🇺🇸 American Driving Phrases Brits Don't Understand! 🇬🇧
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- We discovered a number of driving and road phrases that Americans have which are different to Brits!
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We say curb!
Also, we call it turn signals, haven't heard the term blinkers in years and years!
Asphalt
1:47 it’s so part of the American and Canadian vocabulary even though it’s really formal in other situations we know what the word means. I’m Canada and perhaps the states the sign might be blank. I don’t know if that happens in the UK. In Quebec and maybe New Brunswick too the sign would say CÉDEZ which means “yield!” “Cede!” And “give up [something]”
2:30 yeah because a flyover is just a plane ride over to something lol
We don't hire a car in the US we rent a car. Hiring a car means having a driver pick you up.
Even then I rarely hear hiring said.
you hire a person or rent a machine.
The Amish often hire a car.
Or hire a driverless/self driving car 🤖 🚙
@@dalesplitstone6276 when they do, they usually hire a driver to go along with it.
I have NEVER heard anyone in the US call a clutch a "foot lever". Also, tarmac = asphalt in the US.
Only time I heard tarmac in America is in reference to Airports.
Tarmac isn’t actually used not even for airports because pilots do t actually say tarmac it’s a runway taxiway etc.
Clutch in the USA.
Blacktop
Yeah- clutch is the only thing I’ve ever heard. Also, I’ve only ever heard elderly people call turn signals blinkers.
I drive a manual and the extra pedal is the clutch. We can also say stick shift, but we also use manual in the USA. I have never heard it called a "foot lever" and I've driven manuals my entire adult life.
Yep. Never heard of a foot lever.
We also call it a standard shift…
@@homecarecomputer Back in the 60's and 70's, 'Standard Transmission' meant a 3-speed.
No one in the U.S. calls a clutch a "Foot lever". And we call it a Curb. We honk the horn. We call tarmac "pavement" or "asphalt". Tarmac is usually used for airports where the planes taxi about.
I've never heard anyone call a clutch a "foot lever" in the US. I've always heard it called a clutch.
I've never heard of the clutch called the foot lever. It's always been called the "clutch" in the U.S. as well.
I am seventy eight and all I heard and said was clutch.
To us, "petrol" would be short for "petroleum", which is usually referring to unrefined oil.
Yes petroleum is often used to describe crude oil and synthetic compounds are generally referred to as petrochemicals.
I also wonder if the fact that gasoline being refined, doesn't itself burn. Mist is injected into the engine and the vapor/mist is burned so literally the "gas" that is evaporated not the liquid itself.
just a thought
I’ve always called them roundabouts. And everyone I know calls them that. We also say sidewalk. Pavement refers to any paved area, including the road.
We also say signal.
No one says foot lever.
We also call them curbs.
We also call large trucks 18 wheelers or tractor trailers.
We usually say asphalt for what the road is made of. Tarmac is usually used to refer to the runway planes take off from.
I think she couldn't find "curb" because they spell it kerb.
We use the same word just spell it differently. Tarmac is usually only referring to a runway at an airport.
And pavement is any driving surface that is covered in asphalt or concrete, it can be a driveway, road or a street.
As in a paved road or paved driveway to contrast it from a dirt, gravel or brick surface.
Normally streets are paved with tar asphalt, but better highways and city streets are made out of more sturdy and permanent concrete.
Strangely, I've never heard a highway referred to as pavement.. definitely paved highways will be listed on a map but pavement seems to imply more city streets and roads.
@@Jack_Stafford highways are referred to as pavement when you get a speeding ticket and the court reduces it to “parking on the pavement.”
Kira I wonder if roundabouts and tarmac definition in the us reflect differences in regional dialects!
We say blinkers in the South
yep, we have "traffic circles" in NYC, and I think Boston but they have different rules-of-the-road to roundabouts.
I think the US wins the Windshield Windscreen debate. When I think of a screen I think of screens on a window at your house and they definitely allow wind through as whereas a shield quite literally keeps wind out.
Useless as a screen door in a submarine.
exactly! Yes, the US definitely wins that one!
I guess you guys just need to learn English.
I'm not sure where you got "foot lever" from. I've never heard that in my life. In the US, we say clutch as well.
Yep
I'm in Texas. I personally have never heard "traffic circle." I've only heard them called and have called them roundabouts.
In the northeast traffic circle is more common because they tried them decades ago and they are less functional than modern roundabouts. In US urban planning there are actual differences between the two but for the general public they are seen as the same thing.
@@grahamparks1645 Thank you! I wasn't aware of that. 😊
Same
Northeast US here, we can call them traffic circles but we just built two new ones and they’re called “roundabouts” on the signs warning people that they are approaching newly built roundabouts so slow down. Our traffic circle was about 4x bigger than the new roundabouts. The massive traffic circles were so goddamn dangerous! 😂
when an official or mayor is cutting the ribbon opening up one - they would probably call it a 'traffic circle'... but to everyone else..it's a roundabout
The term "roundabout" is used more often than "traffic circle" in colloquial speech. Roundabouts are actually becoming more and more common in the U. S. Fun fact, the city of Carmel, Indiana (affluent, northern suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana) has the bragging rights of having the most roundabouts in any American city. As a driving instructor, I actually enjoy roundabouts. Studies have shown that they save money and gas as they keep the traffic flowing in comparison to the dreaded wait at a traffic light.
At least they haven't run across a double diverging diamond intersection, mostly used Where's there is a crossroads with many people exiting.. commonly this is a bridge crossing where you drive on the opposite of normal side of the road in the center portion
A circle is larger than a roundabout. Roundabouts are utilitarian, while circles can enclose a park with pedestrian bridges allowing access to the enclosed park.
In New England roundabouts are called rotaries
Some of the designers of traffic flow need not have graduated school, some of these systems not only add miles and time, but flat out confusing the general public.
And here in the US traffic lights on the big, busy roads are timed such that you might have to wait up to *3 minutes* at a red light for it to turn green. I much prefer rotaries and roundabouts
"Hazard lights" is US also. And US is "curb" while UK is "kerb", pronounced the same way. I think in the US we'd say "asphalt", since we use "tarmac" only for airport paving. Anyway, I loved the video!
asphalt and tarmac are actually brand names for almost but not quiet the same stuff. but tarmac has come to be synonymous with airport surface.
@@kenbrown2808 so what is it actually called? Pavement? Refined tar?
I've only heard them called hazards
I have heard a paved race track referred to as a tarmac.
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 Pavement. Also black top. My wife loves driving on fresh black top.
in the US (northeastern Ohio to be specific) we use "Circle" and roundabout. I've only heard of tarmac being used for for the pavement/cement used on the airport runway.
oh right, the airport! I knew I'd heard of tarmac, but couldn't think of what it was!
Also true for SW Ohio or anywhere in Ohio. As I kid I heard the term traffic circle for very large round intersections in D.C.
Instead of using the word tarmac, we use the word asphalt or pavement…
Same in NC
No one calls the triangle button lights "emergency blinkers" that I've ever heard. We call them "hazard lights." or sometimes "hazard flashers". As in the phrase, "You're stopped on the side of the road, so turn on your hazard lights".
We never call them blinkers in the Great Lakes states. Never. They are "Turn Signals".
In my 53 years hear in Ohio. I've rarely ever hear anyone call them blinkers. It's always turn signals.
@@4freebird69 Ohio here also
They're blinkers in jersey lol
@@bflandragon90 They’re blinkers in the West!
Same in California.
*Technically the correct term is "Gasoline" by definition.* Petrol is just a word meaning a "liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that is present in certain rock strata that can be extracted and refined to produce fuels such as Gasoline, Kerosene, and Diesel". So Petrol is nothing more than just a broad word for Petroleum. Petroleum however is not Gasoline like I said. Petroleum has to be refined and processed to become Gasoline, Motor oil, Grease, Kerosene, Diesel etc..
*Also a fun fact:* U.S. and Canadian octane is just as high as octane found in UK Gasoline. We just use a slightly different method for determining octane in North American fuels. 😉
Aka...U.S. 93 octane Premium Gasoline = 99 UK octane. Like Tesco Momentum. 😋
The More You Know: 😁🌈
Where I live they are replacing a lot of 4 way stops with roundabouts.
Yes, we call them roundabouts too 😊
Using "petrol" has always annoyed me. Gasoline is derived from distilling petroleum and it is what you put in a internal combustion engine to run. Saying "petrol" is just short for petroleum but you don't put petroleum in your engine.
Thank you for that! I agree with you 100%!
This was too funny!! 😂 A few things - windscreen seems silly to us because a screen is a mesh panel in our home doors, so that sure wouldn’t protect anyone! We do also call them turn signals, not just blinkers; blinkers is dumb. We also do use hazards in the US, very common, and we also say curb, there’s nothing else for that. We call our hubcaps “rims” these days, and we call the black material on our roads literally “blacktop”. A tarmac is the runway a plane travels on before takeoff. So, all in all, love the terms, so funny to hear the different UK ones. You guys are the best, keep ‘em coming! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hubcaps go over the rims. The rim is what bolts onto the axle. I don't think modern cars use hubcaps anymore.
Hubcaps & rims are two different things. The rim is the actual wheel that the tire is one. The hubcap is the outter plastic decorative panel put over the rim. Depending on the style not all cars/rims have Hubcaps. Also, where are you from saying blacktop? Yes that's a name for it, but definitely not the natural & common word. Asphalt is the normal American name for the tar material used to pave roads.
@@3DJapan yes.. a lot of cars still have hubcaps & the bolts you refer to are called lug nuts.
I have heard women refer to them as blinkers, but never men.
@@dalesplitstone6276 I'm a woman. I'd NEVER say blinker. That's so cringe.
the curb in the US is called the curb. Most early cars had travel trunks fastened to the rails on the back of the car with straps. The trunk was separate from the interior of the car. Pavement is the road surface normally made of concrete or asphalt but could be bricks in older parts of cities and towns. Roads can be dirt, gravel, pea gravel, asphalt or concrete construction. In the 20s some roads were made of wooden planks and called plank roads.
Roads can be county, city, state, US routes, freeways and tollways. Usually freeways and tollways have limited access and minimum and maximum speed limits. Freeways in my area allow access for farm equipment.
They spell it kerb in the UK.
Throughways also have limited access. Also, a parkway is a landscaped thoroughfare, usually through a park. A tollway can also be a turnpike.
Never heard anyone call a clutch a "foot lever"
When we're indicating a turn, it's called a "turn signal." "Blinkers" is what you use in an emergency. Americans also call "stick shift" "manual." Americans say "clutch." I've never heard "foot lever" in my entire life.
Illinois/ Missouri they are called blinkers. The emergency lights are hazard lights or some even say emergency lights .
It isn't universally the same across the country. In New England, turn signal = "blinkah" . Hazards = "flashahs" .
We call it a clutch. Have never heard of foot lever.😂
Foot lever?? LOL! Never heard that here in the U.S. It's called a clutch, and we don't only call it a stick shift. We use "manual", "stick", and I've sometimes called it a 5-speed, even though having a manual transmission doesn't necessarily make it a 5-speed.
I've never heard of a foot lever. In Pennsylvania, at least, we say clutch, as well. We also say hazard lights or blinkers for hazard lights. What you call indicators we call turn signals. We also say curb, hub caps, beater instead of banger, and tar or blacktop for tarmac.
Hi Joel and Lia! I've lived in Massachusetts and Vermont all of my life. We also call roundabouts "rotaries" and we use the words "turn signals" or "directionals".
directionals??
In Nh we say the same
I've never heard rotary or directional. Rotary makes me think of an old phone.
@@nsbioy your turn signals
@@3DJapan , when I did driving school in late 90’s in the driving handbook signals were called directionals .
Joel's imitation of the car horn he has and the one he would like was very funny. 😆
I have lived in the US my whole life and call them "Hazard lights" as well.
I think wherever they got their information it was wrong. I haven't heard or used most of these and I've never really left the US.
A freeway is the big road that you can only access via an onramp and exit via offramp. A highway is big road but can be accessed via connecting streets/intersections.
We call the pedal a “clutch” in America. We also call cars manual or just stick.
I have always used the term clutch, because the clutch in the transmission is what you are engaging.
'Put the peddle to the metal' is how I learned 'put your foot down.'
You guys don't win 'windscreen' at all. Screens have holes that let the wind in 'windshield' actually shield you from the wind. 😘 Its all about perspective, guys.
I call them hazard lights and some people us some of the things, like indicator lights, round abouts and manual or sticks shift and clutch.
I was totally impressed with Joels driving skills over here. Just the driving on the other side of the road would be too much of a mind bender for me, let alone all the different signs...like your version of the yield sign.
You must mean 'put the pedal to the metal' - 'peddle' means sell...
Windscreens are exactly the same as windshields. No holes, no wind. Just different names for the same thing.
Thanks so much for the correction and schooling on the meanings and spelling of words. So thoughtful of you.
@@Jen-zz7nv And it’s not ‘sticks shift’. Easily triggered?
@@loveisall5520 You are right! they defiantly do not win "windscreen".
Lol, where do you get your info?
We call it round about as well.
A screen in the states refers to the mesh piece that keeps something in or out (like a window screen). So, wind screen would imply it's a mesh piece and not solid glass.
We call them hazards as well...
We call it the clutch as well...
We say "standard or automatic"...
We say "honk the horn" and "blacktop"...
I have never heard a clutch called a foot lever in the US.
Curb=curb,
Tarmac = Asphalt or pavement.
Hey Lia and Joel! This video is so much fun!🤗 💝 So a couple of things… we do call it a clutch and we do call it the curb and we do call the hazard triangle your hazard lights! We share those terms!!!❤️❤️❤️
I believe a highway can have roads that cross it at a perpendicular angle (or near perpendicular angle). In other words, traffic can merge into a highway from a stop sign or a stop light (and as a through passenger, you may be forced to stop at a light on a highway). These are generally more rural throughways where rural roads cross the highway, and you definitely have to be more aware of merging traffic. A freeway is where there are no crossing roads like that. Traffic can only merge in from a lane where they allow the traffic to get up to speed before they are forced to merge into traffic. Freeways would never have a stop sign or stop light to impede your way.
My understanding of “freeway” is that it’s a local California term for US highways which, as they are federally funded “ can not have tolls. All freeways in California are sections of interstates
Before cars a highway was a road that was raised up to let the rain wash away to the sides. I'm not sure if treat still holds up today.
Thank you!
Here go Chris' defintions.
1. Road - A paved or unpaved passage usually two lanes. Counties (which are administrative subdivisions of the states) built the first dirt, then gravel, then paved roads. Today you will see these roads designated as CRs (Country Roads) on maps. They are usually quite small compared to the larger roads and only locals tend to travel them as short cuts. Postal roads preceded them but were mostly for horse travel, carriages, wagons, and foot traffic before the automobile.
2. Street - A road that is usually paved with concrete or asphalt within a city with a given name like First Street or Elm Street that extends for part of a distance through a town or city and along which people live and businesses exist. Streets are usually two lanes or more but the lanes are narrow and easilt crossed on foot. They are not usually more than 4 lanes. Streets tend to run perpendicular to Avenues.
3. Avenues - A wider street, a boulevard that tends to be straighter than a street and move more traffic more quickly but still not at high speed.
4. Highway - A two lane or larger road that moves people out of dense areas. Highways are meant for more rapid transportation than a street and have higher speed limits.
a. State Highway - A highway built and maintained by a given state.
b. US Highway - A highway that preceded the Interstate highways way went across state lines. The Famous Route 66 was a US highway and extended from Chicago to L.A. These were usually built by the national (federal) government and maintained in partnership between the US and State governments.
c. Interstate Highways - Superhighways for higher speed built as part of the interstate highway act beginning in the 1950s.
d. Freeway - A large high speed highway near a large urban area designed to get you from one side of the city to the other rapidly. Unfortuantely they are often clogged as they invite more cars than the freeways can handle. L.A. is famous for it's freeways and their congestion.
So is it called a parkway because there is so much traffic that you often must park and wait? CR is county rd right?
When I lived in Southeast Wisconsin, I was surprised by the use of county rounds which are designated with letters. In Michigan, county roads aren't really used much.
How about definition of a boulevard: in the USA it's like a parkway, limited access, and traffic signals, no residential or business property access, commercial trucks are usually prohibited as well.
County roads indicators vary from state to state, in Iowa, it will say the county name and a 3 character alphanumeric (usually 1 is a letter) in Missouri its a simple one or two letters in a box on the sign. But 0A is one, probably due to running out of other combinations, most if the time if it's two letters they are identical. Texas it was usually a Farm To Market road abbreviated F.M. like F.M.1360 near Houston, I don't recall too much around Dallas besides Loop 12, and a highway heading to Ft. Worth. Florida had a A1A in Key West
The Interstate (freeway) system actually goes across our entire country and links all major population centers. There is limited access and higher speeds on most freeways. There is toll on some of them. This interstate highway system was begun in the 1950s and was modeled after the German Autobahn.
@@americaneclectic not ALL population centers [i cant drive to maui, to Miami on ONE INTERSTATE, nor to Anchorage AK.] , and not all interstates intersect at juncture, Carlisle PA for example, you have to get off the turnpike which is a interstate, traveling at least a mile on a srate highway filled with businesses on both sides, to head either north or south on the next interstate. Interstates choose some awkward tangents that add mileage to a trip, at some expense of speed in some cases
There are conflicts on which state had the first turnpike, Kansas or Pennsylvania, following the definition of where you pay a toll for travel between two specific exits, regardless of its status upon completion as it stands today.
Trivia note: toll roads do not receive federal funding to create or maintain, at one time it was whispered no new toll roads would be approved, but that got lobbied under some rock somewhere. Japan has most of their highway system on a electronic toll system, you pay a entry fee, and a per mile fee, then exit. The garden state parkway in NJ was like the Oklahoma turnpike to some extent, you stopped every so often to pay a toll. Oklahoma has changed to all electronic tolling, the GSP on the other hand still has the coin baskets to collect tolls from motorists who do not participate in EZ-Pass, where they drive through at a specific speed.
I'm in Arkansas (the South) and we say curb for that rounded thing and clutch for a stick shift. 😊 We say honk the horn and we call traffic circles roundabouts. Tarmac is either asphalt or pavement for us and the strip that an airplane takes off from is called a tarmac. Freeway and highway is the same thing, it just depends on what you want to say that day lol.
Lia: "It's only shielding wind."
USA: "That's why we call it a *windshield*."
A fly-over in the US is a literal fly-over. Jets flying over the Superbowl, or a sporting event, or political event. The Blue Angels did a fly-over my mother's house. If I heard that term, I'd look in the sky. :)
Or the fly over states for elections.which are all the states between New York and California lol.
Freeway is more west coast lingo while highway is more east coast. I live in the northeast and have never used the word freeway. I call a roundabout a traffic circle. In Massachusetts, it's called a rotary. I never say blinkers. It's a turn signal.
you're th first sensible person I've seen here! ;)
Lingo?😂
Freeways mean no tolls, since tools are common in the northeast it makes sense they are not called a Freeways.
We call them round-about where I'm from. We (mostly in the south) call freeways "interstates."
I'd say more folks say 'turn signal' than 'blinker.'
And it's hazard lights for us, too.
We stay stick shift in America or manual interchangeably. Also we 100% say Hazard in America. Lastly we stay turn signal, signal or blinker interchangeably.
I live in Oregon and we have round-abouts and that's what we call them. I've always called them turn signals an we interchange manual or stick shift. We have curbs here.
That’s what you call them. I’m a native and have always called them traffic circles. If you mean we use ‘manual’ and ‘stick shift’ interchangeably, of course everyone would understand. However, I would contend most Oregonians under 50 would say manual shift, not stick shift.
I've always called blinkers "turn signals" and the triangle button "hazards". I also call it a roundabout.
In Massachusetts (New England) we call a traffic circle a "Rotary". A road that was paved with Asphalt is called "Black Top". Telling your driver to speed up "Step -On-It", or "Put your foot in it".
Love the topic you two! I would of thought a bonnet would be the cute name of a convertible top in the UK.
Freeways are "free" of stops and have exit and entrance ramps. Highways can have intersections and some traffic signals. Turnpikes are similar to a freeway, but they are usually toll roads, so they are not-so "free" ways. Interstates are freeways that travel through several states.
Trunks were once an actual trunk that was mounted over the rear bumper of a car. Google some of the antique cars from the 20's - 30's.
Turn signals are a common term in the U.S. Curbs are the same here, the raised edge from street to sidewalk (pavement).
Clutch is the transmission part that disengages the gears, and the pedal will disengage the clutch. Stick or stick-shift refers to the stick or lever coming out of the floor used to shift (change) the gears. Manual is also a term used in the US, 5-speed or 6-speed manual trans...
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There are almost no freeways on the east coast. I dont' know where the geographic division is.
In the Midwest, we call them Expressways.
@@justmeiniowa 30% seems like a lot! 😢
@@shawnmcx482 Good catch. In Detroit, both expressways and freeways are used, but freeway is what they are named.
@@ruthvarley4284 If you buy them coffee they get the whole kit and caboodle. see link in their link
I'm from the Midwest US, and for Manual vs Automatic Transmissions. Term I use most for a Manual or Stick Shift is '5 Speed', seeing how most personally owned cars/trucks have 5 gears (1-5 + Reverse). As for the 3rd pedal, I've personally never heard it called or referred to anything other than 'a clutch' or 'the clutch'. Although 3 Speed Manual Transmissions were popular in the 1960's-1980's in America. These were most commonly a 'column shift' meaning the 'stick shifter' was mounted on the Steering Wheel column, and sometimes were called '3 on a tree'.
Thanks!
And 4 speeds were more commonly floor shifters, called "4 on the floor".
@@dougbrowning82 I didn't have much experience with any 4 speeds. my mom had an old '72 Nova 3 speed, and an old work truck 3 speed. just no 4 speeds, sure those were fun to drive.
I never drove one with gears on the tree, my uncle drove us somewhere in a old car for the time, which had one. Personally I HAVE driven a stick shift many miles of my driving history, and sadly the USA is reverting to Automatc on all new vehicles, although Hyundai has one manual transmission model.
I should add, I prefer manual transmission vehicles, you have better control. I even have driven one frequently into NYC via the Holland Tunnel, in stop and go traffic. I had one hand-me-down vehicle need a new clutch, but after that got many miles use of it. I sold it about 12 years ago, as the climate control system was messed up, no AC, and you couldn't defrost the windows or get heat, the control was a wire in a tube and something was jacked up with the plenums..
I miss that truck, at one time a neighbor surprised me wanting to go for a ride, he directed me into a muffler shop and bought me glass packs. The truck was actually quieter, other neighbors probably complained LOL.
it was fun driving that truck in Dallas, everyone had a new truck, mine was at least 20 years old and everyone was looking and waves S I stopped for a light. I sold it for a song as the guy claimed he needed it to work his brother's farm in Iowa while his brother was on active duty overseas, the guy actually was driving by, saw me and asked to buy it, no signs or anything.
The part that connects the drive shaft to the transmission is called the clutch. That's why we call the pedal that operates it the "clutch", because it operates the clutch mechanism.
I don’t use the word blinker but instead say “turn signal.” Blinker was something I only ever heard on tv. 😆
"when the rubber meets the road" is not a driving term. it is a driving allegory. it basically means "when things are actually happening." like "we expect things to go according to plan, but when the rubber meets the road, things will probably go pear shaped."
synonyms to "put your foot down" are, "hammer down, step on it, gas it, full throttle, open it up," and more. however, "put your foot down" also refers to not letting someone else tell you to do something. like if someone was going to push you on a sledge, but you put your foot down to stop it.
Pedal to the metal.
Led foot
Put the pedal to the metal
@@Ryan-du9qb lead foot
Sometimes I think the yield sign in the US is probably the most overlooked or misunderstood sign on our roadways. Instead of yielding, people will speed up to try and get in front of you. Maybe they should just put a stop sign there instead. Btw, we also use the term 'roundabout' over here also. We also call the pedal on a manual transmission the 'clutch'. Not sure where you're getting your info from.
Yes, and also, speeding up even though the car merging can do so without slowing traffic, but the oncoming car decides to go up to 75. Traffic engineers set speed limits for a reason and abnormal slowing and speeding increases congestion.
I don't think anyone has tried to get in front of me at a yield. Now when the lane is ending... Every single day people fly past me to jump in front and it really ticks me off.
It should be changed to a "rolling stop" sign. Most drivers understand a rolling stop.
Only an idiot from the Midwest would want a damn stop sign. No wonder they don't know how to merge.
The first car trunks were actual travel trunks that were attached to rear end of automobiles. The industry started building them and the term just stuck. Gasoline was a one time a brand name that was to distinguish it from kerosine. Semi is short for SEMI TRACTOR TRAILER, descriptive but overly wordy. When we hear the word Tarmac it is usually at an airport where the plane take off or land.
Love this video format, glad you guys are back
THREE COUNT RULE for driving a car (behind someone else) giving you MORE REACTION TIME in case you need it. I came across this driving rule years ago from an article that was originally written by the military. It's SAFER and easier to just remember to COUNT your TIME between you and the car in front of you. THREE count for DRY normal weather and DOUBLE count time for RAIN or SNOW. --- (HOW) Use a LANDMARK that the car ahead of you has just passed and count a SLOW 1 2 3 seconds (and if it takes you a count of 3 OR MORE to reach the same landmark then you are at a SAFE position) -- The landmark could be a Stop Sign or a Tree Etc -- It becomes a safety habit and second nature. If you are too close then just slow down and back off a bit.
My driving instructor always said to rememeber "Only a fool breaks the 3 second rule".
I've also heard that you should have a car's length for every 10 mph between you and the car in front of you. Obviously no one follows this on the highway anymore 😂
@@katevandenbrink4078 Same. I've never heard of the three count/second rule, but I grew up with the car-length-per-10-mph (& it's even in the manual for Mississippi -- that's tripped up a few new drivers I've known).
I’m American and I’ve always heard the term roundabout… never ever heard traffic circle 😅🤷🏻♀️
I guess you’ve never been to New Jersey . The ones by me are the Somerville Circle and there are three circles in Flemington
@@amj4 oh wow! No, never been to New Jersey unfortunately, maybe someday 😅 I’m from the western side.. California & Utah.
The "boot" or boot locker dates back to 18th century horse-drawn carriages where the coachman sat on a chest, which was used to store, among other things, his boots.
The "trunk" of a car dates back to early automobiles which had provisions for mounting an external trunk to store items needed on that particular excursion.
What!!! I've never heard it called a "foot lever". It's a "clutch" or "clutch pedal" because when you push it, the clutch in the transmission is disengaged from the drive train.
There is no one way to name them in the U.S. As a young girl in the early 1960s in New York, I remember driving upstate and going around HAWTHORNE CIRCLE. In Manhattan, we have COLUMBUS CIRCLE. Recently, in Georgia, our area started constructing ROUNDABOUTS. Not only that, but you can go into any neighborhood in the northern or southern regions of the U.S., and you will find STREETS, ROADS, LANES, DRIVES, AVENUES, ETC. They’re all the same - I guess it reduces the number of street names we have to think about. In one area, you can have a Peachtree Road, Peachtree Street, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Boulevard, Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Drive, Peachtree Avenue, etc. Sometimes they even intersect with one another. English is a wonderful language because we have so many words at our disposal.
They are rotaries in New England!
Yes, there are reasons for the naming conventions of roads, at least in the US. Depending on where you live, avenues run north and south, and streets run east and west. This could be reversed in another part of the country. Boulevards have medians between two directions of traffic. A lane is narrower than a street. They are not all the same and the name helps a person determine where he/she is and what direction he/she is headed. IF one is aware there is a purpose behind why something has a particular name.
Yes! I'm in GA too and seeing more roundabouts. I think it's to stop some of the dangerous 4 way stops we have.
Most of the newer suburbs in N. America have gotten away from the grid system, and now have curved drives. crescents, etc. It keeps out through traffic, and provides more privacy and is quieter.
Based on nothing but an address, I used to be able to get a mental picture of what kind of road I was seeking. Not any longer. Manhattan still uses a grid system, and Avenues run north/south, while Streets run east/west. But where I live now in a suburb of Atlanta, there are countless subdivisions containing streets of all these descriptions. I think they simply run out of names to give them, so they repeat the names with Court, Road, Street, Drive, etc. No sense to how they are named. I live close to a major intersection of 2 highways bearing the same name, but one is called Highway, and other is called Drive.
I wouldn't use that flashing lights signal in the US. I have seen two reasons people flash their headlights.
1. To warn people coming the other direction that there are police with a speed trap.
2. When a large truck passes you on the left, you flash your headlights to signal to them they they have cleared the front of your car and they can pull back in the lane front of you. IT's a courtesy. This seems to be understood by truck drivers all over the US.
Also flash headlights to warn oncoming vehicles of wildlife on the road (Especially deer and moose)
Another reason to flash your headlights is to let someone know they forgot to turn theirs on.
The wind shield stills shields you from wind even when the windows are open. Think of a knight with his shield and arrows are flying at him. All the arrows from in front get blocked.
A highway may or may not be a toll road. A freeway does not have tolls.
I have never heard anyone anywhere call the clutch a "foot lever".
Petro is short for petroleum, which is oil, gasoline is a product of oil. Gasoline is correct.
Highways connect cities/towns and can be anything from two-lane roads to multiple lane divided, limited access highways (ie Interstates, Autobahns). Those can be called by several terms: toll roads are often called turnpikes and toll-free ones are called freeways or expressways or if they loop around a city they may be called some variation of beltway. We do use the term flyover but usually only for freeway interchanges with at least three levels. Traffic circles aren't roundabouts, they function differently and less efficiently. *Some* people call them "blinkers," I learned them as "turn signals." I have never ever ever heard the clutch pedal referred to as a "foot lever" and yes they are manual transmissions. Curbs are curbs and hubcaps are hubcaps here too. Your automotive bangers are beaters here. And our tarmac is asphalt.
Nope.. toll roads are only called turnpikes in certain areas. Everywhere else they're just a toll road.
Hubcaps are hubcaps, but they're just the outer decorative plastic piece. Not all cars have hubcaps. And J&L failed to present a difference between hubcap & rim.
We say curb, clutch, turn signal, hazard light, asphalt or pavement is what roads are made of and a tarmack is on runways for planes. We say roundabout or traffic circle.
We also use "curb" and "signal," and a "banger" is also a really good lay. While eating sausage and listening to hard rock.
1:47 it’s so part of the American and Canadian vocabulary even though it’s really formal in other situations we know what the word means. I’m Canada and perhaps the states the sign might be blank. I don’t know if that happens in the UK. In Quebec and maybe New Brunswick too the sign would say CÉDEZ which means “yield!” “Cede!” And “give up [something]”
A boot is a device to put on the tire to stop you from driving if you have too many tickets
In the UK we call them "Clamps" .. "they''ve clamped my car because i didn't pay for parking". Another thing we use "boot" for on a car is rubber ball joint covers. They are called boots too!
@@joescarecrow Wow - they boot cars in the UK if you don’t pay the parking meter?😂 Here I think you must have a number of unpaid parking violations to warrant a ‘boot’.
The point in the clutch where the motor grabs, I've always heard it called the "friction point"
"Put the pedal to the metal!" is anothet good one.
Freeways are a type of highway...a federal highway...an "interstate highway". Other highways are state highways...they are just called "highways". This really boils down to which governing entity is responsible for maintenance. Fun fact - The Interstate Highway System was developed as a project to easily and quickly move military vehicles across the country...but it's basically like the German autobahn.
We do say "traffic circles", but we also say roundabout.
I like "windshield" better than "windscreen", because it completely shields you from the road wind...whereas windscreen seems to imply that there is a screen like a screen door, which allows air to pass through.
To tell someone to drive fast, we'll typically say "step on it", "floor it", or "put the pedal to the metal".
"Blinker", yes...but more common is "turn signal"...which I think is the most accurate descriptor of what the thing actually does.
"Hazard lights" is the most common term for emergency blinking lights. We don't use them to say hello though. We flash the high beams of our headlights a few times to say hello (more commonly to warn people that they need to pay attention because there's a wreck/cop/road hazard up ahead that they are about to meet).
Nobody calls a clutch a "foot lever"...it's a clutch. I have no idea where that idea came from, because no...just no. lol
I don't know of any specific term we have for "the bite", but I like that term.
I like "zebra crossing" because it's just so charmingly British...and I say that with zero condescension.
We call a curb a curb, and a hub cap...a hub cap.
Typically we say "semi" with a long "I" sound at the end. But we also call them "18 wheelers" or "big rigs". "Semi" with a long "E" at the end is the slight chub of a penis...that point where you feel proud enough to show it off. lol
"Bangers", "beaters", or "jalopy" (which is outdated and his given way to "hoopty").
We "honk" horns...not "hooter"...hooters is a term for the fun part of a woman's chest that was adopted by a chain restaurant where busty women serve mediocre chicken wings. We will say "beep" if it's a smaller car with a wimpy sounding horn.
"Tarmac" is a word we're familiar with, but we call it "asphalt", or less commonly "black top". Oddly enough, for whatever reason, we reserve "tarmac" for the paved areas where airplanes taxi in and out of airports.
I hope/think I've corrected most of your misconceptions. I hope other Americans will comment here with their regional terms, but this seems to me to be the most universal for American terminology.
American here.. I understood highways and freeways to essentially be the same thing, but depending on where you were, you would have to pay a toll on the highway (such as on portions of I-95 and I-80). Thus, if you didn't want to pay the toll, you would take the freeway (or free way).
@@katherinemurphy2762 That's an interesting thought, but it really has nothing to do with tolls. Freeways have exit ramps...that's really the difference.
I'm in western Canada. Here we would call an old, decrepit car a beater, or maybe a rust bucket.
We call multi lane roads where you travel fast highways. Expressways are roads / highways that allow you to travel fast in big cities, eg. Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. I never hear the term "freeway" or "turnpike". There are very few toll highways. The only one I knew about was the Coquihalla Highway in B.C. but I see they no longer charge tolls.
Haha. I have to say I find the British term "hire a car" annoying. Here it's always "rent a car", "car rental place", etc. It all depends on what you're used to.
Lately, I've heard the term "transport truck" for the big trucks with the big trailers. I assume it's the same thing as a semi.
They have been putting in traffic circles here over the past twenty years but there aren't that many. They're very simple because they only have a single lane. Years ago, I went on a trip to Paris and rented a car for one day. Going through the big multilane traffic circles was nerve wracking and I had cars honking at me because I wasn't moving through traffic correctly 😆.
Here we would probably say "honk your horn" instead of "beep your horn".
Wait until you drive in Swindon, U.K., The Magic Roundabout will wreck your nerves, inexperienced people have been known to remain driving in it until they can catch the right exit.
@@Stache987 Haha. If I were ever driving in Swindon, I would have to figure out a route to avoid the Magic Roundabout. Driving on the opposite side of the road from what I'm used to and a complicated roundabout would be a recipe for disaster.
@@grantlink8384 this roundabout was pointed out by a former roommate who until that time spent a few years as a American living and driving in England, I only saw still photos and said why did they compile so many roundabout connected by one, I just couldn't fathom driving it myself, it was all the nerve I had to tackle the tunnel entrance into NYC, off-peak was all I could handle. I had a very large diameter traffic circle north of where I grew up, three directions all trying to get into a ammunition plant for work. When I was stationed in Philly, I'd go over to NJ, I could handle the one I used to pass shopping, but now the US is in such a phase of sticking small ones everywhere, and with visual obstacles built in many.
I live in Northeast Ohio and we also call an old decrepit car a beater or a winter beater. We also call it a rust bucket. This area is known as the rust belt.
@@Stache987 I did look at the Magic Roundabout in Swindon on RUclips and it does look very complicated, with the four mini circles. Maybe if everyone goes slowly, there aren't too many accidents, but people who are very familiar with the roundabout probably don't want to do that. I haven't driven too much in the U.S. and I haven't been there for quite a while. I don't remember seeing roundabouts on my last trip. They probably put them in in the suburbs and not the touristy areas downtown. Yes, driving in Manhattan is not a good idea --- aggressive drivers, double parked delivery trucks, parking on the streets is hard to find, really expensive parking garages. Probably just a matter of time before you get hit by an aggressive driver. One good thing did happen. I was on an expressway in Brooklyn and at one point the road was at a high elevation and I did get a spectacular panoramic of the whole city.
Blinkers are also called Turn Signals and we call it the Clutch Pedal.
Really been enjoying these vernacular exchange vids ya’ll have been doing for quite some time… It might not be brought up that much but a lot of the “American way” of saying things is really different depending on the region since the US is such a large country. For example the Freeway vs Highway (or Expressway) question, they really describe the same kind of thing but different regions interpret them all differently, but mostly its a multi-lane road on which you are traveling at highway speeds (generally 60MPH or more) with on-ramps/off-ramps and no intersection. In most parts of the country “getting on the highway” is getting on one of the numbered parts of the Interstate Highway system, but in California for example its called the Freeway, because its the one that doesn’t have any tolls, some parts of the country freeway/highway are interchangeable, some parts of the country where its more rural “The Highway” is one of the numbered roads that came before the Interstates were built in the 50’s…. Also “roundabouts” are the same in most of the US, but “Traffic Circle” is the more prevalent in the North East. (Also don’t try and circumnavigate your first traffic circle in Florida, because nobody else here knows how to properly use them either and you might die LoL) Someone lied to you “Foot Lever” is not a thing :) Curb is still Curb.. Never heard “Banger” for an abused car, but “Beater” is very common. We call tarmac “asphalt” and tarmac means an airplane runway or ramp… Cheers!
Freeway from my experience is a nickname for an Interstate 🛣 Roadway. A highway is a roadway that usually goes through stretches of open area densely populated. 👍🏽 In my state they are called Roundabouts, back east might have another term. We use curb with a CU not Kerb. We would say “We hit the curb”. Some people use blinkers as a nickname, others do use indicators or turn signals. Tarmac is the pavement where airplanes ✈️ land on. It’s usually mentioned with planes in mind.
We call it the sweet spot when the clutch is in the right position and you are giving it the proper amount of gas to either not stall or spin the wheels.
I've never heard of the clutch being called the foot lever over here at least not in Texas or Louisiana. I've also never heard of it in automotive publications
I think Windshield is probably a better word than windscreen for a car as 'screen' implies it allows some things to pass through it which is not really the case.
Everyone I know in the States calls the triangle button the hazards as well. Our roads are pavement but sidewalks are usually concrete.
I have never heard of a zebra Crossing. Been alive 55 years I've only heard of crosswalks at least here in the south.
And also we say curb here too and we say roundabout. Never heard of the circle thing.
And the black tar on the road is called pavement.... or asphalt
Zebra crossing sounds like a place for Zebras to cross the road
@@nathanmeece9794 yeah somewhere out in Africa on the Serengeti
We call them round abouts in Wisconsin. We have quite a lot of them but they are newer in the last 15 years.
We call them hazards here as well.
We call it a clutch too
A curb We call it a curb
We call a hubcap a hubcap
It’s semi Distinguishing the kind of truck cause it’s called a semi truck
I’ve never heard it called a banger just like a junker
Tarmac is like at an airport. I think it just needs tar here
British and Canadian people just spell it "kerb".
Turn signal (blinker when I was a kid), hazard lights, stick shift or manual, clutch ( I have never ever heard of a foot lever anywhere in the U.S.), cross walk, we call the curb the curb, hubcap, truck or semi depending on the size of the truck, beater for a banger, we beep or honk the horn, blacktop. A tarmac is only at the airport where aircraft park.
A windshield also keeps out bugs and the errant bird or rock. It shields it doesn't screen.
It's turn signals. And a trunk is because back in the day when traveling before suitcases people traveled with actual trunks... horse & carriage & then cars.. the trunk went on the back so it naturally is why we still call the trunk of the car the truck. And we definitely say hazard lights in the US. WTH is a foot lever 🤣🤣🤣 it's a clutch in the US. HONK.. not hoot 😂😂😂
A divided road, usually with 2 or more lanes in each direction, is called a freeway, sometimes an interstate , with limited access consisting of exit or entrance ramps. Highway is a generic term for any road with major traffic, not necessarily a freeway. Some freeways and interstates are also toll roads (I-76, a/k/a Pennsylvania Turnpike), but some states just designate one lane of a freeway as a toll road.
@@petesnyder9790 yes I know what a freeway is, but in the east freeway is just a defined word. No one actually uses the term in speech or thought. Not all toll roads are called turn pikes. Turn pikes usually go very long distances. Toll roads are much much MUCH shorter usually.
A lot of the things you guys thought we say differently, we don't. We say it the SAME exact way as you 😂💀 hubcap, curb, pavement (synonym of sidewalk), roundabout, clutch... lol
I don’t think I have ever heard someone use pavement for sidewalk in the U.S. I would have no idea what they are talking about.
Pavement is a more general term that can refer to roads, sidewalks, parking lots, and even driveways.
@@tracyfrazier7440 Oh? It's pretty common on the West Coast
I've lived on the West Coast all my 58 years, and I've never heard the term "pavement" used as a synonym for sidewalk
@@bibliotekarin Okay, well that's you. Idk what to tell you. I've heard pavement AND sidewalk my entire life. Same with most of the people in my life.
American's also say "put the pedal to the metal."
The idiom "where the rubber meets the road" refers more to facing challenges or someone or something being put to the test.
I didn't see anyone mention jughandles. A jughandle is a ramp or slip road that changes the way traffic turns left at intersections instead of a standard left turn being made. They allow drivers to change directions (left to right) without disruptive stops or U-turns. They are found primarily in the Northeast US , with New Jersey having a high number of them.
No one in the USA use traffic circle. We use round about as well.
Upstate New York here and KC called them traffic circles
THey are traffic circles in DC.
In NJ, they’ve been eliminating traffic circles because they cause a lot of accidents. Traffic lights do take longer but are a little safer.
Do you still have those jughandle turns?
Roundabouts are safer if people use them properly...
@@kates7277 what if they don't use them correctly? I guess they aren't safer then.
@@loosilu Oh, yes!! Lots of jug handles!!
@@kates7277 Yeah, that’s the problem. Many people don’t know how to use them and it creates a lot of problems.
Here in Houston, Texas we call it a Roundabout.
We call them blinkers and hazard lights or flashers.
We say "curb".
We call alloys "rims" and steelies "hubs".
We call trucks "18 Wheelers" or "Big Rigs".
We "honk" our horns.
We call black paving on the road "Blacktop".
Only call the blinkers/turn signals, hazard lights if both are blinking simultaneously
We call the tarmac “blacktop” or “asphalt” in Wisconsin. I think that’s pretty common elsewhere in the country too. Also, we call traffic circles “roundabouts” as well in Wisconsin. I’ve only heard traffic circle used a few times.
Highway = generic motorway
Freeway = Highway usually found on west coast. West coast states generally don't have toll roads. Residents pay annual highway taxes. YOu drive on the road for free, ergo freeway.
Turnpike = usually on the east coast, and they are always toll roads.
Parkway = Found on the east coast. Usually a winding road, two lanes each way with no emergency lane. No trucks allowed.
Interstate = numbered road that is part of the federal Interstate system. These roads are funding by the federal government.
Yup, you got it. Locally : New York Thruway, Long Island Expressway, New Jersey Turnpike, Hutchinson River Parkway, East River Drive. No Freeway ever said anywhere near NYC, nor Pike until you get into Pennsylvania,
The word ‘freeway’ has ZERO to do with tolling. It has EVERYTHING to do with traffic moving freely without stopping. Period. Interstates are freeways. Expressways can be freeways but often are not.
@@pacmanc8103 Freeway did originally referred to freeflow of traffic. But on the west coast highways were called freeways to emphasize that they had no tolls or fees. That term has stuck, highways in the east are generally not called freeways because they do tend to have tolls.
@@jefflewis4 Wrong
@@pacmanc8103 Nope, not wrong !
Blinker depends on what a person heard growing up/ part of the US they're from. Growing up in southern California, most people use signal or turn signal when they want yo make a turn In most DMV ( Depart of Motor vehicles. Foot lever is called a clutch in a manual/stick shift car. I don't think I've ever heard of foot lever for a clutch in a car. A clutch is a clutch. Drivers manuals , the emergency lights on a car would be called hazard lights. If anyone calls them flashers, it's most likey that's a carry over from what they heard growing up on theur household, etc. Tarmac in the US is what planes land and take off on at airport. Although tar is used in paving and maintaining streets , concrete is mixed in with tar and other things that make up what covers streets.
The difference between a freeway and highway is that a freeway is taken between two cities in close proximity to each other or that are within at a 2hr hour drive of each other. A highway is a roadway that connects to several freeways , a highway is taken between two or more cities that're more than 100 miles/ 2hrs apart. For example, if someone was going to San Diego from L.A, they would the 405 and or 5 freeways to San Diego. If someone was driving cross country from Houston, Tx to Tallahassee, Florida they may take interstate 10(which goes east to west from South Carolina to Santa Monica, Ca) and connect to some of Florida's freeways/interstates. That person would probably say they will be hitting the highway given the long distance and time it'll take to get from point a to point b. Highways and freeways can sometimes be nimbered differently and some freeways like interstates 405, 710 , 80, 110, 605 etc are just freeways that are common in Southern and Northern California and most often are just referred to as the 405, 110, 710 etc. Other freeways like interstates 5, 10 15 etc that arteries both within and between states can go by several names. For example within California and specifically SoCal, the 5 is most commonly known as the 5, I-5 , or the Grapevine due to it going through a community in northern L.A. county called Grapevine. I-5 goes through to the interior of Oregon up to Washington St border. i-15 goes through Utah, Nevada( straight through Vegas) and the inlamd empire ( Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) in California. Highway 1 which is the coastal route from San Diego to Seattle is most commonly known as Pacific Coast Highway , Highway 1 or simply PCH.
I-10 goes nowhere near South Carolina. It doesn't even go through Georgia. It starts in Florida & goes west into Alabama & then across the lowest interstate area of the US. And most of America does not say freeway at all. It's just more commonly used out west. Highway & interstate is the commonly used word in the east.
And when talking about road pavement you completely left out the word asphalt. Not all roads are mixed with concrete. Most are just asphalt tops.
8:25 we use the verb “indicate your turn“ and we definitely would say “signal“ like “signal left/right before you reach the intersection“
“ put your signal on” definitely could be heard it’s kind of a little going out of use
8:57 In Canadian French the proper word is « Clignotant » but we often say “Flasheur”
There’s a long story about English calques into our language. If you’re interested I could talk more about it.
This was a fun vid you guys! A highway, I've usually heard as two lane roads, typically long stretches. Interstates are the larger, wider, highways that go from state to state. Around major cities, you could find up to 6 or 8 lanes of traffic all going the same way, depending on how big the city is. I65, which would be Interstate 65 for example, begins in Mobile, Alabama at the Gulf Coast, and goes all the way through, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana. It stops at another body of water near Chicago. These began to be built in 1956 and stretches of them were intended as runways for planes if needed.
Love your channel!! Please visit Boston, Massachusetts…so much like England. Boston roads are not on a grid system, roads today are previous cow paths, more or less. Traffic circles in Boston are called rotaries or rotary in the singular. But like most if USA, verbiage changes from region to region. Rotary, roundabout and traffic circle & highway, interstate and freeway for example are all used in different parts of the country.
Super-fun video! I've always used "indicator" but most Canadians say "signal" or "turn signal"...I also wish we said petrol and zebra crossing :)
we use turn signal in Ohio as well.
You can also say turn signal instead of blinkers… flashers are your brights/high-beams/fog lights on your car