German vs. American Drivers - A Trip Report and Call to Arms

[cianosheehan]

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Explosion testing

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Is that as cool a job as it sounds?!

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Explosion testing

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Is that as cool a job as it sounds?!

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is any job as cool as it sounds?

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Explosion testing

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Is that as cool a job as it sounds?!

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is any job as cool as it sounds?

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Pro tourney donk!

[Triumph36]

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Anyone who disagrees with By-Tor obviously has not spent a significant amount of time driving in California. There are huge stretches of freeways where there's an exit every half mile, and the onramps are usually full of cars so you have to merge into the middle lane to let them in. Do you really think people should merge into the middle lane and back again once a minute or so? That's just retarded.

As for traffic on rural interstates, I grew up in northern Indiana and I thought it was fine. Haven't driven on the highways in other states enough to know whether it's any different.

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Traffic would still be much smoother if people stayed in the middle lane/right lane as their normal lane and used the left lane as a passing lane. As it is now, you have the middle lane being the 'slow lane', and people passing on either side of it - and sometimes the left lane slows down 'cause some retard doesn't know it's a passing lane.

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Another reason might be that you only get your driving license in germany after two exams and around 30 hours on the road with a teacher who constantly tells you which rules to follow (e. g. staying in the right lane of a highway).

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Yeah, I'm from Sweden and we have approximately the same system. I've gotten the impression from watching reality shows etc. that getting a driver's license in USA is incredibly easy.

[Los Feliz Slim]

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one thing i don't understand is why the people strolling along in the left lane don't just move over and then follow the so called "maniacs." i am usually cruising at 10-20 over but anytime i see someone coming faster i immediately let them past and now have a "shield" to go 20-30 over in the middle lane passing when i need to.

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ah, the buffer...

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I call that the Pick and Roll.

[By-Tor]

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Anyone who disagrees with By-Tor obviously has not spent a significant amount of time driving in California. There are huge stretches of freeways where there's an exit every half mile, and the onramps are usually full of cars so you have to merge into the middle lane to let them in. Do you really think people should merge into the middle lane and back again once a minute or so? That's just retarded.

As for traffic on rural interstates, I grew up in northern Indiana and I thought it was fine. Haven't driven on the highways in other states enough to know whether it's any different.

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Traffic would still be much smoother if people stayed in the middle lane/right lane as their normal lane and used the left lane as a passing lane. As it is now, you have the middle lane being the 'slow lane', and people passing on either side of it - and sometimes the left lane slows down 'cause some retard doesn't know it's a passing lane.

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ummmmm....






...no.

[Triumph36]

well in that case it doesn't [censored] matter whether or not there's a passing lane since no one is 'passing' anyone

[Claunchy]

By-Tor,

Do you actually think the OP is advocating everyone's sitting in the right lane in urban rush hour traffic? Or are you just being a pain in the ass?

[By-Tor]

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By-Tor,

Do you actually think the OP is advocating everyone's sitting in the right lane in urban rush hour traffic? Or are you just being a pain in the ass?

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I'm not the one who blanket-labeled all american drivers as idiots. The OP did.

If disagreeing with someone and providing examples makes them a "pain in the ass" in your world, there's not much I can do about that.