He didn’t invent the roundabout. It was Eugene Henard in France about 30 years prior. He also didn’t invent the stop sign (Harry Jackson). There were also one way streets in England before the US existed.
Reading the Wikipedia it looks like it’s not about the inventions of the individual things, but he utilized them together and potentially further optimized them (round about from 2 lanes to 1 to reduce accidents) and established a rulebook that officers should enforce and the public are expected to know and follow.
I was curious about the claims about Eno so I Googled a bit. Eno actually is responsible for a lot of these ideas being put in use, if not inventing them himself. He basically pioneered the concept of standardized traffic rules.
As for the stop sign, Eno proposed the idea in 1900:
The invention of the roundabout is a bit more complicated. Circular intersections of some kind predated Eno, but they wouldn’t all be considered roundabouts by our definition today.
He didn’t invent the roundabout. It was Eugene Henard in France about 30 years prior. He also didn’t invent the stop sign (Harry Jackson). There were also one way streets in England before the US existed.
Reading the Wikipedia it looks like it’s not about the inventions of the individual things, but he utilized them together and potentially further optimized them (round about from 2 lanes to 1 to reduce accidents) and established a rulebook that officers should enforce and the public are expected to know and follow.
But you see he reinvented those things in “the US” and thats where the truth is decided amiright?
You can’t reinvent something. It either exists or it doesn’t. and why is the us in quotations?? Are you implying it doesn’t exist or something??
The comments section always lit with the actual truth
I came here, furious, to say all this. What the hell am I supposed to do with all this energy now?
Paces angrily
I don’t think the phrase “today I learned” implies truth. OP just learned lies today. /s
I was curious about the claims about Eno so I Googled a bit. Eno actually is responsible for a lot of these ideas being put in use, if not inventing them himself. He basically pioneered the concept of standardized traffic rules.
As for the stop sign, Eno proposed the idea in 1900:
Harry Jackson created his octagonal sign 14 years later, in 1914:
The invention of the roundabout is a bit more complicated. Circular intersections of some kind predated Eno, but they wouldn’t all be considered roundabouts by our definition today.