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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   PeteCresswell  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
      
   >>> But, in Germany, it seemed *most* people knew the   
   >>> rules of the road! Far more than the Americans seem to.   
      
   >> Even sillier than you usually manage.   
      
   > What do you base that on ?   
      
   Knowing Germans and Germany.   
      
   > When I was in Germany two things were clear - even to me:   
      
   > - Everybody was playing by the same rules   
   > when it came to using turn signals, merging   
   > on to freeways, and yielding the hammer lane.   
      
   > - People were required to take driving lessons   
   > and pass a test before being allowed to drive.   
      
   Hardly unique to Germany.   
      
   And I've just taught a couple of 30ish year olds to drive.   
      
   And just dumped one of them in middle of the state capital   
   CBD outside the main railway station at the traffic lights   
   with me bailing out of at the lights because we were running   
   very late for me to catch the train back. He'd never driven in   
   a state capital before, they learned to drive in a 50K population   
   country town. He got me to drive them in their car to the state   
   capital they were moving to for work. He doesn't even go to   
   bed till after midnight and its an 7 hour trip thru the night   
   to get to the state capital from here, left at midnight.   
      
   He wasn't too fazed when it came to the crunch and drove   
   back into the CBD in the evening to catch up with me.   
   I missed the train by 10 mins because I thought I'd   
   have an hour or so to wander around the main inner   
   city train station and work out where my train was and   
   whether you have to check in like you do with the airlines.   
      
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