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**Ingeborga** · 04-21-2011, 05:35 PM

I thought it was a myth that US drivers licenses don't require manual training??

In the UK you can do an auto only license but you can't drive a manual on it. Over there you can?

To be totally fair, roundabouts baffle a lot of UK drivers as well. Especially this one (and no joke, this bad boy exists in Swindon. You go clockwise around the little ones and anti-clockwise through the big ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_R..._%28Swindon%29

It was constructed in the early 70's so I'm guessing the town planners of the 60's had a very liberal attitude when it came to "bring your LSD to work" days.

Same here, auto' driving tests don't cover manuals* (but I think after a period of time, they may do so?), it was brought in a few years back - one of my friends sat his in a LHD Ford Galaxy station wagon - totally threw the TC who was taking him right from the start, the cop got in on the wrong side...
In the US, and increasingly so in the rest of the world, people can go a lifetime without having to drive a manual car.
When the Magic Roundabout was built, there would have been a lot less cars on the road as well.

*The lines getting blurry now, though, with computer controlled manual 'automatics' and manually controlled automatic transmissions - seems it comes down to if it has a cluch pedal or not.

04-21-2011, 05:35 PM	#50
Ingeborga Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 590 Senior Member	I thought it was a myth that US drivers licenses don't require manual training?? In the UK you can do an auto only license but you can't drive a manual on it. Over there you can? To be totally fair, roundabouts baffle a lot of UK drivers as well. Especially this one (and no joke, this bad boy exists in Swindon. You go clockwise around the little ones and anti-clockwise through the big ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_R..._%28Swindon%29 It was constructed in the early 70's so I'm guessing the town planners of the 60's had a very liberal attitude when it came to "bring your LSD to work" days. Same here, auto' driving tests don't cover manuals* (but I think after a period of time, they may do so?), it was brought in a few years back - one of my friends sat his in a LHD Ford Galaxy station wagon - totally threw the TC who was taking him right from the start, the cop got in on the wrong side... In the US, and increasingly so in the rest of the world, people can go a lifetime without having to drive a manual car. When the Magic Roundabout was built, there would have been a lot less cars on the road as well. *The lines getting blurry now, though, with computer controlled manual 'automatics' and manually controlled automatic transmissions - seems it comes down to if it has a cluch pedal or not.
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