatally fcuk it up.

Appropriately, this was brought up in a recent post here:

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Aug 17, 2025

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[thewas]

 

[xray]

That's not strictly true, there are ways to design and lay out roads that make them safer.

So are you saying that on an average road not designed that way you would not be a safe driver?

 

[Ken1951]

On one of the main roundabouts on Grand Cayman local folks come through it like they're on a racetrack! Some of the trucks are keeled over so far it looks like they're going to just fall over!

 

[Martin]

Surely you meant Fox News?

The graphic actually applies to ANY television news. They are all just different flavors of bullshit.

Martin

 

[respice finem]

The graphic actually applies to ANY television news. They are all just different flavors of bullshit.

Martin

This. And, increasingly, of AI stuff. A few years from now, it will probably be impossible to tell what is genuine (if anything).
Chinese curse: may you live in interesting times.

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

The graphic actually applies to ANY television news. They are all just different flavors of bullshit.

Martin

Luckily for us Brits, the BeeB, doesn't go in for B.S.

 

[whereisbrian]

 

[Count Arthur]

So are you saying that on an average road not designed that way you would not be a safe driver?

No, but you can be as careful and safe as you like, but you can't influence the other drivers around you. But, a road designed to force, or encourage, all drivers to be safer will make you safer too.

In general, wide, straight roads encourage people to drive faster. They are also boring, so peoples attention wanders, maybe they start fiddling with their phone or the in-car entertainment, and they are less alert. Whereas a narrower road, with bends or obstacles, forces people to pay attention and look where they're going.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole, there are quite a few very nerdy YouTube channels about road design and urban planning.

 

[JaapD]

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Ahh, that's nothing. Take a look at this one:

 

[respice finem]

In my city of birth, you can have this plus traffic lights inside the roundabout, due to tram crossing (no joke).
Oh, and with red bike lanes as a bonus. Red, probably to mask the blood stains

 

[sergeauckland]

Or the Magic Roundabout in Hemel Hempstead...

Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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[respice finem]

Marquis de Sade would be proud

 

[somebodyelse]

Luckily for us Brits, the BeeB, doesn't go in for B.S.

Well...not much anyway. They do occasionally get called out for their reporting, which they then report on, such as:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43699607
Annoying politicians of all sides similarly is usually a sign it's fairly balanced.

How they deal with misbehaving presenters is another matter...

 

[somebodyelse]

Or the Magic Roundabout in Hemel Hempstead...

Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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I've cycled round that one and it wasn't too bad. The Swindon one is less of a regular layout (only been a passenger for that one) and the Denham one is large enough to think of the roundabouts as separate.

 

[napfkuchen]

Roundabouts are dangerous ...

 

[mhardy6647]

two from hifihaven.org --

That latter one might (??) be a bit too abstrusely American for some jurisdictions.

 

[Neddy]

My city installed Concrete Flower Pots in the middle of many suburban streets....annoying, but when combined with speed bumps, does work well - even got me to slow down a bit.
I LOVE keeping an eye on newly constructed roundabouts - the number of 'unaware' late night drunks that go right over them is hilarious - including a dear friend of mine...who exclaimed "Where the hell did that come from!?" after she sailed right over a new one nearby late one night.
There used to be a great youtube channel of roundabout 'abusers' in Milwaukee, many of whom got good air, but it seems to have disappeared recently.

 

[snakedctr]

 

[snakedctr]