A Drive Around the Magic Roundabout in Swindon (HD)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2012
- You can drive around it either way and it's put Swindon on the map. Recorded on a Swindon Town Football Club matchday (hence the police presence).
One for all you roundaphiles!
I-I think Ill just walk. lol
Now I understand why there are no fatal crashes on this roundabout. How can you crash when you're standing still 90% of the time.
So It is with trafic lights
Still most fatal accidents happen there.
Maybe people are colorblind or read yellow and red as "RUN FASTER". IDK
should not have watched this before my driving test .. big mistake
Good luck!
I had to drive across this as part of my driving test
I agree with Lord Moredon, more or less. This video illustrates the principle, but the driver made the mistake of following some 'scaredy custard' drivers and hadn't taken the time to learn to 'do' it properly and use all (3 or 4) lanes available at each circle.
I discovered this roundabout in 1980 when we moved there and soon realised that if the traffic 'locks' on one route, you just have to take a different route and it not only gets you ahead but unlocks it for everyone else.
But I agree - you either love it or hate it.
Those who hate it avoid it - reducing the volume of traffic - job done! [last part only joking!]
In the pre-industrial era, horses kept to the left so riders could draw their sword (as most people are right handed)
Napoleon changed Europe to the right (as he was left handed)
The US followed France
But British influenced India, Pakistan, Australia and the Republic of Ireland
fascinating!
@@dumpit3583 You say that, but we drive the vehicles (car, bus, trucks) on the right side, the correct side to operate a vehicle. So could argue it is you who drives down the wrong side of the road for operating a vehicle on the wrong side.
Actually it was so that when leading a horse on foot, the right handed person would be on the outside of the road rather than in the middle. Nothing to do with swords.
That would drive me round the bend!
Imagine having to do that on your test lol
The pressure would be just too much
its not in the car test only the hgv test ! I have my hgv test tomorrow and I've around this goddamn roundabout so many times but I still don't know where to go !!!!
@@montegrainger9533 I'm doing it now, and I'm not from Swindon... It's horrible, my worst nightmare. I'm sure the moment I'm on this roundabout I'm done, which is a shame, because literally everything else is going great for me. :(
@@CoKaNee Don’t worry if I passed so can you - I’m not from there either so just think you’ll never have to do it again !
@@montegrainger9533 thanks for kind words. I'm still worried about this bloody roundabout. I'm gonna travel 2h to Swindon before my test and drive it all day until I get it. I'm from South Wales and my workplace send me there for test. I won't be even a lorry driver, I'm a crane operator.
I got used to roundabouts when I lived in Australia. They work well and improve traffic flow.
But they are only single, this is five encircling a single, which I think has an outside single. I would have to pay some local to drive me through it.
Apparently you liked it so much you took an extra round. :D
This is a really unique and obviously well working idea for a round about.
You know... I thought the main purpose of a roundabout was to keep traffic flowing continuously...
It is, were you not watching the video?
Helluva lot more smooth than it used to be!
Im so fucking confused right now
I have used both Swindon and Hemel Hempstead roundabouts multiple of times and everytime it's been a free flow, unlike traffic light juctions where you have to stop even if there is no one around!
The magic roundabout makes sense as soon as you are on the roundabout
2:30 the only burger king in swindon :(
isn't the point of a roundabout is to keep a constant flow of motion?
Exactly
You do know that you have to stop before going onto any roundabout, this is just 6 roundabouts and the stopping is going from one to another.
Ollie Wales that is completely untrue and if you stop every time before you enter a roundabout I actually hate you.
A constant flow of motion, where everyone moves at the same time and nobody ever stops, in that intersection would look like five separate frontal pile-up crashes.
This roundabout has improved traffic flow by at least five times compared to if this had been a traffic light intersection.
@@OllieWales That isn't true at all
I’ve just passed the practical so I’m not gonna drive there until 2022
I got family in Swindon & that roundabout is nuts i'd get lost
I remember the day it opened,utter confusion.Friend of mine got knocked of his m/cycle by a vicar in a Mini about a year after the round about was opened.
Oh blimey how confusing is that! Would love to have a go & drive around it one day.
its a brilliant junction controlling 5 major roads, i have lived locally all my life and never once seen an accident there, neither have i seen any major delays, not even on match days. The main problem is drivers like the one that filmed this,navigating it in the wrong lane EVERY time just for effect is what causes accidents.
Does tomtom actually know what to do or say here?
hateus420 turn rilegelfeltegheitlfle
The records of their roundabout are very convincing. It has a higher throughput of cars per day so there is less congestions. The number of accidents and their severity is much lower than on regular crossings and the cars spend less time on the lanes of the roundabout than on regular roundabouts as you can take shortcuts- that's what the smaller roundabouts are for.
I've gone through this SO many times because I've lived here since I was born and if you look at a birds eye view of this, it's not that complicated. I'm only 14 so I've never actually driven through it.
19 now
How is It?
21 now update please
This is madness!! Lol
A chap named Frank Blackmore!
It's easier than it first appears, though a lot of people find it scary because they don't understand how it works. I'm sure there have been a lot of accidents though I think people give each other a little more tolerance because of the unique layout.
Most roundabouts now have a curve before the entry so you are guided in the correct direction. I drove straight onto roundabouts in France the first few times I drove there. The village ones are the worst! : )
How does sat nav work here?
is he really putting the handbrake at every fucking stops he makes I drive standard and dont do that
Yes - following Highway Code rule 114.
thats an obsolete and retarded rule as many others...
+egykilenckilenchet not in canada:')
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It's not obsolete at all. You can find it very much still in force on the Highway Code website: www.highwaycode.info/rule/114
WiltshireByways I struggle to understand how what you said proves they're not obsolete, but whatever suits you mate. I just use my right/left foot
How many roundabouts do you need?
*YES*
I have to visit Swindon next time i go to GB.. 👍🏼🇩🇰 Such a funny roundabout..😁
I was a bit out at 1:28, but other than that I took one of the 'straight ahead' lanes over the 'right' lane each time. There was no-one behind and no near misses.
To me it looks like being trapped in a pin- ball machine!
So understanding how to use the roundabout is fine. But knowing where you have to actually exit would be a fucking nightmare.
It was one of the best things for the flow of traffic Nd a lot easier to use than you think
Well you are far better than me if you managed it alright the first time ;)
The very first I took was a mini roundabout while exiting a services area on the M1 motorway. Fortunately I was the only one there cause I took it on the wrong side :S :S
The second one, far lot bigger was a spiral roundabout... what a scary thing even when you were warned about them.
I have to precise that I use a french car... so the wheel is on the wrong side to correctly see incoming vehicles
One for the Pyongyang traffic police.
OMG in the center they're driving the RIGHT WAY of the street for once! :D
JK love yah brits
-Canadian
Serious: can you upload this video but mirrored to trip out everyone :D
Ha ha ! Madness ! Our wee town is just getting its 3rd roundabout, and the nearest traffic lights are miles away, over the mountains, lol
The one at Sadlers Farm was terrible. It's gone now, new road layout. A13 / A130 Junction, nr Basildon.
It would. I have no idea why we drive on the left! It would cause chaos if we swapped now ha!
Looks like chaos to me.
Looks far easier than a single roundabout
Glad I live in the countryside away from these complicated roads.
They live in urban hell, they enjoy sausage rolls...
Yes countryside horse shit roads
@@mzimasprings3217 I don’t care! At least the roads look normal.
Currently visiting Swindon and appalled at how poorly maintained the roads are here. The white paint on the roads is barely visible.
You're going a bit ott with the hand break. It's not even dark so dazzling the driver behind isn't an issue
*brake.
WiltshireByways shit, but it'll break eventually due to excessive use
Yeah for some reason some brits love their handbrake. Stopped at a small incline? Handbrake. Stopped behind a light? Handbrake. Stopped at a roundabout? Handbrake. Stopped? Handbrake. It's really strange coming from a country where that kind of thing is not taught or done, where the handbrake is only used for long stops or parking.
@@lolatmyage I use the handbrake all the time.. it's just how I was taught, and it is a courtesy to the guy behind, especially at night.
Myself, I hate being blinded by people resting on the footbrake at the lights, especially as now stop lights are so very bright, there are so many of them per car, and they are right up there at eyelevel because cars are so much taller now. Oh yes, and I am past 60, and glare becomes much harder to cope with as your eyes get old.
@TheGreatSheikh Agreed, I would not use the hand brake at all here as you're pretty much always on the move and not stopping for more than a few seconds if you used the roundabout correctly
What do the jaggy white lines mean?
Michael Bauers No stopping or parking (on the lines).
The jaggy white lines mean to Give Way to right
+WiltshireByways I think he means at 2:14
+Jordan Taylor They indicate the presence of a zebra crossing and it is an offence to stop or park on the (except to wait for pedestrians using the crossing or as part of traffic queues).
My guess is in this instance they mean do whatever the heck you want, say your prayers and take your chances through here, like everyone else does!
A comedy podcast sent me here. (They were not making fun of your roundabout.)
This would make for a nice parking lot.
Car park you mean
You need to have a PhD to make your way through that roundabout
Nathan Boyd we should remake this? what you saying?
Why the hell is so complicated? Shall simply switch to the traffic light there!
Who is the tormented mind that created that awful thing ???
How many people died traped in this british version of hell ?
Well UK roundabouts are an unpleasant experience for anyone who learnt to drive on right... (and I assume it would be the same for any British coming to Europe) but that... it's a kind of revenge or something...
I don't know what the inhabitants of Swindon have done to the guy that designed that thing... but it surely wasn't nice :-) :-)
0:50
Aaaaaaand already spent longer waiting than a stoplight.
No.
Why not have just one big one
after wathcing that i can say that i undertood nothing
I went around the magic round about to day haha
Why :(
Looks fine, don't know what all the fuss is about.
sure i can hear football fans 2:22
Yeah, you can, just.
how do you not get lost in there though
There are plenty of advance warning signs to let drivers know which way they need to go.
By...being able to see your destination?
I see. He went the pretty way!
About 2 minutes being in a so-called "magic" roundabout, I'd rather it was an intersection with signals
Yes, it's a lot harder when the wheel is on the wrong side - Many people don't understand. I borrow a friend's LHD French 604 GTi sometimes which is easy because it's automatic. I had a LHD manual Fiat Grand Punto hire car in Spain a couple of years ago and found it difficult changing gears with my right hand - I must have looked like a learner driver at times!
This roundabout is confusing it makes me don't want to drive on it
I think it's pretty simple you just yield to the right.
the video should have been about, driving about a roundabout.
Yeah I'm only here for two weeks and I already had an accident 'cause I didn't see a car coming in front of me and turning on his right... It was hidden by my windshield right frame...
I guess I would have problems changing gears w/ my left hand.
None LHD or RHD is better than the other. But it'is really too bad that we don't all drive on the same side (whether one it is) it would really ease the thing for everyone ;-) ;-)
Yeah, no.
lets all drive in the middle :D (im just joking)
Nightmare
That is insane! Whomever the road planners were should be fired and imprisoned!
For making a well functioning junction with hardly any accidents and a brilliant amount of traffic flow? Look into it more man, this roundabout is brilliant!
Hemel Hempstead has 6 roundabouts on 1 roundabout ...its the real magic roundabout lolol
It's a great design, but was built a year after this one.
Wtf did I just watch. They should put some restrictions for viewers. Especially learner drivers like me. Damn
And it does only work in theory ... how the fuck you want rotate on these small roundabouts
Whoever designed that was on drugs
Ummmm no. Too confusing!!!
What a stupid ducking idea