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I've definitely heard that they're safer, but this just seems to indicate that the crashes aren't as bad. Are there also fewer crashes?
Oh... ok. Not dying is a perk, but I'm sure everyone will be super stoked to be in more accidents that are right around the cost of their insurance deductible.
It often feels harder to drive defensively in a roundabout (especially multi-lane roundabouts) when I need to look over my left shoulder to make sure it's clear to merge while also looking to my right to make sure that the guy in the lane next to me or the other guy getting on at the next entrance know to yield to me. In a traditional intersection, all "conflict points" that the article mentions are in front of you as you enter the intersection.
Roundabouts are deathtraps. The reason they "work" is that they're so obviously deathtraps that even blithering idiots realize it and slow the fuck down.
"Work" is also in quotes because their throughput is so much less than a proper intersection. Roundabouts put zero effort into preventing starvation of a particular route.
Id love to see you provide some sources backing up your statements…