Why is it called a U turn and not an n turnMoeaverage@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 97 points – 12 months agoBasically the title but when we do a "U" turn we actually make a small n not a U.57Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsTo make an n-turn, you’d need to star from the other side of the street, drive forward, and then back up while steering around the bend. When creating traffic laws and regulations, this was deemed too dangerous, so they went with “u”. (You should have seen the options when they were using a serif font…)In China they call them biang biang turns.Biang a U-ey is something we have here too. I’ll Xiè myself out
To make an n-turn, you’d need to star from the other side of the street, drive forward, and then back up while steering around the bend. When creating traffic laws and regulations, this was deemed too dangerous, so they went with “u”. (You should have seen the options when they were using a serif font…)In China they call them biang biang turns.Biang a U-ey is something we have here too. I’ll Xiè myself out
In China they call them biang biang turns.Biang a U-ey is something we have here too. I’ll Xiè myself out
To make an n-turn, you’d need to star from the other side of the street, drive forward, and then back up while steering around the bend.
When creating traffic laws and regulations, this was deemed too dangerous, so they went with “u”.
(You should have seen the options when they were using a serif font…)
In China they call them biang biang turns.
Biang a U-ey is something we have here too.
I’ll Xiè myself out