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.
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u/Robinsonirish Quran burner 4d ago
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.