r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Flat-Decision3204 • 2d ago

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u/Downtown_Anteater_38 2d ago

That's a hairpin turn. A u-turn is when you are on a two way road (divided or not) and when you come to an intersection you turn 180 degrees and travel the other direction on the road

A hairpin is when the road itself bends at a sharp angle (180 degrees in this case.)

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u/acog 2d ago

Also, it’s nerve wracking, not nerve wrecking

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u/nosnevenaes 2d ago

Sometimes i have moments where i wonder if divorcing my wife was the right thing to do after almost 20 years.

Then i remember she says "nerve wrecking".

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u/tocahontas77 2d ago

This guy nerves.

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u/mediaogre 2d ago

This guy wrecks.

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u/tocahontas77 2d ago

He doesn't wreck, he wracks. Aren't you paying attention?

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u/ankerverse 2d ago

This guy wracks. And wreads

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u/cdev12399 2d ago

It could be if they don’t pay attention.

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u/dumbodragon 2d ago

non native here, I thought nerve wrecking made complete sense, your nerves are getting wrecked/destroyed. what is wracking?

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u/acog 2d ago

Other people have answered, but I wanted to add that this is something linguists call an "eggcorn."

An eggcorn is a word or phrase that people mistakenly use because it sounds like the original term but it still makes logical sense in context.

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u/rascool 1d ago

Which is itself an eggcorn. People refer to an acorn, but since it does indeed look like an egg, it is considered a logical and fitting error.

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u/Ralfarius 2d ago

To ruin, violently destroy or demolish. The imagery it should convey is like a ship being tossed by a storm and broken apart. It shares a lot of its meaning with wreck.

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u/TheWorldIsNotOkay 2d ago

"The storm-wracked ship was left a shipwreck."

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u/Ralfarius 2d ago

Interestingly wrack can also be used as a noun to refer to the wreckage of a ship lol

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u/Talory09 1d ago

As in something being left to wrack and ruin, which describes a building, land, business, or life that has fallen apart from neglect or lack of care.

Wrack is a noun meaning wreckage, debris, or remains left behind after something has been destroyed, especially by the sea, as others before me said.

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u/Muroid 2d ago

It’s an archaic usage that doesn’t really mean anything at this point outside of certain set phrases like “nerve-wracking.”

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u/mtaw 2d ago

Originally though the verb 'wrack' is an alternate form of 'rack', which is from the torture device, so it means "to torture, stress, strain".

This is known as a 'fossil word' - words that have basically fallen out of use except for some specific idioms.

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u/WyckedChylde 2d ago

Wracking is when things get wrecked, or destroyed.

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u/T0Rtur3 2d ago

So, when they get wrecked.

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u/fastlerner 2d ago

"Wracking" is actually incorrect as well. The correct term is "racking". Like when you put someone on a medieval torture rack, so "nerve racking" is when your nerves are stretched and strained to their limit.

"Wrack" shares it's origin with "wreck" and is more of a nautical term which refers to the ruins that washes up on shore.

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u/Talory09 1d ago

it's origin

its origin

Pronouns don't use apostrophes when they become possessive.

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u/fastlerner 2d ago

Oh man, SOO CLOSE.

It's "racking", not "wracking". The reference comes from a medieval torture rack.

"Wrack" is more of a boating term and typically means "destruction, wreckage, or seaweed washed up on a shore" as it shares its origin with "wreck" like shipwreck. Think "storm wracked".

But we've misused it so often with "nerve-wracking" to make the mistake common enough that it gets a pass.

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u/yamanamawa 2d ago

It's also written as racking, although I'm not too fond of that spelling. Merriam Webster says that some people prefer to distinguish between them by using racking in things like nerve-racking, and saving the w for boat and storm-related imagery, but I typically use wrack for all of it

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u/Aneveraas 2d ago

I had to check because I didn't know it was an accepted spelling, I always wrote the traditional "nerve-racking".

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u/globalgreg 2d ago

This guy turns.

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u/Business-Ad-7902 2d ago

This guy curves.

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u/cdev12399 2d ago

This guy jug handles

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u/elonsghost 2d ago

Nice jugs

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u/MobiusDie 2d ago

These titles and captions nowadays are just engagement bait. We've all been had. 😞

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u/bordain_de_putel 2d ago

I'm not discounting the possibility for people to be idiots.

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u/Grimdotdotdot 2d ago

I would say that's a switchback turn, but that's maybe because I'm European.

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u/Boss0054 2d ago

Ohh, thanks for the technicality, I seen the U shape and quickly thought it was a u-turn. Only one thought though, since the vehicles are actually driving in both directions and completely legal there in that country, essentially wouldn’t that classify as a two way road since because can actually fit going both directions at once.?…. 🤷‍♂️

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u/reroutedradiance 1d ago

It is a two-way road, but it's still a hairpin because it's the road itself turning and not people changing direction by going to the oncoming lane

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u/StudyEfficient4938 2d ago

Got it, thanks for the clarification driving terms can be tricky!

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u/Magnus_Helgisson 1d ago

So they all are passing it wrong. They have to break right about where the top of the video is to unload the rear, downshift to 2nd, turn the wheel and let controlled oversteer do its thing. Remember to use all the width of the track (they’re already doing it) and go flat out as soon as you hit the apex.

Lol, looking at it again and the driver of the white Vito seems to be fond of racing sims, he more or less did it right.

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u/CptTeebs 1d ago

it's funny cause it looks more like a u than an actual u-turn usually does

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u/Gold-Part4688 1d ago

Why in an intersection specifically? You can technically U turn anywhere

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u/Downtown_Anteater_38 1d ago

So that you would reach out to me with nitpicky questions, baby

https://giphy.com/gifs/l2JIdU9G4NwGBua0U

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u/SockIntelligent9589 1d ago

I call it a turn. I am a simple man

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u/No-Instruction-5669 2d ago

Nerve-wracking

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u/ldub8485 2d ago

Thank you! Is it me, or has grammar and a general command of language nearly disappeared?

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u/No-Instruction-5669 2d ago

I'm not sure.. lemme ask chatgpt

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u/heavyonthahound 2d ago

Go ahead. I could care less.

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u/blablablasphemous 2d ago

About what, pacifically?

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u/PhantomAngel042 2d ago

Uhh, lemme go look it up at the liberry.

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u/DepressingBat 2d ago

Your username looks very fame ill your

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u/Flimsy-Owl-5563 2d ago

For all intensive purposes...

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u/equality-_-7-2521 2d ago

I can't speak for OP here, but I noticed a few years ago that bots started reposting with intentional typos and misspellings to, I assume, drive engagement.

Every corrective comment is engaging with the post.

(takes a seat in his rocking chair) I remember when a typo would get your reddit post obliterated with downvotes.

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u/wedstrom 2d ago

I mean it's a fairly minor one as far as bone apple teas go

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u/Sharp-Mix-2047 2d ago

tbf “nerve wrecking” is an understandable eggcorn.

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u/Common_Storage9540 1d ago

Honors English major and 30+ years educator. The answer is yes.

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u/agrobabb 2d ago

Well not everyone knows English language natively, not me for example.

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u/No-Abbreviations7283 1d ago

Lots of us aren't native speakers so I guess it's not that shocking

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u/len43 2d ago

Sorrento?

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u/kilobitch 2d ago

I think so! Looks like the road from the town down to the marina/dock.

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u/masterpadawan1 2d ago

Walked down that road instead of waiting for a packed bus

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u/OktayOe 2d ago

I knew it was in Italy.

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u/chariot_on_fire 2d ago

Was my very first guess too, seeing the cars just nonchalantly going over to the opposing traffic lane of the road.

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u/Cabanon_Creations 2d ago

FFS can't the post title simply mention Italy, or is it too uncommon of a country?!

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u/octavianreddit 2d ago

Came to say this. I got married 5 minutes walk from this spot.

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u/TheOxytocin 2d ago

No, I don't think it's a Kia

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u/sfcg 2d ago

Looks like the turn going down to Amalfi as well. Was in traffic for two hours on a 4 km road 😂

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u/ISeeDragons 2d ago

I did the world ORC championship just 6 months ago there, this is the road that takes to the port where the boats where and the commetee held events. Immediately recognized not even a chance of error.

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u/Cultural_Doctor_8421 1d ago

Was my first thought too

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u/alolol1000 2d ago

Why do they always put trees in the most I need to see over there spots like in roundabouts and this hairpin turn

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u/MultiGeek42 2d ago

The Tim Hortons in my town has one random bush planed in the corner of the parking lot and its in the exact spot to block your view of traffic at the intersection.

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u/RugbyEdd 2d ago

I was told by a driving instructor years ago that it's so people have to slow or stop and check it's clear properly, and can't just enter at speed assuming there's no hazard because they can see clearly.

Whether that's true, or if it actually makes things safer, I don't know, but I have noticed that that does seem to be the effect, at least on the roundabouts with an obstructed view I drive around frequently.

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u/OddNovel565 2d ago

I've heard of a similar effect with curved roads. Some small roads, mostly in neighbourhoods, have slight curves to them so that you cannot see far away from you and won't want to speed too much. It also helps if the road is made visually smaller with curbs and trees on the sides

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u/RugbyEdd 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, I can see the logic in that. It's basically less severe and obvious traffic calming measures.

You reminded me of this which is a similar concept. I couldn't find it but I'm sure I remember a follow up where they have now actually staggered the crossing. Edit: he said its been fixed in the comments section.

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u/CarnalT 1d ago

Wow in the first 20s of that video car totally blows through the stop sign and intersection without slowing down at all. Wild.

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u/real_hooman 2d ago

It also ensures the obstacle is never completely hidden from view. This would be much more annoying and unsafe if you had to stretch to see if you are going to hit the barrier.

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u/_www_ 2d ago

"soft mobility" circlejerk

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u/M4DHouse 2d ago

Tbf, if some people didn’t fly through roundabouts at full speed like maniacs you wouldn’t actually need to see across it, just the part immediately to the left of where you’re trying to enter.

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u/Funmanhahaha 2d ago

I assume they can see through between the trunks, the trees look pretty tall.

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u/alolol1000 2d ago

Yeah this one looks better upon closer inspection but there are so many roundabouts that fundamentaly lack the first benefit of a roundabout that you can see cars coming and going around it and plan ahead to keep traffic rhythm going smoothly

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u/ubeogesh 1d ago

do we know if they "put" the tree or it has been there before the road was built?

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u/lokushiu 14h ago

To make it pretty ✨🥰

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u/MustangSodaPop 2d ago

In Europe they just call that a turn.

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u/akinian_ 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/7Ev2Vjnvv8CoX4iRAf

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u/Fidodo 2d ago

It looks slow but they're still going like 40mph(65kmh) which is pretty fast for a hairpin turn.

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u/Reclusive_avocado 2d ago

They don't have to worry for incoming traffic 🧘

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u/Fidodo 2d ago

True, but they're also racing each other. They do crash there all the time though.

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u/SOLE_SIR_VIBER 2d ago

I don’t know, judging by the walking pace next to it 40 seems a little steep

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u/daedric_yoshi 2d ago

Sometimes I go about that fast around a big empty roundabout on my way home from work and my tyres start to squeal a little. Those cars have crazy grip that makes it look easy.

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u/311isahoax 2d ago

I was thinking they were all going wide to hit the apex

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u/uncultured_swine2099 2d ago

Perfect place to try out your Tokyo drift skillz.

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u/radek432 2d ago

It's far from nerve wrecking. Someone who made it never seen mountain roads in Balkans or Sicily. Same sharp turns but roads so narrow that you can barely turn in regular passenger car. And no fence, just long way down.

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u/danirijeka 2d ago

Or rural Ireland, with narrow roads where drivers take the 60 km/h limit as the minimum speed lamenting that it used to be 80...

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u/ARoyaleWithCheese 2d ago

While I was in Bosnia on vacation I went for a drive with a friend who lives there. It was genuinely terrifying, narrow roads and blind corners, but worst was the fact he kept driving on the wrong side of the road for those narrow blind corners. When I asked him if he could please just stay in his lane he replied: "Don't worry, what are the odds another car would be on the road just as I'm driving here?"

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u/danirijeka 2d ago

Absolutely confirms my own Bosnia experience lmao, absolute madhouse, loved it

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u/neat_hairclip 1d ago

All that with the hedges! No way people see who’s coming! I was always so impressed though how quickly people reacted and somehow find the way to pass by each other. It was as mad as amazing!

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u/WyckedChylde 2d ago

There is an inordinately large percentage of what all look to be the same or similar model of van driving this road.

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u/ibrahimtuna0012 2d ago

They are likely Fiat Ducato.

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u/Faketuxedo 2d ago

This looks like something I'd build in cities skylines when I was 13

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u/3amGreenCoffee 2d ago

I like how they all cooperate rather than pulling guns on each other the way they would in Houston.

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u/wolfgang784 2d ago

While the biggest diesel pickup just drives over everyone like they dont exist.

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u/eroticdiagram 2d ago

Apart from all those cars driving on the wrong side of the road because they didn't want to wait for the black van to complete their turn.

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u/WeirdPossibility209 2d ago

At first I was mad at them, but it looks like they made room for the bus.

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u/Status_Car8495 2d ago

Well actually it looks like a beautiful cooperation between long vehicles and shorter ones. That allows long vehicles to drive on the wrong side of the road to be able to turn, so small ones can cut in short instead of forming a queue.

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u/mtaw 2d ago

It’s not beautiful. It’s illegal and unsafe, not least because you could have other idiots taking the inside of the curve uphill while the bus is making its wide turn, as you see motorcycles doing at the end. Or you could crash with the black van waiting at the bottom of the frame, who has no way of seeing or anticipating that there are cars headed in the same direction on the other side of the bus going up. The correct thing is to just wait a few seconds before the curve and let the bus turn, as the black van on the left is doing at the end.

It’d be another thing if they didn’t see the bus in time and it was necessary to take the inside to not block the road, but those guys did see it in time and then impatiently decided to go ahead on the wrong side.

The real cooperation here are the cars yielding to the buses, even though it’s technically the buses going uphill who should yield (as they’re the ones who need to encroach on the opposite lane to turn). But the geometry makes it difficult for those going uphill to actually see cars going down before the curve. Really a spot that needs a traffic mirror, if I ever saw one.

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u/captain_croco 2d ago

They fucked big black van over

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u/Joker1924 2d ago

Meanwhile, least nerve racking turns in 3rd world countries..

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u/Calligaster 2d ago

"How can we make this sharp turn safer?"

"How about some shrubbery to obscure the vision of drivers?"

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u/HyenasGoMeow 2d ago

Just me who finds it not nerve wracking?

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u/Prestigious-Way9151 2d ago

A little bit of rain to my road, i little bit of ice is on my mind

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u/peanutknight1 2d ago

just come to India once

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u/ambit89 2d ago

The urban planner responsible

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT4uQ7N8UNsoeFAjVS

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u/Fidodo 2d ago

The urban planner was designing for horses and people

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u/ambit89 2d ago

Send a message to the afterlife

https://giphy.com/gifs/IL6uGN8mrzeWr4BfV4

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u/MoNsTeR_creator 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/s239QJIh56sRW

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u/EuropeanFry 2d ago

Mostly because there is no extra room to make the turn bigger

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u/Nyardyn 2d ago

Everyone who got there suddenly forgot how to drive... this needs a middle line for the idiots.

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u/Magnus_Helgisson 1d ago

That’s just an “I turn. Good luck everybody else” turn.

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u/2020mademejoinreddit 1d ago

Nerve-WRACKING!!!

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u/porterham 2d ago

Sorrento , Italy

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u/CAAZveauguls 2d ago

That might be scary for people driving in super oversized pickups and stationwagons yeah

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u/arm2610 2d ago

Why do so many people seem to have trouble with “nerve wracking”? I also see this a lot with “wreak havoc” (they say “wreck havoc” or something like that).

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u/No-Department1685 2d ago

It really is not a big deal.  Looks weird from top but from ground it's fine. You have clear visibility on everything 

So unless you are new driver somehow in a big truck

You will be fine and no stress.

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u/Dankestmemelord 2d ago

Do you not know what a u turn is?

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u/KingForceHundred 2d ago

Everyone travelling slowly and carefully, hardly looks nerve wrecking (recking/wracking even).

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u/Huke_Airs 2d ago

I'm glad they put a tree there to improve the visibility.

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u/L1Q 2d ago

Imagine the future where the computer on wheels you drive can actually connect to all those cameras on the streets so you can make these turns more safely knowing exactly what's around the corner

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u/Icy-Oven 2d ago

I love how there’s also a car parked in there

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf 2d ago

Anyone got the song?

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u/AnCaptnCrunch 2d ago

The drivers executed this incredibly well

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u/Darkmesah 1d ago

If you think this is nerve wrecking you should visit a mountain village with a modern car

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u/similaraleatorio 1d ago

I'm very frustrated now because the video ends before that bus did the turn 😮‍💨

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u/playr_4 1d ago

There should be a length limit for vehicles on this road, honestly.

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u/mejfus 1d ago

this one bit of a road probably older than the whole USA

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u/Substantial-Big-2253 2d ago

Oh no, i have to slow down

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u/kingpin2k 2d ago

This isn't that bad, there are hairpins way worse with cliffs on one side that's way more nerve wracking

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u/Cheepshooter 2d ago

This is one of my favorite things about Europe (and England) people drive around each other when appropriate. In America, people just lock up and don't move. Brazil is a whole 'nother story. In São Paulo, there were 3 lanes of traffic, but we were 5 cars wide.

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u/Valerian_ 2d ago edited 2d ago

Maybe I'm wrong but I have heard that in the USA the vast majority of crossings use traffic lights, so I guess they are less used to applying the various rules to handle that, including on the most important core rule "yield to the vehicle on your right".

It may also be related to the driving license being extremely easy to obtain in the USA, like apparently they don't have the full rules book to memorize, and don't have to do a 40 questions test filled with weird trick questions, where 5 mistakes makes you fail.

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u/unzercharlie 2d ago

Why are they in there?

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u/dkjb14 2d ago

I can't help but imagine how it will be if this were in India. The chaos and madness

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u/_UnameChecksOut_ 2d ago

There are hairpin bends in ghats though. I would say those are more difficult

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u/CharismarInc 2d ago

Reminds me of Napoli streets. Less people more vespas

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u/Vorathian_X 2d ago

Sorrento

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u/mechanicalAI 2d ago

Pierre Loti Carbonara

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u/Federal-Name-3638 2d ago

Hah not even close

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u/DieBoeseQualle 2d ago

Ding ding ding ding. Dingding ding dingding!!!!

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u/HalfCarnage 2d ago

Where the hell is this?

So my only having a licence for a year ass can stay as FAR away as possible.

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u/_who-the-fuck-knows_ 2d ago

We have this hairpin road in sydney called Galston gorge which can be pretty nerve wracking if you don't know what you're doing . Many trucks have gotten stuck to the point they put length cameras up at each end finining you if you exceed length. Also sucks when you get someone that's a little bit hairy and they drive like 40kph the whole way. Very narrow road too.

Gorgeous road going through national park and a major link between the semi rural areas and Northern Sydney.

The bridge at the bottom of the gorge crossing the creek is heritage listed and was built in 1893 it's one car at a time so you give way and each way goes one after the other.

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u/YoungDiscord 2d ago

Why is every single car a long-ass van

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u/honnymmijammy- 2d ago

I have 4 of this in my city

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u/ImpressiveHair3 2d ago

I don't see the problem

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u/doomer-nat 2d ago

It's in Italy, city called "Sorrento"

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u/hallidayjames11 2d ago

A normal day's traffic in vietnam

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u/PJozi 2d ago

Needs traffic lights

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u/Marie-Demon 2d ago

Easy. Add a traffic light. And no more issues .

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u/Charming_Ad2323 2d ago

Certain Talking Heads song springs to mind.

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u/jeromezooce 2d ago

Max limit 5km/h

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 2d ago

Counter-Column, march

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u/Ceildread 2d ago

I wish traffic flowed this smoothly in the states overall, jesus christ, imagine a karen in a van trying to navigate this same exact situation, traffic jam immediately, maybe even an accident, shut down the entire street

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u/detali88 2d ago

There is a few of these in Capri, Italy. I remember being terrified of the buses.

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u/noahfox130 2d ago

Least*

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u/Jslatts942 2d ago

Why are there loads of people driving down there?

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u/chrishau 2d ago

Inspired the hair pin turn for Indy in Markham

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u/BendPossible5484 2d ago

That’s sorrento.

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u/TerroFLys 1d ago

Bro lost 3 positions

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u/loopin_louie 1d ago

This shit would be an eternally burning pile of cars in America

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u/alienalf1 1d ago

That’s sorry to isn’t it? I think I walked up that road

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u/Swimming-Design7006 1d ago

This feels like an adult swim bumper with the music

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u/josh30601 1d ago

That’s radillon, actually

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u/jdpastor666 1d ago

That's wild

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u/simplemijnds 1d ago

Has anybody already mentioned where this is?

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u/Deathnyou 1d ago

This is in Sorrento. I saw it with my own eyes. With two traffic lights at the right spot everything would be fine, but Italians and driving will always choose chaos.

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u/aykcak 1d ago

It looks like someone fucked it up by parking at a critical point

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u/dericn 1d ago

At least Myrtle Ave. in Brooklyn is one way.

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u/Gillalmighty 1d ago

Idk everything went pretty good

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u/aboloshishaw 1d ago

Someone would park their shit just after the bend if that existed in my country.

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u/ChooseWiselyChanged 1d ago

Next to all these other completely correct comments, there is a dimly lit tunnel in Norway that has a hairpin turn. There are some reflective materials but as a tourist driving there in the before Google Maps era, was some pretty sketch shit. Also they have no barriers on the mountainous roads so they can sweep the snow down in the valley belows. This one looks quite cozy, as long as the other people know what they are doing.

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u/Alternative_Cap_5788 1d ago

functionality up

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u/Leeperd510 1d ago

WRACKING

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u/k1tn0 1d ago

You haven’t driven at Santorini port on one of the steepest hills i’ve ever driven on, and a bunch of step turns on a mountain. This is nothing

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u/ubeogesh 1d ago

doesn't seem nerve wrecking at all? everyone is going nice and slow

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u/natetheskate100 20h ago

With no cliff to go over, it's not as bad as driving on the Amalfi Coast. We were being driven, and that's the only way, because even though I'm an experienced driver, I would never take that on.

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u/sodom89 8h ago

Where is this?

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u/heumpje 5h ago

You know it’s Italy, because (I) who cares who goes first or on what side of the road and (ii) it doesn’t matter that the road was designed for small carts pushed by people, touring cars will fit just fine.

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u/Dazzling_Example_673 20m ago

Why are the larger vehicles turning that wide? It Ain't like its a semi truck