Like… is there any law against it?
So you’re texting while driving, uh?
We should all report you, but we’re too curious to know the source of perpetual motion that’s been powering you since May!
What do you mean perpetual motion? You guys don’t hire other drivers to fuel you while on the roundabout like they fuel planes while flying? I thought everybody had one of those in case they accidentaly entered a roundabout.
- Written from a roundabout I’ve been circling since September.
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
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
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.
The Motorway InterLane Fuelling system is an invention ahead of its time.
BMW did it: Video link
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.
How is it obstructing traffic if the flow of traffic is never interrupted?
Depending on the definition, you’re not obscuring traffic if you’re driving 60kmh in the fastlane either, or if only you manage to get over the green light because of your tardiness, as traffic is still flowing, just very, very slow.
Either way, you’ll be slowing down traffic and get in the way of other drivers, unless you are the only person on the road.
The point of a roundabout is specifically that one must not stop, that is their design. A circle of perpetual motion. Certainly stopping in a roundabout would qualify as obstruction. I do not see how, even on a crowded day, making more than two passes in a roundabout while remaining in motion qualifies as “obstruction.”
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.
