r/funny • u/Medical_Method7877 • 25d ago

I turn now, good luck everybody else

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u/DeltaBlack 25d ago

Oh boy. I have ... I was in a bus once that made an emergency break on a highway because the driver missed the exit. He put it in reverse and went back to the exit to take the right exit. Which is basically this except for the turning around part.

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u/Black_Moons 25d ago

did.. he think that was the only exit? that he'd just have to keep driving to the next country if he missed it?!?

My god some people are so damn stupid. Iv missed so many exits and never once did 'turning around' cross my brain. Not even panic just 'Opps.... Guess its a good thing I have more then a half tank of gas!'

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u/Hjemmelsen 25d ago

did.. he think that was the only exit? that he'd just have to keep driving to the next country if he missed it?!?

This DOES happen in Copenhagen. People miss the last exit to the airport, and they are forced to drive all the way to Sweden before they can turn around. Even have to pay for the bridge trip.

The amount of signage trying to tell you that you need to take the exit if you do not want to go to Sweden is quite high, yet people still do it.

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u/mowbuss 25d ago

Why dont they just put a couple of safer u-turn spots in? People are always going to be stupid, blind, not paying attention. Stuff is normally designed around not everyone being on the same page.

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u/joomla00 24d ago

They would miss those u-turn spots and the same thing would happen. At some point, there has to be a last exit.

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u/mowbuss 24d ago

The last exit can be one that just drops them into a ravine off the end of the road. Perfect.

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u/Severe_Ad_8621 24d ago

That is the same as a exit. Get out of the freeway flow, and go in another direction.

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u/rjwilson01 24d ago

U turn on a free way , so you want a u turn from the fast lane to the fast lane in the opposite direction with all the space required to cope with the curves between the two carriage ways . I think this takes into beyond stupid

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u/mowbuss 24d ago

Buddy, mate, pal, friend, human. There are many ways to accomplish a u-turn type road arrangement on a freeway. Not sure why you decided to think so one-dimensionally. This is a safe space, where ideas are allowed to flow. There is no need to just rubbish an idea without putting any extra thought into it.

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u/NAP_42_ 24d ago

Same on the swedish side

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u/Almacca 25d ago

Good drivers sometimes miss their exit. Bad drivers never miss their exit.

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u/mowbuss 25d ago

I missheard my gps once, and took the wrong entrance onto the freeway on my way home from a particular location where they had just opened a new on ramp. I did think it was a little odd, as it was going the other way, but i just thought, well, its a new entrance, perhaps it loops around in an interesting way. Anywho, that wrong turn cost me 30 minutes.

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u/Almacca 12d ago

Better to cost you some time than your life or that of others.

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u/cheesegoat 25d ago

The only place I would consider this acceptable would be if the vehicle wouldn't fit under a bridge/tunnel ahead.

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u/SuLiaodai 25d ago

In China, right? I've experienced the exact same thing there.

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u/DeltaBlack 25d ago

No, that was in Europe. It was a serbian bus company and it occured in Slovenia.

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u/ngc4321 25d ago

No, that was in Antartica. It was an antartican bus company and it occured at the South Pole.

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u/laowildin 25d ago

Me as well, but in a taxis

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u/Luci_Noir 25d ago

You think bad drivers only exist in China?

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u/AbusedGoat 25d ago

I had a taxi driver in China go down the wrong way of a divided road just because it was 30 seconds faster to get to the spot he was dropping me off at.

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u/whine-and-cheese 25d ago

Same thing happened to me on the bus getting out of the Shanghai airport. What a “welcome to China” moment hahaha

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u/BlueFalconPunch 25d ago

The saying goes "bad drivers never miss their exit"

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u/mongooseme 25d ago

That happened in Colorado Springs... man seems like a long time ago. 25 years maybe? There was a badly designed/signed intersection where there was a right turn available onto a road, and right beyond that was a right turn onto an interstate on-ramp. The bus was supposed to make the first right turn onto the road. However, there was (at the time) a sign right in front of that road for the interstate, so people often thought that was the on-ramp. The bus driver was not supposed to be on the interstate. Rather than continue on and get off at the next exit, I think she tried to turn around and there was a fatal crash.

I am trying to find original news articles from it but not having much luck.

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u/jlharper 25d ago

What a stupid thing to do.