Driver's 'roundabout slingshot' method to beat traffic has people divided over whether it should be legal

This driver’s ‘roundabout slingshot‘ method to beat traffic has people divided over whether it should be legal or if it’s even a particularly good idea.

Some might see the method as sneaky, using a turning circle to disadvantage others while shaving some serious time off your commute, while others have found it cunning and do it themselves.

The name ’roundabout slingshot’ has been assigned to the maneuver, but you may find that you’ve already been doing it and you didn’t know the name.

There’s only one issue – if everyone started doing it all at once, there would be even longer and more complicated lines, thus completely ruining the exciting life hack.

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The ’roundabout slingshot’ will be your new life hack to beat traffic

Have you ever heard about the secret life hack driving maneuver called the ’roundabout slingshot’?

You may have been doing it already to shave some precious minutes off your commute, and you didn’t even realize that it’s a tried and tested traffic-beating life hack.

Named by TikToker Jobber, the ’roundabout slingshot’ is a process he uses when driving on the roads in the UK.

Rather than waiting in the left-hand lane of the turning circle, he does something differently.

He heads down the empty right-hand lane of the roundabout and goes all the way around it, then turns off at the exit he always wanted to go down.

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Roundabout slingshot

♬ original sound – Jobber 🐢

It saves minutes upon minutes

Whenever the content creator does this maneuver on busy roundabouts, he saves himself 12 minutes on average on his commute.

While some people hail this as the life hack created to beat the line and exit the roundabout before everyone else, some people think it’s sneaky.

In the TikToker’s original video explaining it, some commenters wrote that it was a ‘great idea’, with one saying it was their ‘favorite thing to do’.

However, some people didn’t see it as cunning, saying that if everyone started doing it, it would just block traffic in new ways, and it could ‘stop traffic’ at other junctions.

Whether you find it sneaky or cunning, there’s no doubt that shaving some time off your commute to work in the morning is helpful.

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