Florida. The Sunshine State is Florida for those who don’t know, don’t care, or hate it when authors use nicknames for some proper nouns and actual names for other things in the same category.
It’s petty, I know, but just use the words we all know for fuck’s sake.
Edit: I’m not calling out the OP (thanks for sharing this!), these words that bother me appear in the text of the study.
Yeah I was guessing California…
Nah, we’re the Golden State.
Naturally, since their best known economic powerhouses are Silicon Valley and the Silver Screen.
Named after the gold rush. (In case you weren’t just being sarcastic.)
There have been other gold rushes in other states but the California Gold Rush that started in 1849 was the biggest.
Kinda expected Texas, but that works too
They’re the Lone Star state, since they’re the only state with a standing legal option to split into five separate states whenever they want.
Lots of logical state nicknames out there.
Its cause they think they were the only state that was independent from the US before becoming a part of it, ya know ignoring Vermont, California, and fucking Hawaii which wasnt just independent it was a whole ass kingdom and nation state.
I thought florida was, much to the amusement and dismay of people with brains in their heads, as the “education state” now?
also doesnt arizona get more sunshine than any other state or something like that?
State nicknames are stupid. IL is “land of lincoln” but he was born in kentucky 🤦♂️
Plotting anything by absolute numbers instead of per capita basically gives you a population map.
If that was true it would be California as the leader and not by nearly the magnitude shown.
And Arizona would be nowhere near second, as the 14th most populated state.
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Roundabouts are just too complicated for Floridians to grasp
To be fair, I hate full 2 lane roundabouts. The right lane should be for immediate turn-offs only. Luckily the roundabouts in my area are made so the right lane splits off and only go to the next turn-off.
Right lane for the first or second exits. Left lane for the second or third exit (or reverse direction). Works great, I used to drive through a big one on a highway and a little one in the main intersection in town all the time.
Oh, I fully understand. But if you getting on in the right lane going to the second exit, and some other car was ALREADY on in the second lane, there’s no way to know if you need to give right of way or if they’re about to continue to the next exit. Should I be breaking or not? Is this car about to veer in front of me?
It’s just much simpler if right lane was first exit only.
Traffic entering the roundabout yields to all traffic already in the roundabout.
I frequent a roundabout that bucks this rule, and it drives me nuts. Because the roundabout is part of a relatively major throughfare, people who are already in the circle need to yield to those who are entering from that one particular road. So as to not make the people on the major road slow down too much I guess?
It makes sense when you think about it, and It works OK if you’re familiar with the circle, but if you’ve never driven on it before and you miss the internal yield sign (or if you’re entering from the major road and don’t see the lack of yield sign), then you’re going to cause issues.
I’m talking about after you’re already in the roundabout. When the right lane’s first and second exit matches the left lane’s second and third exit and thr right lane doesn’t know if the left lane is exiting or not.
Yeah, that can be a bit tricky, but in my experience people use their signals and drive defensively to allow people to exit. And because entering traffic yields to both lanes, there aren’t so many cars in the roundabout at the same time that it becomes a problem.
Turn signals are meant to take care of that… Seems like your issue is with other drivers, not the roundabout itself.
Roundabouts weren’t taught or tested for in the US when people over 50 originally learned to drive. It’s not surprising they don’t know how to deal with them.
It’s an incredibly simple concept, though
I wasn’t taught about them in drivers ed either, but the first time I saw one it was quite clear what to do
Being confused once is fine but some people can’t learn.
Those roundabouts are causin’ all these tornaders! /s
It’s almost like just plopping them into places with people that have never even seen them isn’t a great idea. My city randomly has a couple in busy spots and it’s always a shitshow with people coming across them unexpectedly. They did nothing to prepare people for dealing with them they just built them in 🙄
Roundabouts are on the driving test, and people are expected to keep up with changes in local law. Do a tiny bit of due diligence and don’t blame the people building objectively safer intersections.
They are not in the driving test even now in my city lol. Even if they were, we renew our licenses every like 50 years it’s ridiculous. The four roundabouts placed randomly around town are legit just hazards because people don’t know wtf they’re doing
Talking about due diligence when you don’t even know where I’m from and couldn’t even possibly know this about every city 🙄
I think that you’ve that shown that a lot of people shouldn’t drive.
I think y’all have shown that you lack reading comprehension and desperately need to feel superior but ok. Honestly lemmy users are just redditors with a somehow bigger superiority complex
Guessing people too old to be driving + Florida Man
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“It takes two bad drivers to cause an accident.” The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald 1925
Don’t forget the squids on motorcycles that don’t have any twisties to ride on, so they are stuck on dangerous stroads
What if we, and hear me out here… Let it sink into the ocean like it’s been trying to do for generations now? 🤌🏼
I’ve never had a harder time making a left than in this stupid fucking state.
It’s because nobody understands that right turn on red means that you still have to stop and wait for painting traffic to clear before entering the intersection.
And blame it all on (insert northeastern state name here, preferably New York)
Actually no, it’s more the permanent residents that do that. The northeastern residents are far more likely to cause an accident while trying to merge because they have very different merge laws and think that traffic has to let them merge. And I think most of the Canadians follow the speed limit signs using km/h instead of mph.
Right on cue
Bullshit…I live here and the dumbass locals just turn the wheel and let Jesus handle it.
