Chinese Traffic

from the picture the buses are blocking the way out of roundabout... they should installed traffic lights

in the US we dont use roundabouts.. not in the southwest

i would hate to be a policeman directing traffic there

ooh, pretty! i can almost see it swirling on the screen.

in reality it's probably a soul-sucking, lane-hogging, stop-and-go (around again, damn!) nightmare.

but from afar, lovely.

Lasse, it's because everyone is thinking "if I leave room for the people on the roundabout to get off at the exit after my entry point, then people on the roundabout not exiting there will take my 'place' on the roundabout and there will be no room for me so I should enter now, even if I will block the exit."

I've seen it happen at more than just roundabouts - but on roundabouts it's doubly stupid to think that way. When you're driving a bus, as are many of the drivers blocking the upper two exits, it may even be triple.

Why is everyone getting ON the roundabout and almost noone getting off? The exit roads are almost empty?

Ah, and this also reminds me of the popular YouTube clip of India Driving.