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Americans famously hate driving through roundabouts, but why do traffic engineers obsess over building them?

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Americans famously hate driving through roundabouts, but why do traffic engineers obsess over building them?

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Americans famously hate driving through roundabouts, but why do traffic engineers obsess over building them?
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