Basically the title but when we do a “U” turn we actually make a small n not a U.
Capital ‘N’ is written differently; ‘U’ and ‘u’ are unambiguous.
Because ultimately, U are the one who must make the turn.
Think it just depends on what perspective the spectator takes.
U u
N n
I’d kinda feel uncomfortable calling it an “n-turn”.
Sounds kinda racist, honestly
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…)
Maybe it was named by someone watching it from the other side of the road, and not the one doing it?
Just call it an intersection turn and use ∩
It’s Unicode U+2229. So I guess we all can formally agree to call it U+2229 turn ? Or in short U turn ? No ?
How do you pronounce it though? 🤔
“backslash cap” :P
Maybe it’s an US thing?
I guess it’s because the U is drawn in 1 fluent motion, a u and an n have the extra line, compared to the U.
My U has the same extra line, just on the right.
*A US thing, by the way, as U begins with /j/ (the ‘y’ sound in you).
Capitalization, I guess. “u-turn” and “U-turn” boil down to the same movement, while “n-turn” and “N-turn” don’t work so well together.
An N turn is presumably parallel parking