--- title: America Should Replace Stoplights With Roundabouts description: America should replace stoplights with roundabouts, U.S. military’s training grounds should double as wildlife preserves and more. canonical: https://time.com/4588874/america-should-replace-stoplights-with-roundabouts/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-02T17:00:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:16.900Z article:section: Ideas og:title: America Should Replace Stoplights with Roundabouts og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4588874/america-should-replace-stoplights-with-roundabouts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: America Should Replace Stoplights with Roundabouts twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # America Should Replace Stoplights With Roundabouts by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 2, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 2, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Should America replace stoplights with roundabouts?**](http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/stoplights-the-hidden-costs/72177) By Tracy Moran in Ozy **2\.** [**Let the U.S. military’s live weapons ranges and training grounds double as wildlife preserves.**](https://psmag.com/military-training-areas-can-double-as-important-wildlife-refuges-13433c6bb4a9#.hacrkhyex) By Shreya Dasgupta in Pacific Standard **3\.** [**Chocolate with 40% less sugar could save millions of lives. Is it too good to be true?**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/nestle-scientists-find-method-to-cut-sugar-in-chocolate-by-40) By Thomas Mulier in Bloomberg **4\.** [**Bad information travels fast. This algorithm will sort the good from the bad on the social web.**](http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/reuters-built-its-own-algorithmic-prediction-tool-to-help-it-spot-and-verify-breaking-news-on-twitter/) By Ricardo Bilton at Nieman Lab **5\.** [**Forget the American dream. Many in Central America are chasing the Mexican dream.**](http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-central-america-immigrants-20161114-story.html) By Kate Linthicum in the Los Angeles Times  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4588874/america-should-replace-stoplights-with-roundabouts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4588874/america-should-replace-stoplights-with-roundabouts/"},"headline":"America Should Replace Stoplights With Roundabouts","datePublished":"2016-12-02T17:00:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:16.900Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4588874/america-should-replace-stoplights-with-roundabouts/","keywords":["Innovation","Infrastructure","chocolate","Mexico","News","U.S. military"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4588874/america-should-replace-stoplights-with-roundabouts/","name":"America Should Replace Stoplights With Roundabouts"}}]}] ```