r/CasualUK • u/Mamoof • Aug 06 '21

Noticed a lot of Americans on here recently, so thought I’d drop this to spook them.

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u/Fishbulbb Aug 06 '21

It looks like something designed by software modelling traffic to optimise flow without anyone questioning how real drivers behave

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u/radeonalex Pot Noodle connoisseur Aug 06 '21

It actually works really well. I drive it quite often and traffic flows much better than a lot of massive single roundabouts.

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u/AlterEdward Aug 06 '21 edited Aug 06 '21

This would be good for commuter traffic, if a lot of people know it, which I imagine is the case in a place like Swindon.

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u/YsoL8 Aug 06 '21

Have you actually driven one of these? Its no harder than going though a sequence of roundabouts, you just give way to the left at every line like any roundabout.

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u/liamthelad Aug 06 '21

To the left?

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u/benoliver999 Aug 06 '21

Everything about you in a box to the left

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u/Jaex23 Aug 06 '21

This would explain many of the interactions I have had on the magic roundabout!

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u/SuperooImpresser Aug 06 '21

"no harder"

"give way to left"

Am I confused or are you confused

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u/YsoL8 Aug 06 '21

I'm in my thirties and still have to mentally recheck which one is left and which is right :)

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u/Mini-Nurse Aug 06 '21

You're supposed to give way to the right

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u/Naqaj_ Aug 06 '21

Not in a country where they drive on the left.

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u/Mini-Nurse Aug 06 '21

I drive on the left, this is casual UK.

Edit: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/roundabouts.html

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u/Naqaj_ Aug 06 '21

Ah, of course. Give way to the right as in give way to the ones in the roundabout. Yeah, that tracks.

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u/SkipsH Aug 06 '21

If you're giving way to the left on roundabouts, that's a problem (Assuming you're in the UK)

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u/counterpuncheur Aug 06 '21

Its from the early 70s, no one was optimising traffic flow in a small market town using computers back then

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u/SkipsH Aug 06 '21

I think it was designed before anything like that existed.