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  • #46
    Originally posted by drake
    So a guy is cruising around the rotary with 10 people in a row behind him. He seems another car coming up from a road in front of him. He has to yield and stop him and all 10 cars behind him for that one car?

    If so, I think they need their head examined.
    Yep! Crazy eh?
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    • #47
      Compared to french drive test, americans one (I seen test in Boston & New York) are more easy.

      Since, french drivers are really lunatics ...
      Zobo Ze Warrior
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      Your brain is your worst enemy!

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      • #48

        When I was in Paris a few weeks ago I noticed that most cars, even new ones have at least a couple of dents in them.

        Bloody french drivers
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        ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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        • #49
          I am surprised by this discussion. I thought the US was more integrated than Europe, but there is no problem with licences here. I have a UK licence and I have lived in Germany, France and Switzerland (not even EU) and driven using my UK licence with no problems.

          Arrian: in the UK at least you can sit your test with an Automatic car, but then you are only licenced to drive automatics and are not allowed to drive a manual (stickshift?).

          As for the quality of driving, I have generally found the driving in the US to be quite good. I think this is because people seem less egotistical in cars (lack of a manual gear perhaps?). They seem to drive quite placidly at not much above the speed limit and everything goes smoothly (at least in my experience).

          By contrast, although the European tests are (supposedly) quite hard, poeple seem to forget everything that they have learned as soon as it is over. The French are an absolute nightmare on the roads. They drive so close to your behind that you know that they will hit you if you have to break.

          The Germans aren't much better, and there things are made worse by having autoroutes (freeways) with no speed limit at all. Some of these only have two lanes, with crawling trucks on one lane and on the other you have cars doing 150mph+.

          Driving on US roads is paradise by comparison.

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          • #50
            Americans are horrible tailgaters IMO
            ...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
            ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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            • #51
              Driving on US roads is paradise by comparison.
              Man, it must be god-awful over there, because the only time I consider driving over here to be paradise is when traffic is really light, and I pretty much have an open road in front of me. Living in CT, that doesn't often happen.

              Perhaps we don't have many ego maniacs with sporty little stickshifts, but we have PLENTY of soccer moms driving Lincoln Navigators (there is simply NO justification whatsoever for that vehicle) while on their cell phones and putting on lipstick. I'd rather have the maniacs, frankly.

              -Arrian
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              • #52
                Originally posted by Caligastia
                Correct me if Im wrong,
                I'll be happy to. You're wrong.

                but I think there is a difference between rules for traffic islands in the UK and europe. In the UK those on the roundabout always have the right of way, and in europe those entering always have the right of way.
                That's most certainly not true in Scandinavia, Germany, France or Spain - all countries I've been driving in. It might be true in Holland, where you claim you've seen it, but I think we'll let some of our Dutch friends confirm that before we believe it. The talk of it being the rule in all of Europe is hogwash, of course.
                Last edited by moomin; June 13, 2002, 12:25.
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                • #53
                  Perhaps we don't have many ego maniacs with sporty little stickshifts, but we have PLENTY of soccer moms driving Lincoln Navigators (there is simply NO justification whatsoever for that vehicle) while on their cell phones and putting on lipstick. I'd rather have the maniacs, frankly.

                  Yes I always get a kick out of these supposedly sophisticated wealthy soccer moms driving around big huge, boxy clunky tanks that get 5 miles per gallon. If they only realized how ridiculous they look

                  The Suv trend is so silly. All these commercials of these vehicles climbing up mountains and ****, and you know that 95% of people that buy them wont drive an inch off the pavement.
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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Caligastia
                    Americans are horrible tailgaters IMO
                    Tap on your brakes. That's the way we tell each other to back off.
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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Rogan Josh
                      The French are an absolute nightmare on the roads. They drive so close to your behind that you know that they will hit you if you have to break.
                      It just because you are driving too slow ...
                      I don't like that either. When a guy is driving to close to my rear, I just break hardly in order to show him it is dangereous.
                      Zobo Ze Warrior
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                      Your brain is your worst enemy!

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by drake
                        The Suv trend is so silly. All these commercials of these vehicles climbing up mountains and ****, and you know that 95% of people that buy them wont drive an inch off the pavement.
                        In NYC we need them because the roads are so bad.
                        ...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
                        ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by ZoboZeWarrior
                          When a guy is driving to close to my rear, I just break hardly in order to show him it is dangereous.
                          Which, gentlemen, is why French cars suck. What'd be the point of making them any good in a country where people drive like that anyway?
                          "The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
                          "I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.

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                          • #58
                            People that slam on their brakes in front of people they think are tailing too close are much bigger morons than the tailgaters themself. A tailgater isn't inherently dangerous. Annoying perhaps, but not necessarily a danger.
                            I see the world through bloodshot eyes
                            Streets filled with blood from distant lies.

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                            • #59
                              In NYC we need them because the roads are so bad.
                              Oh please Cal, talking about bad roads...two words, Big Dig.
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                              Streets filled with blood from distant lies.

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                              • #60
                                Big Dig?
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                                ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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