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But people don’t know how to use them and just make it a free for all. Look no further than the Boston metro area for how this actually shakes out.

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15 to 20 years ago when roundabouts were first introduced to where I live (southern Germany), people were pretty terrible at using them.

After about 5-10 years, people have gotten the hang of it, new drivers were properly educated in driving school, now they work fine.

You've got to have a little patience, and actually expose people to it, then it works out fine.

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People don't know how to use them because they never encounter them. Once they've been around for a while, people will encounter them and learn how to use them.

If Americans can put down their mobile phones and concentrate on the driving.

There are lots of roundabouts in the Boston area (where we call them rotaries). People encounter them regularly and STILL don't know how to use them. Although recently there have been great strides made in using lane markings to steer drivers through more effectively.

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