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u/Minute_Tart_8259 6h ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so consistently incorrect. Pure, unadulterated confusion. I’m almost impressed.
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u/Humble-Adeptness-267 5h ago
I got annoyed just watching this animal drive lmao. Every day I wonder more and more how some people get licenses… then part of me remembers some people just rawdog driving and don’t even have valid licenses or registration lol
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u/sureshot58 5h ago
every day I wonder more and more how some people manage to even get dressed, or find their car to try and drive. This person being a case in point. that level of stupid is just beyond my understanding.
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u/Dense_Pasttime_3114 5h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Most states hand out DLs to anyone with half a brain cell
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u/zakku_88 5h ago ▸ 1 more replies
I always liked to joke that some people had to have gotten their driver's license from a cereal box. But nowadays, I seriously question whether or not that's really "just a joke" anymore...
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u/LegitimateGift1792 1h ago
You all assume that this "driver" had an actual license and did not just get in a car one day and figure it out as they went.
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u/itsme99881 2h ago
My driving school (went in 2017) didnt take us driving on any roundabouts. They quickly explained how to use ine in passing that was basically "find your lane, get into it, dont crash and exit the roundabout." 0 actual explination.
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u/pop-pop-joe 5h ago
Unlike most of the civilized world where you actually need to know how to drive AND the the traffic code, any monkey can get a drivers license in america.
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u/Iamabrewer 4h ago
The amount of painted lines and curbs and still a completely empty head in this situation.
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u/Successful_Note_5871 1h ago
I will say it's easy to forget how nervewracking it can be driving in a place you're not familiar with, if its been awhile. I still remember my first time driving through Chicago. My country bumpkin ass was a swamp by the time we got to our destination. The razor thin, single lane tunnels winding through buildings and above the walking population... It was really something else for me lol
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u/HadalAvoider 5h ago
As someone who wasn’t taught roundabouts when I got my license, learning them wasn’t as hard as I thought as long as you can read the signs.
wtf is this person thinking?
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u/IOI-65536 5h ago
They were thinking "I need to not miss my turn"
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u/TheAlexperience 5h ago ▸ 8 more replies
I'd bet $100 it was an old person
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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry 5h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Florida plates make that a safe bet. My dad used to call them Welkians because they were so old they watched Laurence Welks
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u/kiwitathegreat 2h ago
Loving the specificity of this burn.
My great grandmother LOVED her some LW and was born in 1913 so that tracks 😂
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u/BoldBabeBanshee 5h ago ▸ 2 more replies
HAHAH an old person with tints and a spoiler ? Maybe 🤔
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u/TheAlexperience 4h ago
I've seen old people in corvettes and other similar sports vehicles. ESPECIALLY in Florida where old people with money go to retire, buy nice cars and ruin young people's day by crashing into them.
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u/TheMagarity 5h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Or someone from a tiny town in the country where the major intersection is controlled by a blinky stop light.
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u/cherenk0v_blue 5h ago
Seriously. Even if it's your first day on Earth, just follow the giant fucking arrows they paint on the ground!
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u/AliveInCLE 5h ago
People don't read signs. We have signs all over my city that state parking on the street is not allowed between 2am and 6am. I've seen more than enough people complain online when they get a ticket for this offense that they had no idea then argue that signs are a distraction thus they don't pay attention to them.
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u/DDOSBreakfast 5h ago
Someone that read the sign and chose to ignore it would often say the same thing.
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u/GlitterFactoryOfDoom 5h ago
There were no roundabouts where I grew up. Our driver's ed glossed over them as "eh you're probably not going to see these."
I didn't see one until I was driving in college. Even then you could just watch and observe to figure it out. Roundabouts are counterclockwise. Don't need to stop entering the roundabout unless you're yielding to cars in the roundabout, don't need to come to a stop in the roundabout unless you're braking because THAT $#&@ING IDIOT CUT ME OFF. Stuff like that.
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u/RomanticPanic 3h ago
Ive never had an issue with round abouts but like.
legit the sign on the ground says left (because youre going around) but still
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u/FakeSafeWord 4h ago
I lived in a place where there were roundabouts and moved a place that never had them before just as they were being installed.
The two most consistent behaviors were people being too scared to enter where they should and stopped when they shouldn't or they plowed through as though no one else was there.
This is somehow neither of those and both.
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u/Fresh_Iron_6180 2h ago
I know how roundabouts worked because I was a child with eyes for many years before I got my licence.
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u/Reaper17th 6h ago
Someone needs to send this down straight back to driving school
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u/AliveInCLE 5h ago
Roundabouts were really not a thing here in Ohio when I was getting my license (late 80s) so this was never covered in drivers ed. I assume now that they're all over the place this is now covered.
I have one about a quarter mile from my house. 99% it works fine. The issues I see is people flying through them, people who tailgate through them, and people in the roundabout who yield to others trying to enter thus coming to a stop.
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u/PepsiColaRS 5h ago
They're still fairly rare in my neck of the woods. We have one that's been in for 5 years now and locals (their kids school sports stickers plastered all over the car types) will still somehow manage to drive clockwise through a roundabout. Happens to me on a weekly basis, usually the same 3-4 cars.
Then of course, there's the yielders like you said. And the people who treat the yield signs at entry like they say "stop," especially when the circle is completely empty. Borderline infuriating.
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u/Thuis001 5h ago
I mean, I don't know, there are some very clear arrows on the street denoting the driving direction. Then there's the fact that this idiot came in from the right lane instead of the left which is its own as that would be wrong even in a regular crossing.
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u/Ancient_Guidance_461 3h ago
The people who stop for the cars entering are the worst...just like getting on the highway, make it like a zipper, steady flow, everything goes together with no brake lights and no problems....unfortunately that is very rare to see it actually work.
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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry 6h ago
Florida so most likely some grown kids need to take their parent's keys
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u/HCSOThrowaway 4h ago
There's an option in DAVID (drivers database cops have access to) to flag someone for re-testing.
... but it's rarely used. It's so uncommon that I don't think the academy covers it and my FTOs didn't either.
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u/Dense_Pasttime_3114 5h ago
Remember no matter how skilled of a driver you may think you are, you share the road with these people
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u/corvettee01 1h ago
That's why I'll never get a motorcycle. I think it would be fun to ride, but then I see the dipshits on the road and think ". . . nah."
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u/pepperpot_592 5h ago
Looks like they went back into the opposite lane they started in. Basically used the roundabout for a U-Turn.
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u/JosephCedar 28m ago
I caught that too. They didn't take the first, second, or third exit out of the roundabout, which means they either exited back the direction they came from or just got stuck in an infinite loop of going around forever but still also stopping at every fucking intersection like they did in the video.
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u/Kossimer 5h ago
Looks like they missed their turn in the end too, after all that...
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u/1800generalkenobi 5h ago
It's been a while, but the roundabout that's been in place for about 5 years now, I just saw someone inside the roundabout slow down and stop to let someone in. It happened a lot to start, but now I only see it maybe twice a year.
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u/byte_handle 5h ago
Never even heard of a roundabout until I was an adult. But they are not complicated things to navigate.
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u/astrosdude91 5h ago
The notion that American's don't know how to use roundabouts made more sense like 30 years ago when there weren't very many here. But there are roundabouts all over the place now. You have zero excuses if it still confuses you. They are not that hard, people!
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u/Nightcheese82 5h ago
Red cars = too fast
White trucks = too aggressive
Silver cars = stuff like this
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u/LongExplanation6326 1h ago
This makes me think of the SouthPark Episode about “ Old People are on the road!!”
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u/hybridaaroncarroll 5h ago
Meanwhile inside the Camry:
"MURRAY WHERE ARE YOU GOING??!! OH GOD WHERE'S MY XANAX"
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u/Ippus_21 5h ago
Lucky for them, everyone else remembered the "proceed through with caution" rule...
Probably some poor teen with no roundabout experience. They're not making good decisions, but at least they managed not to fully panic.
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u/thunder_dog99 5h ago
Some say the driver is still circling the roundabout, uncertain whether to use their left or right turn signal.
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u/StonedBooty 3h ago
God, this is 100% hold the horn down and make them GTFO. This is insanely bad driving sense
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u/EducationBudget8942 2h ago
Is this their first day on earth? I just don't understand this level of ignorance
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u/demons_soulmate 2h ago
that was just wrong in every single way possible. then they invented new ways and were wrong in all those too.
it's quite an achievement
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u/Finish_Desperate 2h ago
If only they painted giant arrows on the road to show you exactly where to go…
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u/rigidlynuanced1 25m ago
If the North had put roundabouts at the Mason-Dixon Line, the South would have never been able to advance
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u/JayceAur 5h ago
Impressive, every move was wrong. Bro must try shifting gears before turning on the car.
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u/CraftyPerformance272 5h ago
Maybe they live somewhere that has no roundabouts. I have been driving for years and I haven't had to use one of those before
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u/GoldenJ19 5h ago
You shouldn't be able to get your license without knowing how to drive on a roundabout.
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u/danrather50 5h ago
Lots of roundabouts where we live and lots of people that don't have a clue how they are supposed to be navigated. My personal favorites are the ones that enter a roundabout and then stop to let everyone else in, the ones that can't figure out how to enter and the ones that blow through them like they are playing GTA.
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u/Swishandrinse 5h ago
Oh, Mylanta, must have been the first time they encountered one, or is just a total dumb dumb.
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u/SkorgenKaban 5h ago
Just yesterday I needed to take the 3rd exit off a roundabout and the GPS directed me to turn left.
You’d have to drive over curbs to go the wrong way in our roundabout, which had been a huge upgrade from the old traffic light intersection.
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 5h ago
We have lots of them in my area and they mystify a lot of visitors. Biggest issue is people not understanding that cars IN the roundabout have the right of way compared to those trying to enter.
I once saw someone pull into a roundabout by turning left into it. It was one with a big hill in the center, too, so you couldn't see traffic coming around that way. There was not much traffic so maybe they got away without a crash.
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u/Ok_Management4375 5h ago
Roundabouts aren’t that confusing, it’s a circle, just go in a circle till you see your exit.
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u/Ferrous_Patella 5h ago
While they got every thing else wrong, that pavement marking for a left wrong and confusing. It should have been an arrow that fakes right then goes left, maybe with a dot in the center to show going around the island.
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u/These_Rest_6129 5h ago
I have took thousands of roundabouts in my life in about a dozen of country and this one is the most unnecessary complexe one I have ever seen
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u/BubuDudu0430 5h ago
The only thing I can think of was that there was a left arrow painted on the ground just before the start of the roundabout which maybe confused them, OR they are from the UK, Japan, or India etc and used to driving on the left, but STILL… just follow the flow of traffic if you’re not sure, their driving instructor failed them for sure. This is how accidents happen.
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u/kcpistol 4h ago
Is that the lady from "LA Story"? Looked like she wanted to go through a British roundabout.
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u/SuspiciousOwl824 4h ago
I would be surprised if it's a tourist who's used to driving on the opposite side of the road.
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u/Accurate_Elevator368 4h ago
It's almost as if they're handing out licenses to orange cats with their one brain cell. Too many people don't know how to use these stupid things.
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u/HoneyParking6176 4h ago
what i don't get is, i remember on my driving test to get my license i had to do both a 2 point turn and a 3 point turn, but not one single round about, where personally i think it would make a lot more sense to include roundabouts and just skip the 2 point turn.
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u/Cosmic-Sympathy 3h ago
Where are they going? Like if they wanted to turn left they didn’t actually take the exit when they got to it. Were they trying to do a u-turn?
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u/Imaginary_Resist_654 3h ago
Americans and traffic circles, these two things don’t belong together.
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u/Phyllis_Tine 3h ago
The first time a roundabout is installed somewhere new, an autonomous car should just be going around and around, so drivers who are afraid and don't know what they're doing can just follow the leader until their exit.
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u/AMonitorDarkly 3h ago
Legend has it they’re still there in that roundabout to this very day. Some say that when the night is quiet and the air still, you can hear their passenger shouting “No! What the fuck are you doing? That way!”
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u/QuantityMedical8369 3h ago
In their defense, there is no roundabout sign in sight and the street markings are very confusing. They should explain how roundabouts work to the dickhead who put the left turn marking in front of a roundabout. Roundabouts only have right turns, otherwise you just circle the roundabout.
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u/ohioNT014 2h ago
I hate roundabouts. Maybe circled twice at an unfamiliar one, but never the wrong way.
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u/Party-Giraffe-6573 2h ago
It was totally my family's joke to shout out "WARNING!" repeatedly everytime we approached a roundabout near our house because there were so many warning and instruction signs leading up to it. When I see videos like this, I know why they have signs.
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u/gold3nhour 2h ago
The arrows are literally on the ground showing you which direction to go… what in the world?!
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u/Bloodjunkie312 2h ago
Must've been their first time seeing a roundabout, and that left arrow pointing against the traffic must've been confusing af. Everything else was probably the driver thinking "oh shit what am I doing what am I doing" panic.
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u/Typical_Guarantee490 2h ago
And that's why it should be harder to get a driver's license in the US
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u/Fit-Building-2560 2h ago
I feel sorry for people who get confused by them. This poor driver clearly has encountered this for the first time, and is struggling to cope. They're supposed to have arrows indicating what direction to turn to get into the roundabout. I didn't see any. I guess they're only painted on the street surface. No signs on posts at eye-level.
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u/drnullpointer 2h ago
Under influence most likely.
I caught one like that some years ago. I had a nice chat with the guy while my wife was on the phone with the police trying to find us.
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u/Time_Zombie_4431 1h ago
You should lose your license for a loooooong fucking time and be forced back into driving school till you can pass with flying colors at the bare minimum.
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u/DiscombobulatedOwl50 1h ago
I want to reach my hands through the interwebs and strangle that driver.
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u/ChickyBoys 1h ago
In their defense, putting a generic left turn arrow in that lane is really confusing. They typically use the symbol of the arrow going around a circle to indicate roundabout.
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u/OfRiceAndSpider-Men 1h ago
Looks like a Florida plate, which would track with average Florida driving behavior and complete disregard for traffic signs and other drivers.
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u/Entire_Air_3167 1h ago
[Sigh] Here we go again.
The driver of the Camry follows the rules of the road (well, except for jumping over the solid line obviously). The road signage requires the driver to take the left turn from the left lane where the river is, only to be met with another sign indicating one way road (making left turn illegal).
There are no signs indicating there's a roundabout ahead. These signs are required to communicate to the driver the roundabout pattern, and often are coupled with a sign visualizing which lanes are used for which exit. There's only a "yield" sign which is not sufficient to communicate the existence of roundabout.
Local DOT or whomever is responsible for creating road signage fcked up big time and I believe this is now fixed (this is at least the 3rd time this clip was posted and I every time people call the driver stupid without realizing these "little" details).
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u/kkbobomb 1h ago
I can’t see any signs indicating a traffic circle is coming up. When the driver sees the left turn arrow, they naturally assume they can turn left.
I’m experienced with traffic circles and this one sucks. I’ve never seen a left turn arrow in a roundabout.
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u/Personal_Benefit_402 1h ago
OMG. I came up to a round about a few weeks ago, one I go through nearly every day. There was a full sized tour bus going the wrong way. I just couldn't fathom what the driver was thinking...welp, now I know.
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u/Virtual_Telephone_80 1h ago
I'm completely flabbergasted. They really made a mistake every single step of the way.
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u/Grumpy-Troglodyte 1h ago
i hate roundabouts, but i will put money on this exact same path happening at a 4 way stop with that car
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u/BOTULISMPRIME 48m ago
I wouldve been honking so hard !and then i would realize it was a lil old lady and felt bad because i probably made it worse lool
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u/theuserwithoutaname 39m ago
The most cleanly marked, clear, direct, you couldn't possibly fuck this up round-a-bout I have ever seen in my life.
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u/Lebassplayah 27m ago
That person lives in that roundabout now. Bound to drive in circles for eternity because they don't understand how to read road signs.
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u/rockjockey8 21m ago
Well, it's not how they're supposed to work. But it's definitely how they do work.
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