My understanding is you're not allowed to make a full loop unless it's unsafe to proceed.
Edit: sorry seems I was ambiguous. Meant going fully around and continue around.
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What!? I think I've done a loop at least once when missing the exit (to catch it properly in the second attempt).
Where on earth did you hear this?
It's happened to me more than once that I missed my exit on an unfamiliar roundabout, and what you do is you keep going around and exit through the right exit in the next loop.
It's embarrassing, but perfectly legal.
Just make sure you pull to the left/inner lane (if there are multiple lanes in the roundabout), and move to the outer lane only when your exit is coming up. A pox on people who keep to the outer lane when they're not taking the exit.
Making a full loop is called a U-Turn and they are absolutely permitted.
That's a half loop
If you enter at 6 o'clock and exit again at 6 o'clock, you have travelled 360° which is a full loop.
Since you don't go into the same lane you came from, it could be considered a horseshoe shape.
They went to school in the Midwest, don't be too harsh on them.
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Yeah, I think they were thinking of a barrel-roll.
In my country it's forbidden to drive in the roundabout for longer than necessary to reach the desired exit.
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I don’t remember where but I remember seeing a youtube video where someone did this but didn’t call attention to it
Like they were driving in a roundabout and just kept going around and around, then a jump cut to when they finally exited but like it was clearly much later because the sun was down. They had to have been in it for at least a half hour or so
I'm not entirely sure here, but I think, I saw something about useless driving around as a law around here
Which would fall into this ground, I guess...