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Reader David sends in this reminder, via Failblog, that even the best systems cannot account for the behavior of every last driver.

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  1. Yokota Fritz Says:
    May 27th, 2010 at 11:04 am

    You can almost guarantee something like this will happen on any brand new roundabout. The last city I lived in, we installed four new roundabouts and had somebody crash directly into the middle of each of them within the month.

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