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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 190 points 3 months ago (9 children)
[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 80 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So like Cities Skylines but for real.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 66 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone's just sitting.

Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.

I do think of that mentality "But I don't want to go right, I want to go straight, I'm not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I'm waiting here until that happens" as an American thing, but I guess we don't have a monopoly on it.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

That too was bothering me a lot.

[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

“But it’s not my favorite way! I can’t go that way!”

I’ll take exits to who knows where to avoid traffic even if sitting in it is technically faster. Every time the highway gets shut down for a snow-related accident, my adventure gene lights up and we go exploring the back country. It’s never fun, but it beats sitting in traffic, and it’s never as bad as the time I got stuck on the highway in a blizzard and was stuck at 15mph for a normally 2-hour-70-mph drive that took me some 5-7 hrs to complete.. the next morning I took a perfect imprint of my license plate off the ice covering my car. Kept that in my freezer in a box for a couple years until sublimation made it unreadable.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

They had to pose for the picture of course

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 3 points 3 months ago

The picture is of American drivers, though.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Especially if you have that mod that disables traffic despawning, along with that realistic building population mod. Build one skyscraper without having a robust public transit system already in place, and it'll bring your city to its knees.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wow, it's like a giant sliding block puzzle.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

At some point, it's literally that. You have to kick everyone out of their cars and start loading the cars up on wheel dollies, then slide them out sideways. Or bring in a forklift to do the same.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You know at some point the cars that can turn right will and the cars to their left will be able to turn right and so on. Seems like this will eventually unfuck itself.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But then the cars that turn will be giving in!?! They will be late for the thing they're doing!

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Plus, turning right isn't what THEY want to do! Everyone else should turn right, clearly.

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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Do they not have a "don't block the box" type of law there? Being within the intersection like that seems crazy to me

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 25 points 3 months ago

Sometimes you just need to be the reason for the safety meeting

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Check out the whole line of cars that could be getting through right-to-left, but there are two jerkwads who insist on not moving their car a foot or two apart to open up the little space and let them proceed.

Turns out the real America was in the hearts of the world this entire time

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

There are modern roundabouts and then there are rotary intersections. Modern roundabouts have traffic entering the circle yield to traffic already within it, while rotary intersections have traffic within the circle yield to traffic entering. That makes rotaries, but not modern roundabouts, susceptible to locking up like this.

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Oh buddy, traffic laws in Brazil are light suggestions not really enforced. Red lights? Just drive through, don't stop. Roundabout? Just drive straight through they're just painted circles on the road, silly. One way street? Who's gonna stop me? Roads usually flow like you see in SE Asia where its like a flowing stream of motorcycles, except there's a lot more VW Gol's and Fiat Uno's. Even the Civil and Military police don't give a shit and drive like everyone else. Just don't get caught speeding on a speed camera or you will get a ticket for going .1 KPH over the limit.

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Hey, I've played this one

[–] socsa@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago

Damn, like 100 cars sharing a single IQ point.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Are they still there to this day?

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 106 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hes the Swedish chef tho, not the Norwegian chef.

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Madu@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

None of those "odd" letters are Swedish. I don't care about it being a meme, could put at least some effort into it and make it actually funny.

[–] Electricblush@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Funny enough in the context, the ø is the Norwegian ö... So its layers of confusion :D

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[–] negativenull@piefed.world 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Almost this exact picture was used to explain "Deadlocks" in one of my early computer science classes in college.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Solution is simple. Plant the busses in place as a permanent memorial to the passengers.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I propose the busses fight and eat each other until only the strongest bus remains.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

Survival of the fitness.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

The growth of a bus tree would also help boost the local economy.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Dental plan!

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This happens in nature as well. Ants, antelope, and many other unintelligent animals get stuck in a "death spiral" and die of exhaustion.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I enjoy how casually you insulted these animals as "unintelligent" after we've established that humans do the same. I guess, you never said that humans weren't unintelligent, though...

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

As the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tells us, humans are the third most intelligent species on Earth

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the people who designed that town don't seem to understand that rectangles don't fit into a circle

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)
[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 19 points 3 months ago

That's right, it goes in the square hole.

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (8 children)
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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Factorio flashback intensifies.

[–] Sv443@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

A world without chain signals is not one I want to live in

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

The civil-service centipede.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Imagine driver honked.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Omg.... Is that a ..... Snakeybus reference???

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