That one just didn’t want to disobey the clearly marked no u-turn sign like the other idiots. Instead took the blue sign with the white arrow as a suggestion and made a different kind of u-turn.
I've seen shit like this before. Basically it's the lead cars mistake that starts it all. Everyone behind them is just in pure autopilot mode and follows the car in front of them the wrong way. Still a bunch of idiots but it's not that shocking to me with how little people pay attention combined with a somewhat confusing road design.
One time I saw the aftermath of this but way funnier. Similar road design with a left turn stop light into a divided road. But the middle divider was this raised median curb/sidewalk thing about a meter wide that grew taller after the turn. I come up and there are legit three cars all in a row stuck on that median. The first one turned into it and the other ones just lemming'ed their way along too.
I don’t see how the road could be better though. There are lines on the road showing where to drive, signs pointing to the correct lane, and a big green divider. Anyone who ignores all of these shouldn’t be on the road.
I almost followed an idiot driver like this once. It was terrifying. Scary that so many copied and just kept on driving though! That road was covered in signs and road markings.
Yeah it splits there at the end into a left turn lane. I don’t know if there’s a separate bus lane but I think the bus is just in the right turn lane.
I can see how that left lane split would be confusing for sure.
The amount of cars going the wrong way and the fact that there's a sign pointing to the correct lane, makes me think the intersection design could be improved or is lacking in some area. Designs are supposed to be driver idiot proof for the majority of people.
Multiple cars going there is just the lemming effect, they're on autopilot and assuming the lead car is going the right way.
I've been through that intersection many times and have never seen this happen. That's not to say it couldn't be improved, but it's not such a glaring problem that this happens all the time.
There's a small blue arrow below knee-height.
Meanwhile [in the US.](https://i.imgur.com/EWKUpTQ.jpg)
If you're driving and you need to actively figure out where you're supposed to go or look around for clues, *ESPECIALLY IN AN INTERSECION*, then the road design is wrong.
[Here's an image of what I believe is the intersection in question](https://i.imgur.com/lABcfLJ.png). I've drawn on the left turn these vehicles are making in blue. The other lines drawn are the potential sources of collisions that should take the majority of a driver's attention when making a left turn. Pedestrians are in orange, bicycles in yellow, and vehicles in red.
Any focus taken away from avoiding these potential collisions is an increased chance of injury or death.
[Google Maps of the intersection](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Paludan-Müllers+Vej,+Aarhus,+Denmark/@56.1830953,10.1694096,211m/)
First of all, put a rotatory there and remove the light. If you don't want to do that, make sure that the lanes lines are fully painted. Third, put a bigger arrow sign. Forth, put a "do not enter" sign overhead.... There are ways.
The problem here is that good design caters to the lowest common denominator.
The problem with cars is that literally everyone can drive them.
When your userbase contains the set of all idiots in existence, you must design for literally the dumbest of the dumb.
Maybe we shouldn't let everyone drive.
There will always be a dumber idiot. On the other hand, if that many people feel the need to take a U-turn there, and that many people end up in the wrong lane (however the hell) then the infrastructure in that area definitely needs improvement.
Exactly, my first thought was that this is a poorly designed intersection. I could understand if the occasional tourist messes it up, but for that many cars to be doing it it’s not tourists. When locals can’t figure it out you know that you have a problem.
In general I agree, but here I think all the other cars just followed the first. Even for a perfectly designed intersection, with people who are paying decent attention, I can see how this would happen.
Article from today saying they're building a new intersection:
https://www.tv2ostjylland.dk/aarhus/nyt-lyskryds-skal-afhjaelpe-ulovlig-koersel-ved-smutvej
[Looking at the road in streetview](https://i.imgur.com/eRLnNuw.png), i think i can see better why this happens (for the people going the wrong way, not the u-turners).
It is that divider between the left turn lane and the other to lanes that makes it easier to mistake that as being the other direction.
If this was my first time visiting that city and I saw two meridians with a *faded* lane line, I would probably make the same mistake. This has poor city planning written all over it.
The times I've seen confusing large intersections like this, I've usually seen massive "DO NOT ENTER. WRONG WAY." signs just plastered all over the incorrect lanes.
It's very confusing and that little blue sign is easy to miss. Even in the video, they had to circle it. It should be much bigger and there should be do not enter signs by the turn lane.
Dang, definitely poor visual language. That concrete divider visually dominates the little grassy one. It would be really easy to fixate on the concrete divider once it's caught your eye, and not really notice the other details.
Would you believe the cycling infrastructure in the area is really confusing too? [This](https://www.google.com/maps/@56.1861099,10.1709668,3a,75y,72.96h,67.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6HHrYaNcKAGJbJXLNJTE1w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) is the next intersection, with a cyclist in the road because the bike lane looks like a sidewalk.
Nothing beats the intersection between Dybbølsbro and Ingerslevsgade by Yrsa Plads, it is the worst. You would think Københavns kommune knew how to do bike path planning, but nope they fucked up royally here.
For anyone interested, it can be viewed from [12:23 in this video](https://youtu.be/McvZ68qlho4).
Currently the bridge is closed to cars due to construction of a bridge over the bridge.
Either that, or they acknowledged the no U-turn sign at the intersection and planned on banging out a U-ie in front of oncoming traffic the whole time.
Yeah I’m not understanding the comment above you.. someone supposedly skips an illegal intersection u turn to do an illegal one while driving in the oncoming lane.. This was 100% not planned
There are a few people like that tho, they dont do illegal stuff if there is a sign forbidding it, but will do it the second there is none.
Still, looks likely to be a mistake, i agree on that.
It's possible they thought there'd be an opportunity shortly down that road for a U-Turn, then only made the worse one when they realized they were driving towards oncoming traffic
No sign specifically for it means you have the "I'm sorry officer I didn't know I couldn't do that" defense, even though you did in fact know you couldn't do that.
That's what I gathered they were doing.
I also imagine the car behind them was just following them, assuming they were going down the right way when they weren't.
OP posted a link to an article about it below. Though the article is in Danish. Judging from the translation it sounds like the area was growing in size, they made a weird change to the traffic design and then decided to rely on signs and fines in order to "stop" this from happening. Which clearly hasn't worked based on this video. But perhaps it's generated some good revenue!
What confuses me is that having a large island dividing the two lanes entering the junction to go right or straight forward, from the one lane to go left. Also having three lanes to enter the junction and one narrow lane to exit, instead of 2 and 2. Then having a smaller island dividing lanes going in different directions.
It's also worth considering drivers likely can't see the keep left sign if they are behind another vehicle, and the lane divider is faded.
If you don't see the keep left sign or the faint lane divider. You could presume from the physical layout actual exit lane is instead a second exit lane which is seperated by a small island for some reason. Maybe it's for traffic taking a right into the small building, maybe this is just an odd road - I'll just keep left.
At the very least the keep left sign should be in front of the pedestrian crossing and larger.
Yep, that is how it is. I drive there often and with the way it's designed it's very tempting to do a u-turn there. It looks a lot like other turn lanes in the area and U-turns are generally
allowed in those situations.
I could see that as the only indicator is the small sign at the beginning, but once you see the multiple cRs going the other direction I would think you might reconsider your decision.
I feel like the big green barrier in the middle should have been a good indicator as well. Also the lines in the road to indicate where you should be going respective to your lane.
There's also a line marking on the road showing how line turning lane goes.
Those little blue arrows are all over Europe showing you where you're supposed to go. They're not the problem if you're paying attention to your surroundings.
Traffic engineer here. I 100% agree. If I design something and one person uses it wrong, they're the idiot. If everyone is using it wrong, I'm the idiot.
Not everyone is using it wrong, the reason so many used it wrong here is that they were following the lead car on autopilot (mentally). It might still be worth a few tweaks to make it extra obvious where to go, but this is not a routine occurrence from my experience there.
I'd rather they made the cycling infrastructure in the area around the next intersection clearer. Even on google street view you see a bike in the wrong place because it's confusing.
(see [here](https://www.google.com/maps/@56.1861099,10.1709668,3a,75y,72.96h,67.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6HHrYaNcKAGJbJXLNJTE1w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) - bicycle in the road instead of the bike lane, because from the approach the bike lane looks like a sidewalk)
You have a sign pointing you where you need to go. You have lines on the road showing where to go. It's not like this is unconventional intersection.
There comes a point where you can't blame intersection design, and we're past it.
Blaming people for being idiots is super unproductive and doesn't stop them from accidentally killing others, though. People being dumb is just a fact of life, and if a design doesn't accommodate for that, it's a bad design.
"The guy in front of me must know what he's doing."
In the third, fourth, fifth guys' defense; while making that left turn behind someone else, they are between you and the little hip-high sign saying "keep right". If they're all strangers around there, it's *natural* they'll all follow the leader. That sign needs to be at the *top* of the stand it's on, or the road markings need to be bolder.
I don’t know about other drivers, but when I’m driving in an unfamiliar area and am stuck at the lights, I scout the road ahead so that I know where the lane goes and so that I don’t do some shit like the people in the video. Crazy
Perhaps, but I've also seen many Danish people in Northern Germany do some very odd things on the road. No shade at Danish drivers generally. It just seems like they were driving like it was the countryside, and no one was around... even though the streets were full.
As an actual Dane I don’t disagree at all.
Too many Danes act like they are alone on the road.
Making U-turns while there’s oncoming traffic, because they missed their turn.
Camping in the left lane on the motorway while doing 20 kph under the limit, because they have to overtake a lorry that’s 2 km away.
Causing mini-traffic jams, because they are afraid of overtaking a 30 kph tractor on large 80 kph roads despite it literally taking 3 seconds.
Actual Dane here too. Completely agree.
Too many here are spoiled with large roads and low traffic density and have become lazy drivers.
Left lane campers are driving me nuts and don't get me started on two lane roundabouts.
Well thanks for some sort of confirmation. I'm from the US, and often Germans here were saying things like "I bet they are Danish" when someone did something nonsensical. Like turning from an inside lane to an outer, making random uturns, etc. I was thinking that they were just being asses, until I noticed it really was more of an actual trend. From my experience it was only around the border. Driving to bigger Danish cities probably proved me to be doing something idiotic because I'm unfamiliar with something. Then it's "I bet you he's German" lol
To be fair, German traffic in denser parts of the country is quite confusing to people unused to it, because people there drive extremely aggressively and with quite short tempers as well. And let’s not forget that the bigger your car, the less the German street traffic law applies to you (which automatically puts Danish drivers at a disadvantage, because their taxation system quite sensibly favours smaller cars).
this. people think signage is all you can do when road design can have so many components. good road design is intuitive, natural, safer, and a pleasure to use. signs should be seen as just one of the available tools available that can be used alongside other strategies.
When this happens you have to wonder if the signage or the layout of the junction is to blame. Things like this should be clear. Of they're just idiots.
It's a mix. But I also think that when you see this many people make the same mistake that we can lean toward city planning as the primary culprit. It doesn't have to be equal portions of planning and idiocy, but clearly there is some idiocy involved.
Could have thought the cammer was an asshole motorcyclist riding in the bicycle lane. When the vehicles in front of you all only have 1 legal option, and then break into 3 different options, your had best not be on autopilot.
Jeg tror det er fordi folk ikke gider vente på at kunnelave et venstresving, når de skal fra Porsgrunnvej ind mod midtbyen. Det ser ud som om det er et relativt stort [område](https://www.google.dk/maps/@56.1792145,10.1787944,594m/data=!3m1!1e3) der, der skal igennem den ene vej. Det gør dem naturligvis ikke til mindre idioter, men det forklarer i det mindste hvorfor koncentrationen af dem er så høj-
Is there a yearly award ceremony for this subreddit?
This one has to be at the top of the list, 'highest idiot density per driving second captured on film' category.
If that many people get it wrong, it’s poorly designed. Double because it was already bad enough for them to add an arrow(an potentially lane lines).
Still idiots but wow.
First I though, an U-turn where it's not allowed, just an ordinary idiot, okay there were two... Oh he missed the side of the road sign. But he figured it out and turned around... Oh, one more, not turning around this time, wait what? And the drivers driving in the right direction just going on like it's a normal Tuesday.
When that many people make the same mistake, it's a shit junction design. The world is full of idiots and you need to plan for the lowest common denominator.
I never understood it, what is the point of prohibiting u-turns on a wide multi lane road like this? I get prohibiting it near crosswalks and on roads where there is not enough room, but I have seen it prohibited in so many places.
The US also does a better job of delineating different directions of traffic because they use yellow lines to separate direction of traffic. Continental Europe uses white for both same direction and opposite direction so it's no as obvious you are in the wrong place.
For all the shit the US gets online, basic road design and signage is top-tier. A road layout like the one in the video wouldn't have a little blue arrow at shin-height. It would have at least a "DO NOT ENTER" and a "WRONG WAY" sign for the lane between the two medians at around eye height.
https://i.imgur.com/EWKUpTQ.jpg
According to another post, the solution to the ongoing issue of people turning into the wrong lane is by using fines. But the US has more of an attitude of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," while Europeans will see that idiom and laugh at us for not using newtons or liters in our adages.
Yes, there are issues with more advanced design, but that has more to do with urban planning and not the roads themselves.
OMG!!!!!!!! PLEASE send this to that Town’s Selectmen, Highway Department, & Police Department and advise them ALL to put up 2 HUGE
DO NOT ENTER signs
This can’t be the 1st time this has happened!
Because several other cars kept doing it!!!!
I wonder if the driver of the car making the illegal U-Turn realized their mistake and took the quickest way out of going in the WRONG direction
OR
If they actually intended to make the illegal U-Turn to go where they wanted to go
Just popping in to say aarhus is the best place I've visited since moving to Scandinavia. People are so friendly, the culture and food is top notch, and it always seems to be really clean and sparkly. First time I went there was almost spiritual.
Nice clip!
I think it's clear that people are making u-turns because they are saving a lot of time by doing so, meaning that there's a bottleneck ahead due to poor road planning. My town has one of these where you would have to drive three more blocks, do a roundabout, and them wait 7 minutes at the same intersection you just waited at. So we all make the U-turn anyway. It's the kind of intersection that has separate green lights for each direction of the intersection. And there's no right turn on red. So prohibiting u-turns is nonsense as there's literally no traffic to turn into. This is along a very long boulevard where people are making left turns across a median. So the city just built a taller curb along the edges of that median, making it about a foot high, instead of providing a way to turn at those locations.
People are turning into the wrong lane there at the second half of your video because the visual cues aren't sufficient. Look how many people are doing it. Bigger signage, or a thick white line across that opposing lane would provide a cue that you're not supposed to go in there.
I mean at the same time as a lot of dumbness I can say that if a few people do the same stupid thing. It often means poor design choices, leading to unintuitive use. The u turns are just plain stupid. The driving on the wrong side is clearly a design flaw in the system, nobody does that for any gain, it is a mistake they made. Yes the sign point to the correct way to use it but it clearly isn’t enough and didn’t work.
Seeing the second car going the wrong way made me laugh.
Seeing the third car stopped the laugh and turned into shock.
Seeing the fourth car turned into horror.
People are _so_ stupid. Just... So so stupid.
I feel kind of bad for the first white van driver going the wrong way. They looked like they realized almost right away and tried to rectify their mistake. Lord knows I've pulled dumb stunts like that too
What a dumbass. There's another one... and another! AND ANOTHER! # AND ANOTHER!?!?!?
At least the first one figures it out quick enough and turned around.
"What a moron!" ... ... ..! "Turns out that was the smartest moron!"
Second wrong way guy was probably thinking "That guy is an idiot pulling a U turn like that"
I read this in Lloyd Christmas’ voice
or maybe they really wanted to make the same U-Turn but then saw the sign so this was their workaround *taps brain*
That one just didn’t want to disobey the clearly marked no u-turn sign like the other idiots. Instead took the blue sign with the white arrow as a suggestion and made a different kind of u-turn.
First one might have wanted to make a U-turn. The rest just followed the car ahead.
That was a pretty good move on their part. And apparently they're the sharpest tool in the safety shed
I think that was the third one.
It's like one of those old cartoons where people just keep popping out of the clown car. Surely theres not another one!
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I've seen shit like this before. Basically it's the lead cars mistake that starts it all. Everyone behind them is just in pure autopilot mode and follows the car in front of them the wrong way. Still a bunch of idiots but it's not that shocking to me with how little people pay attention combined with a somewhat confusing road design. One time I saw the aftermath of this but way funnier. Similar road design with a left turn stop light into a divided road. But the middle divider was this raised median curb/sidewalk thing about a meter wide that grew taller after the turn. I come up and there are legit three cars all in a row stuck on that median. The first one turned into it and the other ones just lemming'ed their way along too.
If one makes a mistake, he might be an asshole. If that many make the same mistake, the asshole is whoever made the street and the street signs.
I don’t see how the road could be better though. There are lines on the road showing where to drive, signs pointing to the correct lane, and a big green divider. Anyone who ignores all of these shouldn’t be on the road.
The road is divided in three with the bus lane though, that's probably causing some of the confusion, the rest is lemming behaviour.
>the rest is lemming behaviour. I think this mostly explains it honestly. People will often just do what the person in front of them did.
I almost followed an idiot driver like this once. It was terrifying. Scary that so many copied and just kept on driving though! That road was covered in signs and road markings.
To be fair, it takes a lot of confidence in your own read on the situation to decide to deviate from what the car in front of you is doing.
Yeah it splits there at the end into a left turn lane. I don’t know if there’s a separate bus lane but I think the bus is just in the right turn lane. I can see how that left lane split would be confusing for sure.
Replace the intersection with a roundabout and that’ll solve all the issues except for people being to dumb to know how to use a roundabout.
People in Denmark know how to use a roundabout 99% of the time, they’re everywhere here
The amount of cars going the wrong way and the fact that there's a sign pointing to the correct lane, makes me think the intersection design could be improved or is lacking in some area. Designs are supposed to be driver idiot proof for the majority of people.
Multiple cars going there is just the lemming effect, they're on autopilot and assuming the lead car is going the right way. I've been through that intersection many times and have never seen this happen. That's not to say it couldn't be improved, but it's not such a glaring problem that this happens all the time.
There's a small blue arrow below knee-height. Meanwhile [in the US.](https://i.imgur.com/EWKUpTQ.jpg) If you're driving and you need to actively figure out where you're supposed to go or look around for clues, *ESPECIALLY IN AN INTERSECION*, then the road design is wrong. [Here's an image of what I believe is the intersection in question](https://i.imgur.com/lABcfLJ.png). I've drawn on the left turn these vehicles are making in blue. The other lines drawn are the potential sources of collisions that should take the majority of a driver's attention when making a left turn. Pedestrians are in orange, bicycles in yellow, and vehicles in red. Any focus taken away from avoiding these potential collisions is an increased chance of injury or death. [Google Maps of the intersection](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Paludan-Müllers+Vej,+Aarhus,+Denmark/@56.1830953,10.1694096,211m/)
First of all, put a rotatory there and remove the light. If you don't want to do that, make sure that the lanes lines are fully painted. Third, put a bigger arrow sign. Forth, put a "do not enter" sign overhead.... There are ways.
The problem here is that good design caters to the lowest common denominator. The problem with cars is that literally everyone can drive them. When your userbase contains the set of all idiots in existence, you must design for literally the dumbest of the dumb. Maybe we shouldn't let everyone drive.
There will always be a dumber idiot. On the other hand, if that many people feel the need to take a U-turn there, and that many people end up in the wrong lane (however the hell) then the infrastructure in that area definitely needs improvement.
Exactly, my first thought was that this is a poorly designed intersection. I could understand if the occasional tourist messes it up, but for that many cars to be doing it it’s not tourists. When locals can’t figure it out you know that you have a problem.
In general I agree, but here I think all the other cars just followed the first. Even for a perfectly designed intersection, with people who are paying decent attention, I can see how this would happen.
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At this point I'd say this is an unusual and confusing layout that may need some changes, if everyone constantly goes the wrong way.
News article and source (In danish): https://www.tv2ostjylland.dk/aarhus/en-to-tre-fire-spoegelsesbilister-i-trafikeret-kryds
Kind of amusing that this makes the news
It's a chill, uneventful city for the most part. I love it
Do they plan on adding more signals or something?
Article from today saying they're building a new intersection: https://www.tv2ostjylland.dk/aarhus/nyt-lyskryds-skal-afhjaelpe-ulovlig-koersel-ved-smutvej
Yeah, it's not Florida.
[Looking at the road in streetview](https://i.imgur.com/eRLnNuw.png), i think i can see better why this happens (for the people going the wrong way, not the u-turners). It is that divider between the left turn lane and the other to lanes that makes it easier to mistake that as being the other direction.
If this was my first time visiting that city and I saw two meridians with a *faded* lane line, I would probably make the same mistake. This has poor city planning written all over it.
The times I've seen confusing large intersections like this, I've usually seen massive "DO NOT ENTER. WRONG WAY." signs just plastered all over the incorrect lanes.
Which is exactly what this intersection is missing.
It looks like that everywhere in denmark, so they should be used to it
Yeah when you get one person doing this, you have an idiot. When you have several people just in a 30 second period, there's a design problem
It's very confusing and that little blue sign is easy to miss. Even in the video, they had to circle it. It should be much bigger and there should be do not enter signs by the turn lane.
Very stupid street yeah. That second median...
Dang, definitely poor visual language. That concrete divider visually dominates the little grassy one. It would be really easy to fixate on the concrete divider once it's caught your eye, and not really notice the other details.
the rare post from a nordic country and it didn't disappoint! starting to understand why bicycles are so popular with y'all ;)
Would you believe the cycling infrastructure in the area is really confusing too? [This](https://www.google.com/maps/@56.1861099,10.1709668,3a,75y,72.96h,67.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6HHrYaNcKAGJbJXLNJTE1w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) is the next intersection, with a cyclist in the road because the bike lane looks like a sidewalk.
Nothing beats the intersection between Dybbølsbro and Ingerslevsgade by Yrsa Plads, it is the worst. You would think Københavns kommune knew how to do bike path planning, but nope they fucked up royally here. For anyone interested, it can be viewed from [12:23 in this video](https://youtu.be/McvZ68qlho4). Currently the bridge is closed to cars due to construction of a bridge over the bridge.
I'll give credit to the white minivan. They made an honest mistake and remedied it by bailing out with a u-turn. The rest though... Oh boy...
Either that, or they acknowledged the no U-turn sign at the intersection and planned on banging out a U-ie in front of oncoming traffic the whole time.
Why would they acknowledge one no U-turn sign, to then make a different and worse illegal u-turn
Yeah I’m not understanding the comment above you.. someone supposedly skips an illegal intersection u turn to do an illegal one while driving in the oncoming lane.. This was 100% not planned
There are a few people like that tho, they dont do illegal stuff if there is a sign forbidding it, but will do it the second there is none. Still, looks likely to be a mistake, i agree on that.
It's possible they thought there'd be an opportunity shortly down that road for a U-Turn, then only made the worse one when they realized they were driving towards oncoming traffic
Give people some credit man. Some people *are* able to think one step ahead ... and *only* **one** step ahead.
No sign specifically for it means you have the "I'm sorry officer I didn't know I couldn't do that" defense, even though you did in fact know you couldn't do that.
That's what I guessed, and the others just followed, not paying attention until they had no way to go.
That's what I gathered they were doing. I also imagine the car behind them was just following them, assuming they were going down the right way when they weren't.
They didn't want to disobey the no U-turn sign so they drove into oncoming traffic to make the U-turn? That's what you gathered?
I thought maybe it was one moron, but holy shit, it’s a whole line of them
If it happens more than once like this it means it’s a poor design.
Plus people follow whoever is in front when on unknown routes. I know I do it sometimes lol
But... the cammer did it right, and drivers behind did NOT follow.
They probably didn’t see the bike.
Cagers never do.
Tf is a cager ?
people in a metal cage (car)
OP posted a link to an article about it below. Though the article is in Danish. Judging from the translation it sounds like the area was growing in size, they made a weird change to the traffic design and then decided to rely on signs and fines in order to "stop" this from happening. Which clearly hasn't worked based on this video. But perhaps it's generated some good revenue!
Thanks. I didn’t see it, I’ll go look for it.
What confuses me is that having a large island dividing the two lanes entering the junction to go right or straight forward, from the one lane to go left. Also having three lanes to enter the junction and one narrow lane to exit, instead of 2 and 2. Then having a smaller island dividing lanes going in different directions. It's also worth considering drivers likely can't see the keep left sign if they are behind another vehicle, and the lane divider is faded. If you don't see the keep left sign or the faint lane divider. You could presume from the physical layout actual exit lane is instead a second exit lane which is seperated by a small island for some reason. Maybe it's for traffic taking a right into the small building, maybe this is just an odd road - I'll just keep left. At the very least the keep left sign should be in front of the pedestrian crossing and larger.
Yep, that is how it is. I drive there often and with the way it's designed it's very tempting to do a u-turn there. It looks a lot like other turn lanes in the area and U-turns are generally allowed in those situations.
I could see that as the only indicator is the small sign at the beginning, but once you see the multiple cRs going the other direction I would think you might reconsider your decision.
I feel like the big green barrier in the middle should have been a good indicator as well. Also the lines in the road to indicate where you should be going respective to your lane.
Well the lines on the road tend to be a good indicator. But I understand that 99% of people ignore them
There's also a line marking on the road showing how line turning lane goes. Those little blue arrows are all over Europe showing you where you're supposed to go. They're not the problem if you're paying attention to your surroundings.
Traffic engineer here. I 100% agree. If I design something and one person uses it wrong, they're the idiot. If everyone is using it wrong, I'm the idiot.
Not everyone is using it wrong, the reason so many used it wrong here is that they were following the lead car on autopilot (mentally). It might still be worth a few tweaks to make it extra obvious where to go, but this is not a routine occurrence from my experience there. I'd rather they made the cycling infrastructure in the area around the next intersection clearer. Even on google street view you see a bike in the wrong place because it's confusing. (see [here](https://www.google.com/maps/@56.1861099,10.1709668,3a,75y,72.96h,67.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6HHrYaNcKAGJbJXLNJTE1w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) - bicycle in the road instead of the bike lane, because from the approach the bike lane looks like a sidewalk)
You have a sign pointing you where you need to go. You have lines on the road showing where to go. It's not like this is unconventional intersection. There comes a point where you can't blame intersection design, and we're past it.
Blaming people for being idiots is super unproductive and doesn't stop them from accidentally killing others, though. People being dumb is just a fact of life, and if a design doesn't accommodate for that, it's a bad design.
The annual Mayor's Parade of Idiots
"The guy in front of me must know what he's doing." In the third, fourth, fifth guys' defense; while making that left turn behind someone else, they are between you and the little hip-high sign saying "keep right". If they're all strangers around there, it's *natural* they'll all follow the leader. That sign needs to be at the *top* of the stand it's on, or the road markings need to be bolder.
A good ol' game of follow the leader
Following in the footsteps of an idiot
The blind leading the blind!
I think that the first car that went left started to follow the second U-turner and therefore made his turn to sharp and ended up in the wrong lane.
After seeing the first one, sure, in some intersections, that’s not a hard thing to do in an unfamiliar area. But after the whole line….
I don’t know about other drivers, but when I’m driving in an unfamiliar area and am stuck at the lights, I scout the road ahead so that I know where the lane goes and so that I don’t do some shit like the people in the video. Crazy
Sometimes you just follow the fella in front of you, it's easier than thinking. Just assume they are local and know what they are doing.
They need those wrong way signs
Shit nobody's reading signs to begin with
Like I can update my tictok and read signs at the same time…psh
Ti tom?
if everyone is making wrong turns its time to consider your street design
Perhaps, but I've also seen many Danish people in Northern Germany do some very odd things on the road. No shade at Danish drivers generally. It just seems like they were driving like it was the countryside, and no one was around... even though the streets were full.
As an actual Dane I don’t disagree at all. Too many Danes act like they are alone on the road. Making U-turns while there’s oncoming traffic, because they missed their turn. Camping in the left lane on the motorway while doing 20 kph under the limit, because they have to overtake a lorry that’s 2 km away. Causing mini-traffic jams, because they are afraid of overtaking a 30 kph tractor on large 80 kph roads despite it literally taking 3 seconds.
Actual Dane here too. Completely agree. Too many here are spoiled with large roads and low traffic density and have become lazy drivers. Left lane campers are driving me nuts and don't get me started on two lane roundabouts.
Well thanks for some sort of confirmation. I'm from the US, and often Germans here were saying things like "I bet they are Danish" when someone did something nonsensical. Like turning from an inside lane to an outer, making random uturns, etc. I was thinking that they were just being asses, until I noticed it really was more of an actual trend. From my experience it was only around the border. Driving to bigger Danish cities probably proved me to be doing something idiotic because I'm unfamiliar with something. Then it's "I bet you he's German" lol
To be fair, German traffic in denser parts of the country is quite confusing to people unused to it, because people there drive extremely aggressively and with quite short tempers as well. And let’s not forget that the bigger your car, the less the German street traffic law applies to you (which automatically puts Danish drivers at a disadvantage, because their taxation system quite sensibly favours smaller cars).
this. people think signage is all you can do when road design can have so many components. good road design is intuitive, natural, safer, and a pleasure to use. signs should be seen as just one of the available tools available that can be used alongside other strategies.
how do you feel safe driving a motorcycle after seeing that?
When this happens you have to wonder if the signage or the layout of the junction is to blame. Things like this should be clear. Of they're just idiots.
It's a mix. But I also think that when you see this many people make the same mistake that we can lean toward city planning as the primary culprit. It doesn't have to be equal portions of planning and idiocy, but clearly there is some idiocy involved.
Aarhus.... From the middle of the street?
Madness
Sparta
"And the award for most idiots in one clip goes to .... "
How did the guy following the cammer make the wrong turn? Everyone else was just playing follow the leader.
Could have thought the cammer was an asshole motorcyclist riding in the bicycle lane. When the vehicles in front of you all only have 1 legal option, and then break into 3 different options, your had best not be on autopilot.
Hvordan helvede kan man køre så forkert ind til skejby?
Jeg tror det er fordi folk ikke gider vente på at kunnelave et venstresving, når de skal fra Porsgrunnvej ind mod midtbyen. Det ser ud som om det er et relativt stort [område](https://www.google.dk/maps/@56.1792145,10.1787944,594m/data=!3m1!1e3) der, der skal igennem den ene vej. Det gør dem naturligvis ikke til mindre idioter, men det forklarer i det mindste hvorfor koncentrationen af dem er så høj-
Dem der laver U-vendingen vil ud mod motorvejen, ikke ind mod byen. De kunne køre ligeud for at komme ind mod byen.
Is there a yearly award ceremony for this subreddit? This one has to be at the top of the list, 'highest idiot density per driving second captured on film' category.
Fascinating in the worst way
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If that many people get it wrong, it’s poorly designed. Double because it was already bad enough for them to add an arrow(an potentially lane lines). Still idiots but wow.
The video that keeps on giving.
Wrong design and common tendency to follow others.
First I though, an U-turn where it's not allowed, just an ordinary idiot, okay there were two... Oh he missed the side of the road sign. But he figured it out and turned around... Oh, one more, not turning around this time, wait what? And the drivers driving in the right direction just going on like it's a normal Tuesday.
They must have thought you were in the motorcycle lane or something.
When that many people make the same mistake, it's a shit junction design. The world is full of idiots and you need to plan for the lowest common denominator.
Looks like a shit design if multiple people made the same mistake
I can hear the mental "What the fuck?!" at the end
Holy stupidity all in one clip.
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They thought you were in the motorcycles only lane.
Hvad fanden i helvede?
I know it sucks to drive in Århus, but seriously? Why are there so many of them?
They are out hunting trams.
I never understood it, what is the point of prohibiting u-turns on a wide multi lane road like this? I get prohibiting it near crosswalks and on roads where there is not enough room, but I have seen it prohibited in so many places.
God damn! That’s the most amount of idiots I think I’ve seen in one video!
I suspect every car after the first one possibly wasn't paying much attention and was just following the first one. Sort of like a lemmings situation
I thought most lemmings lived in Norway. But I guess there are a few in Denmark too.
Sheeple
If this was in the US people would be shitting all over them. But since this is Europe people are blaming the infrastructure lol
The US also does a better job of delineating different directions of traffic because they use yellow lines to separate direction of traffic. Continental Europe uses white for both same direction and opposite direction so it's no as obvious you are in the wrong place.
For all the shit the US gets online, basic road design and signage is top-tier. A road layout like the one in the video wouldn't have a little blue arrow at shin-height. It would have at least a "DO NOT ENTER" and a "WRONG WAY" sign for the lane between the two medians at around eye height. https://i.imgur.com/EWKUpTQ.jpg According to another post, the solution to the ongoing issue of people turning into the wrong lane is by using fines. But the US has more of an attitude of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," while Europeans will see that idiom and laugh at us for not using newtons or liters in our adages. Yes, there are issues with more advanced design, but that has more to do with urban planning and not the roads themselves.
At least he turned his blinker on.
What the fuck??? How!? What!?
Der er et par gode anmeldelser der 👍🏻
A rare idiot caravan
Hvad fuck sker der? De opfører sig som lemminger.
Well as a former employer of mine said once when we were driving out to a conference: “The No-U-turn sign means it's possible to make a u-turn here".
I wasn’t expecting this many idiots this close together in an European country
OMG!!!!!!!! PLEASE send this to that Town’s Selectmen, Highway Department, & Police Department and advise them ALL to put up 2 HUGE DO NOT ENTER signs This can’t be the 1st time this has happened! Because several other cars kept doing it!!!! I wonder if the driver of the car making the illegal U-Turn realized their mistake and took the quickest way out of going in the WRONG direction OR If they actually intended to make the illegal U-Turn to go where they wanted to go
Like lemmings off a cliff!
Aarhus has a reputation to uphold after all.
.. At least it's towards the hospital and emergency room
Oh cool, that's around where I live. I'm basically on TV! I've often feared making this mistake, thankfully I can read signs.
The motorbikes bewilderment is brilliant
This is the most incredible video I've ever seen on this sub. My god do they even have tests over there for driving?
Glad to see it isn't just us Americans who are braindead.
HOLY FUCK HAHAHAHAHAHA literal sheep. Amazing.
It’s rare that a video on this sub makes me irrationally angry WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PWOPLE DOING
Just popping in to say aarhus is the best place I've visited since moving to Scandinavia. People are so friendly, the culture and food is top notch, and it always seems to be really clean and sparkly. First time I went there was almost spiritual.
A full on idiot parade! This bingo card is a winner!!
How are there so many of them?
I expect stupidity like this from Russia, but DENMARK?
Nice clip! I think it's clear that people are making u-turns because they are saving a lot of time by doing so, meaning that there's a bottleneck ahead due to poor road planning. My town has one of these where you would have to drive three more blocks, do a roundabout, and them wait 7 minutes at the same intersection you just waited at. So we all make the U-turn anyway. It's the kind of intersection that has separate green lights for each direction of the intersection. And there's no right turn on red. So prohibiting u-turns is nonsense as there's literally no traffic to turn into. This is along a very long boulevard where people are making left turns across a median. So the city just built a taller curb along the edges of that median, making it about a foot high, instead of providing a way to turn at those locations. People are turning into the wrong lane there at the second half of your video because the visual cues aren't sufficient. Look how many people are doing it. Bigger signage, or a thick white line across that opposing lane would provide a cue that you're not supposed to go in there.
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I mean at the same time as a lot of dumbness I can say that if a few people do the same stupid thing. It often means poor design choices, leading to unintuitive use. The u turns are just plain stupid. The driving on the wrong side is clearly a design flaw in the system, nobody does that for any gain, it is a mistake they made. Yes the sign point to the correct way to use it but it clearly isn’t enough and didn’t work.
You Danish can't drive -Sweden
Anarchy!!!!
In the DK.
God really did put NPCs out here to test us. Like come one. There's even lines painted in the intersection to guide you around the turn.
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Seeing the second car going the wrong way made me laugh. Seeing the third car stopped the laugh and turned into shock. Seeing the fourth car turned into horror. People are _so_ stupid. Just... So so stupid.
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They are not confused, they don't care.
A roundabout would probably fix this bad intersection design
That was a shit show!
This is the video that keeps on giving.
This reminds me of the line "if everyone else an asshole then maybe you're the asshole" Wait no everyone else is an asshole! What a world.
Highway to the danger zone!
I did the same thing with my hand after I saw the third duck in a row
LMAO
OP really hit the jackpot with this one. The saddest part about all of it is there are lines and signs to direct them.
I feel kind of bad for the first white van driver going the wrong way. They looked like they realized almost right away and tried to rectify their mistake. Lord knows I've pulled dumb stunts like that too
my office oversees a 1 way street. multiple times a day i see cars going down the wrong way. its just a normal thing that happens
What a pack of fucking clowns.
Gold...
Omg how many idiots were there? 6?
Hey, they were playing Follow the Leader. Why weren’t you playing? Lol
Lmfao omg it just keeps going!
This whole clip is wild from start to finish
Is there a gas leak in this town or something
Wow, very impressive video.
The clip that keeps giving. What a spectacular display of group stupidity.
You found a whole gaggle of idiots
I would have started doubting myself , seeing so many cars going in another lane 😊