Watch driver use controversial slingshot roundabout method to enrage motorists… before people spot a very obvious flaw
THIS is the moment a driver uses the roundabout slingshot method to beat traffic – before viewers spot an obvious flaw.
TikTok user jobbertok has become known for his slingshot videos, but it seems this time he may not have needed the controversial technique.
Jobber uses the slingshot to beat long roundabout queues.
It involves using the right-hand lane to get onto the roundabout, before driving all the way around and taking what would have been the first exit.
This means he doesn’t have to wait behind all the other cars lined up in the technically correct lane for that exit.
In his latest clip he crowed: “It’s the old roundabout slingshot situation presenting itself.
“Never want to turn down an opportunity to not sit in traffic.
“No sitting a 2mph for a couple of minutes.
“Taking that path of least resistance.”
Most social media commenters saw the funny side.
One wrote: “I actually love doing this and seeing everyone get annoyed.”
Another added: “I do this at roundabouts as well and wonder why no one else does it.”
While the slingshot often provokes fury from other motorists, there is actually nothing in the Highway Code to prevent it as long as you drive safely.
However, one eagle-eyed viewer spotted an issue with this case.
They wrote: “You went round just to exit in the second lane again though.
“[You] could’ve gone first time in that case.”
It seems that Jobber went all the way around the roundabout just to use the second exit rather than the first, which he could legally do from the lane he was already in.
The clip comes after one driver cut 20 minutes off his holiday journey using the slingshot method.
Meanwhile, Jobber slammed other drivers as ‘sheeple’ after overtaking 30 cars at a junction.