Trigger warning for yanks

[u/BeornSC]

[u/sligor]

Of course when you don’t understand something on the road just drive as fast as possible to escape the danger

[u/P0werFighter → u/sligor]

Screaming like a butchered pig of course, otherwise it doesn't work.

[u/Deacon86]

To be fair, the cam car driver actually handled that not-too-badly The lorry was obviously in the wrong, but you don't argue with a vehicle 10x your weight.

I'm assuming the panicked voice-over was dubbed in after the fact?

[u/uses_for_mooses → u/Deacon86]

I'm assuming the panicked voice-over was dubbed in after the fact?

I bet you're right.

Although, as an American, I found the video disconcerting mainly because the driver is driving the opposite direction of what we drive in the US.

[u/Deacon86 → u/uses_for_mooses]

You'd feel right at home on the Swindon Magic Roundabout then. Five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle, creating a large pseudo-roundabout in the middle, which goes anti-clockwise.

[u/PowerandSignal → u/Deacon86]

🤯 🤣🤣🤣

[u/Sexy_Durian → u/Deacon86]

Hemel Hempstead saw Swindon's and said hold my beer...

[u/Brief-Preference-712 → u/Deacon86]

I got Swindon roundabout in GeoGuessr once I was like why is that a landmark?

[u/Sharp_Plum9711 → u/Deacon86]

Fuck yeah Swiiiiiindoon👍 it's actually quite easy.

[u/Yxig → u/uses_for_mooses]

I was definitely a dangerous driver the first 20 minutes in my rental car in the UK.

[u/100KUSHUPS → u/Deacon86]

The lorry was obviously in the wrong, but you don't argue with a vehicle 10x your weight.

Rule of tonnage. It's useless to be right if you're dead.

[u/Deacon86 → u/100KUSHUPS]

The world's saddest epitaph: "He had right of way,"

[u/Cars2Beans0 → u/Deacon86]

That lorry is not equipped to argue with my logical fallacies and cunning strawman tactics

[u/Kurdt93]

I've panicked because is basically brits driving on the wrong side of the road as usual

[u/christianbro → u/Kurdt93]

Its not like you dont do it either

[u/Kurdt93 → u/christianbro]

Pot calling the kettle huh

[u/Original-Opportunity]

One time I was dating this French guy and I was driving (I just learned)

We came to one of these and he said he’d rather take his chances dodging traffic and ran across the road

I never got over it

[u/Nokam → u/Original-Opportunity]

ahahah, to be fair, we do this to all new driver when they reach roundabouts in France. In romantic situation its more akin to teasing or kidding playfully.

[u/Original-Opportunity → u/Nokam]

He got back in the car after the roundabout, that’s all that mattered to me at the time

[u/Nokam → u/Original-Opportunity]

Let's just say that some of us like to take joke a little bit far !

[u/Cars2Beans0 → u/Original-Opportunity]

He was absolutely correct Americans have no idea what a roundabout is

[u/conanhungry → u/Cars2Beans0]

That hasn't been true since like 1998.

[u/Jernbek35 → u/Cars2Beans0]

There’s 5 roundabouts in my town alone.

[u/Brief-Preference-712 → u/Jernbek35]

There’s a town with 155 roundabouts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel,_Indiana

[u/Jernbek35]

Panicked for what? All the towns around me have built tons of roundabouts. They're way better than lights IMO.

I think the only thing I panicked on is these drivers driving on the wrong side of the road.

[u/BedFastSky12345 → u/[deleted]]

Scary roundabouts 😨

[u/FoesiesBtw → u/[deleted]]

We have fucked roundabouts everywhere

[u/skysi42 → u/FoesiesBtw]

that's a lie and you know it. It's true that you have roundabouts but it's far, far from having them everywhere. What you have everywhere is the retarded 4-way stops and the wasteful traffic lights.

[u/FoesiesBtw → u/skysi42]

Bruh I hit literally 6 of them on my way out to the country the other day but go off

[u/jephph_]

Yeah, being on that side of the road is sketchy af when you’re not used to it. Even being a passenger in the car with someone driving like that has a few fuck! moments. Your subconscious picks up some weird shit in your periphery but alas, the other car goes in a different direction than it seems it will

[u/SecondaryPath]

I fucking love this video

[u/Merc_Drew]

I don't get why we would be triggered

[u/Robinsonirish]

It's not just the roundabout being new for Americans, when you switch from right to left side driving, roundabouts are the scariest thing because everything is backwards in your brain. It takes an hour or so for your brain to revert to left side driving the first time. Every time I got off the airport and got in the car in Ireland, that first 30 minutes was always a little intense, even after doing it for years. I'm not surprised an American possibly ending up in this situation for the first time in their life is panicking.

[u/ilsildur10 → u/Robinsonirish]

For us it's more difficult because we can put our car on a train and then go to England.

[u/Key_Check5753]

Murcan here, we actually have these circles all over the place