What are roundabouts? The safety benefits of these circular intersections

Re:What are roundabouts? The safety benefits of these circul... by saiya-jin on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:56AM (#38023643)

A person more stressed has less mental capacity for everything else including pedestrians, why the heck do I have to explain this to adults? Stress leads to mistakes, every single time, in any activity. Whole sports and strategies are based solely on making competitor more stressed to induce mistakes and lose.

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Re:What are roundabouts? The safety benefits of these circul... by HPsquared on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:33AM (#38023830)

There's a sweet spot. "Eustress"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustress

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Re:What are roundabouts? The safety benefits of these circul... by mcv on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:27AM (#38023806)

And yet they're safer. All data so far seems to show that turbo roundabouts are very safe.

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Re:What are roundabouts? The safety benefits of these circul... by CalRobert on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:37AM (#38024228)

You might find https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html an interesting read.

And there's ample research showing that drivers respond to low-stress designs by going faster and not paying as much attention to things on the periphery. https://grist.org/cities/heres-why-narrower-streets-are-safe... or the illustration at https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/e0/dd/e2e0dd89a67fe1df1e6d... are useful.

Would you be so kind as to explain to me your thinking to the contrary, ideally with sources?

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