Driving! British VS American | Evan Edinger & Luke Cutforth & Kim
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- Who has it worse driving? The British or American system? Time to debate! Thanks so much for always enjoying my UK vs US videos! :)
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In the UK the traffic light colours mean this:
Green - Go
Red - Stop
Amber - Drive as fast as you can
Amber for my parents mean stop and red means go as fast as you can 😂 wwwwhhhhaaaatttt???
unless there's police
Eh that's pretty much New York too tbh
That sounds like a joke my grandma got me to tell my parents when I was younger 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Amber??? What??? Do you mean yellow????
My favourite British driving theory question:
“You are driving in the same lane as horses. What precautions should you take?”
The first option was “Get close enough to stroke them.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Once had this senario happen to us. Exept they were the lane next to us. And we have to stay 3ft clear. And i live in the US not the UK.
Yeah so the correct answer is “give them plenty of room.” Just remembered the other two options were “sound your horn” and “drive on the right hand side.” 😂😂😂
Wow those are amazing answers. Thankyou. I dont think i have heard anything that ridiculous for a month.
I had the sign on my theory test where there's a car falling into water and one of the options was "car wash" i was nearly dying trying not to laugh
I love it lmao
‘I just went straight over the roundabout.’
‘Was there anything on it’
‘Yeah there were plants’
TooMultiTBH i would scream if i saw someone doing that 😂
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Will Santini no
TooMultiTBH i died. also k-pop stan.
I actually died at that part 😂😂😂😂
What I've learned from ALL these videos is Evan grew up somewhere very weird and think that that is normal for the US.
"I'm pretty sure it's mandatory in the US that you take Driver's Ed as a course." Except that almost no where in the country do schools even offer it anymore. It's too big a liability. The flashing your lights thing is true, but we also flash for other cautions -- in my area, it usually means there are deer crossing the road so be cautious.
IceNixie0102 my school did but it was out of school hours, so I guess it wasn’t provided directly by my school for the liability like you said
In Ohio driving school is mandatory unless you’re over 18 but you still have to pass the same driving test
We do in Florida, but it's mostly online.
Yeah I took this super chill divers ed class where we only had one test and when my friend and I would trade out we would stop at a gas station and get some food.
In mine the flashing yellow is because of a fire station.
"all Americans are part Irish" *every italian-american throws their phone across the room*
Crawling Badger I'm both 😂😂
@@kaylatarapaskoski2390 same girl
*Every American that isn't of European ancestry just stares*
Crawling Badger that is really funny but not true
theres also alot of scottish in america
In the UK we also put our hand up in the car to say thank you. Like your waving, but without the waving gesture.
Chung Bin yeah we usually use flash hazards aswell, usually we’ll use flash hazards if it’s dark or if the car is in the distance and you want to alert them before hand. Really depends on the situation
Or the more subtle raise of your index finger off the steering wheel coupled with a short nod of the head.
People in the US do that to to say "thank you." Problem is I think a lot of Americans feel they own the road and therefore aren't thankful driving often 😂😂
Same in Germany ^^ I even do it as pedestrian when a car waits and lets me cross the street.
Pretty sure everyone does that mate. At least all the other european countries I've visited so far.
We do flash to warn other drivers of speedtraps in the UK That has been going on for years
Not many people do now. Mainly van drivers and people who are into cars.
It's actually illegal to flash to warn of speed traps but I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted for doing it.
In Norway too
@@sirderam1 Do a browser search, plenty of people have been done for it, it's a criminal offence of Obstructing Police.
@@RushfanUK
You may well be right. I said it's an offence but that I, personally, had never heard of anyone being prosecuted for it. I didn't say no one ever had been. Still, I think, in relative terms at least, it's quite rare.
If people stop calling it "the fast lane" and call it the "overtaking lane" they wouldn't be confused.
Or all drive at 70... then nobody needs to overtake anyone (except lorries).
@@sergarlantyrell7847 that would be great, instead we get driver driving at 50 mph on motorways/dual carrageways , so lorries force their way out into the second lane and slow everyone else up for miles
@@BigBadLoneWolf As a past lorrie driver in america, I see many other lorrie drivers behaving in selfish ways. Passing a vehicle with only 2 or 3 mph lead rather than slow to match. Gotta get there 5 minutes sooner, ya know.
@@sergarlantyrell7847 that’s not how driving works. Not every car is the same and as you said lorries vans and heavier vehicles are on the road as well. Just keep on the right and overtake on the left. It’s not that fucking hard
@@MrJimheeren every car should be able to do 70mph these days. There are special cases but in on 3 lane motorway, you could have 1 for speed restricted traffic (at 60) and the other 2 drive at 70.
I think that's where we're headed anyway, in the next 20 years I think most cars will be in driverless mode (at least on the motorway) so would be able to perfectly keep pace with each other.
"now it's just us and north korea" *all Australian's eyes narrow*
Lielee Potato and Kiwis
Australians, kiwis, Japanese, half of Africa, Guyana In South America - in short just under a third of countries drive on the left.
And Ireland, India, a whole bunch of ex-British territories and some countries around Indonesia, Jamaica, Malta, Nepal, Pakistan and a bunch of other random small places. As somebody who's lived in places on both sides of the side debate, I wish all countries would switch to driving on the right, though. I think it's so much more comfortable using your right hand with the shift stick, and hold and precision steer with the left hand, if need be. It just feels more natural. You even have movement controls on the left on controllers and shit.
North Korea doesn't even drive on the left anyway
And Irish
People in the US don't have roundabouts???? What the hell??? My town is full of roundabouts and I live in Colorado
Skylar Lange ikr here in Maine we have so many roundabouts
Mine too and I live outside Seattle
Me too live in Rhode Island
Yep, MA has a ton of them (but we call them rotaries). When they were talking about getting off the highway to a rotary and Evan was like "No we don't have that here" I was like we absolutely do! When you get off the Mass Pike in my town you get on a rotary
Me too I live in Minnesota
Evan is explaining US driving rules so poorly that I’m convinced he doesn’t really know how to drive. 😂
He does represent the general American public in that way then🤣
@@reptiloidtill Yea. Even areas with more stringent testing have an unlimited number of nitwits.
If you live in London, I could see why you wouldn't know how to drive
@LM97👑 I was gonna say the same thing
my favourite theory question is ‘you’ve just gotten into an argument into a friend, what should you do before driving’ and one of the answers is ‘have an alcoholic drink’
I’m from the Midwest and we call them roundabouts lol
We call them roudabouts to I'm from the south
i’m from southern mn and we have a ton of round a bouts
I think for the jughandles he was referring to what we call Michigan Lefts in Michigan. We have roundabouts but they are definitely different from what we call Michigan Lefts.
Eric Burton definitely talking about cloverleaf intersections, think interstates
Yea same I’m from the Middle East
you really need to start calling these british vs. new jersey haha half these rules don't exist where i'm from in new york!
I mean I do state (pun intended) that things are different state to state! Just PROUDA MY HERITAGE
6:40 is the first time you even _imply_ that you're not speaking for the entirety of America :P [first mention of New Jersey at all: 4:10]
- minimum age for a learner's permit/restricted license/full license varies by state [scroll down] www.verywell.com/driving-age-by-state-2611172
- driving tests are also different by state obv. [I believe the minimum passing score on mine in NYS was 70/100.]
- I don't think you actually need a license to drive a tractor in NY? Because they're not actually cars, legally? You just stick an orange diamond on the back and you're good to go. xD [this one may all be lies]
- 6:00 what the heck? I have no idea if you're talking about driving classes or the test at the DMV here? Because the written portion of my test was...like ten multiple choice questions. Then they gave you your permit and that was that until your road test.
- driving lessons aren't mandatory in NY and they sure as heck aren't _an actual high school class!_ taking them mostly just means insurance companies will give you a discount. [This and the weird car machine are just super alien to me. Somehow I always come away from these videos thinking, "wow Evan's so bourgeois, New Jersey is so upper-class/urban/Jersey Shore-y."]
- I'd never heard of "jug handles" before. It should be noted that New Jersey's roads are freaking absurd. I live near a smaller city, I guess, and we just put up a traffic light and deal with it. xD
- 10:00 "in America" No, in NY pedestrians always have the right of way, even if it's illegal for them to be in the road in the first place. I mean, it's not like you can just wantonly hit someone with your car and have it not be your fault.... Dunno what the actual law is about that in NJ.
- What? If the light thingy tells you you can cross, the traffic light should be red for that direction of traffic.... Mind you, that doesn't mean the other direction can't turn, or that people can't turn right on red through the crosswalk [they DO have to stop first, though. At the stop line, which is before the crosswalk.], so obviously you have to look both ways no matter what. [I don't mean to imply that anyone actually stops before crosswalks/etc. etc., just that it's the law that you have to.]
...whydidIdothis
May your swords stay sharp! (mysss29) who did you expect to read all that
Sophie Lewis I'm from Missouri and like all of these are different
@Lonergirl16 That's crazy were I live you can't drive by yourself u til your 17.
Tbh if you drive an automatic in the UK you basically can’t drive.
We all drive Manual here.
Aaron Jackson If you take your test in an automatic, you get a restricted licence and are generally seen as being a bit stupid!
My mum drives an automatic and honestly it makes me want to drive Manuel more. Dont wanna call my mum dumb but it is what it is
It doesn't mean your dumb because u can take a test in manual but then later on u can make a choice to drive a bigger car and a lot of bigger cars are automatic
In a few years when they ban petrol/diesel cars, all cars will be automatics as electric cars don't have years
@@spencerwilton5831 in Germany the license to mave only automatic is more expensive than having a combined automatic and manual license.
I’m from Louisiana and I didn’t know what a jug-handle was, we call it a U-turn and we call it a roundabout.
A jug handle is different than a u-turn . It's a separate road built on the side of a major road(3 lanes of more) that you drive through to get to a light to now drive straight past the intersection rather than making a left. It's a jersey thing
Natalie Ae thanks for the response, now I’m cultured and further enlightened. It’s really different in Louisiana, just a while bunch of one ways and some roundabouts. The streets are very narrow, also, and there are ditches on both sides of them for the most part.
Yeah, I'm going to say that your way seems so much easier. Lol I always thought jug handles were a bit much and kinda pointless. I'm from ny so Everytime I'm in Jersey I dread having to drive their highways.
Natalie Ae actually, people really suck at driving here. And the weather doesn’t help with how shitty the streets are.
Natalie Ae maybe what we call a slip road here
In England its common for people to flash oncoming traffic if there's a police van with a speed camera in it parked up.
Also commonly used to inform people that they are a wanker when they do certain things such as. Undertaking overtaking in corners running red lights or pulling out in front of you
@@aonghusmcboaby8289 or to tell people their great, for example letting someone pull out on a motorway to their turn.
But also I didn't read O.P's comment in the context of a car, so I got really confused lol
I from north east and Scotland and I only ever known myself and others to flash to allow/tell pedestrians they can cross
I live in the northeast of the us, and we dont have speed cameras, but if there's a policeman hiding on the road with his radar gun out people will flash their high beams to oncoming traffic after they pass as a warning.
I agree I'm a lorry driver in England and we flash and give a thumbs down (that seems to be a lorry thing tho very normal for us never seen a car do it) for speed checks
LOL us and North Korea. Australia, NZ, Japan, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, much of southern Africa and several other countries drive on the left
Dylan Oldenburg basically the commonwealth
Bees & Japan!
Dylan Oldenburg so basically all counties but those in North America😂
Out of hundreda
Jenna Flory no. Not really.
'my jousting stick' IT'S CALLED A LANCE! HELLO!
Ah, you beat me to it! Love that film.
Kim: Us and North Korea
Japan: Am i a Joke to you?
Australia: Me as well?
Original Wolf- Pakistan:What about us we were first
Cyprus as well.
Ireland has joined the chat
Nepal too
North Korea actually drives on the right, too
"Let's go round in a little circle, that'd be nice."
We seriously don't know how to drive here in the U.S.
Eatmore Icecream
Good for you. People suck here.
You are so true, Bethany. We suck lol.
Bethany Redd Mainly Jersey😂😂Jersey drivers r legit turds in a Twinky😂😂😂😂
Jenna Flory lmao. have you been to temecula? they are unbearably bad at drivin
We know - love 🇬🇧
07:21 When you remember that this video is 5 years old and Kims' sarcastic comment on the price of fuel is the days where everybody in the UK now wishes we could go back to 😭😭
I live on the east coast and hearing him talk about driving terms and stuff makes me just astonished. A K TURN!!! It's a 3 point turn yah dingus
I live on the east coast too lol and I learned it as a K turn
If you think drive thru banks are interesting, on Long Island, we have these drive thru kind of stores to buy milk and bread (and some snacks like donuts and chips). So, you just pull up, roll down your window, ask for a milk and they go and give you it right there. Makes it easier if you need milk and don't want to run to the supermarket.
Alyssa Levenberg omfg
Oh my god. That's so weird?
Damn that's efficient
Dan and Jam holy fuck YESSS
As someone who used to live in Long Island, I miss that honestly.
I live in Wales (U.K) and we definitely flash people with our beam lights if there's a speed camera up ahead (like in a van) or a police car. At least where I am from we do, it's just curtesy I guess haha, because not everyone drives exactly on or below speed limits
Also I actually laughed out loud at you going over the roundabout 😂😂😂😂 can we (brits) just imagine some crazy person driving OVER a roundabout😂😁😁😁😂😂
Ah I love that, everyone here just memorises them all and slows down suddenly
In South Africa to
How to drive: start engine (2)
Press clutch
Put in gear (1)
Slowly let off the clutch
Drive
Press brake
Put in gear (D)
Let off brakes
Drive
My aunt did the same thing when she was learning to drive! Her teacher told her to "go over" the roundabout (meaning head straight on) and she drove right into the plants etc 😂
Yeah I tend to prefer just being told the exist
If you flash your light in Denmark it's usually when it's dark to alert others to put down their light to avoid blinding opposite driving cars. You know when someone has the long light on coming towards you in the evening and you're driving somewhere that has no or very low street lighting, you'll be basically blinded and it can be pretty dangerous. You're supposed to put the light down when you meet others, but if people don't, you flash them.
We call them full beams, but in the UK we have the pleasure of young men driving hairdresser's cars with all the fog lights on....
But we do it for police as well in Denmark. Like if you pass somewhere with a speed control you'll flash your lights at the next few cars you meet
A lot of people in the US will do that, also. Some warn you that it could be a gang symbol. We also “blink” our lights to warn someone of something. We call them “brights.” At least where I live.
One flash of the high beams (brights) would be to remind oncoming cars that their high beams (brights) are on and blinding you. Multiple flashes of your high beams (brights) would be to warn them of a police speed trap ahead.
It's the same in Germany. We also flash our "Fernlicht" ("far light") when we want to give way to another car. The same when it's dark and we want to thank the other driver. Oh, and many (a**hole) drivers use it to tell the car in front of them to move over to the right lane so they can speed up.
But I just recently read an article that reminded drivers that this use of the "Lichthupe" ("light horn") is actually illegal. It's only supposed to be used in dangerous situations.
"it's just us an north korea now"
*australians crying in the distance*
Annabelle Leyland yep
Annabelle Leyland and New Zealand
*ONE HIGHWAY IN CHINA*
and Cyprus among others
And ireland
The fact that they think he’s lying about drive-through banks is hilarious, I didn’t know you could go inside of a bank for the first 12 years of my life. that’s how American I am. 💀
I flash my high beams to let people know to turn theirs off. It’s rude to pass another car going the opposite way with your high beams on but if you live somewhere rural where you can drive miles and not meet another car, people forget and basically accidentally blind you.
i wanted to hear the rest of that story! the one about being in a car accident an hour after u were born!
Jug handles are more of a new jersey thing then an overall American thing
There's a thing called a Michigan Left, which sort of describes the same end-result for roads where turning left isn't practical.
But also, roundabouts are becoming more of a thing in the Midwest.
Yeah. I was like I have no idea what this guy is talking about...
@@crachor Came accross a similar thing in Melbourne AUS as well with a "hook Turn"
Yeah, everytime I find myself in NJ, those always screw us up
@@crachor I remember the Michigan turn from my time in SW Michigan.
I passed my driving test in the Army at the age of seventeen, and it was in a Bedford RL truck! The very next day, I had to drive a Land Rover, with trailer, from Taunton to Sterling in Scotland. 12 hours driving with only one stop for fuel, my bum was numb!
I'm from Indiana. We're adding more and more roundabouts to intersections in my home town, and literally everyone over the age of like 25 (with the exception of my mother, cuz she's a smart lady) complains about them. My grandma gets SO NERVOUS driving around roundabouts and then she'll complain about it for like 15 minutes after she's gone through it. It's kinda funny though, because about 30 minutes north of us is Carmel, which has more roundabouts than any other city in the US.
I live in Wisconsin and we have SO MANY ROUND-ABOUTS!
And I know it's just that you lived in a different state than I do, but there are so many of your British VS American videos where I'm just like "... Evan... we have that in the US..." or "I have no idea what you're talking about. I've never even heard of that."
It just goes to show how vast the world(even just the US) really is.
hey i just realized u and brendon urie have the same size forehead
Kelly Tran OH DAMN
Kelly Tran yaas
Kelly Tran savage
WinK wOnK
Kelly Tran rrrrrrrrrrrrrr
*Japan also drive on the left, it's why Toyota love manufacture and ship so many cars in the uk
Yet they don't make their whole line available in the UK. For some reason the Avalon, Tundra, Highlander and Sequoia aren't shipped to the UK. The Toyota that the UK gets that isn't available in North America is the Aygo and that's not a bad thing.
@@rich7447 yes they love shipping to the UK so much that theyre hardly ever seen on UK roads (where i live at least) unless its a tiny Aygo (or rebadged as the Citroen C1 or Peugeot 107/108) or a Hilux. its why theyre soundly outsold by most other brands. Toyota sold a TOTAL of 105,000 passenger cars in the UK in 2019. Ford on the other hand sold almost 78,000 in 2019. and thats JUST the Fiesta (The UKs best selling car)
@@petelattimer6808 Kind of blows up the argument that Japan ships cars to the UK because both drive on the same side.
I drive a Ford Freda, which is a Japanese import, but you can't buy these new in the UK, only second hand from dealers who buy them from Japan.
In the UK we do warn other drivers that there's police checking speeds by flashing lights to the oncoming traffic!
Catherine Birchall people that do that are actual life savers
Jamaica too.
We do flash other cars to warn of speed cameras etc but technically you can be pulled by the police for doing so. Doesn’t stop people though.
It's also illegal in the U.K. to tell people there is police further up ahead!
I thought this too.Pretty sure you can be charged with obstructing a police officer in their course of duty
Rachel Potter it's illegal in the US too. You could be heavily fined but people still do it regularly
where i'm from in the UK we all still do it
I mean if you use your headlights how will they know like xd
it's illegal everywhere, just make sure you're not flashing a cop.
I remember when I was in LA i realised, beeping once is never enough; at least 10 times just about does it
Caitlin Walker yes this is true lol. People from other states hate us
Caitlin Walker by beeping do you guys mean honking your horns???? I've just never really heard the term "beeping" to do with cars....I'm Canadian btw
RyRy Peach honking?😂 omg I'm from the uk and we say beeping cos it sounds like beeping idk 😂
Caitlin Walker 😂😂😂 see now I say it and realize how weird a word "honking" is
80% to passed?? Dude I got a 73 and still got my license
D’s get degrees my man
To add to 2:50... Most humans' right eye is the dominant eye, so in UK our right eye can better see the upcoming traffic and left can see the footpath, etc.
You must be a LindyBeige viewer.
@@wulfherecyning1282 Nope, never heard of it before
My city in California (the west) took like five years to add one round-about and suddenly no one knew how to drive, everyone complained, and they had to dedicate 3 pages of the driver's manual to diagrams and explanations on how to use one. Also, I've literally never heard of a drive-thru bank that had a tube or speaker. You just put your PIN in and do the thing. That Family Guy scene makes so much more sense now...
That’s because average USA IQ is lower than that of an average UK IQ
Really? Roundabouts and drive in banks are all over Florida. The tube also gives you candy
What part of California are you from? Cuz I grew up in LA/OC region and we have roundabouts in suburban areas to slow down the drivers. Also they have several drive-thru banks in orange county...
I have that drive thru bank
Drive thru banks are pretty common
Wait?? 32 POUNDS TO FILL YOUR TANK?? I'M MOVING, WE HAVE THE SAME SIZE CAR AND I PAY MORE THAN TWICE THAT??
I think in my state its a little cheaper..
£80+ for me........That's $120
,,,, it’s like 32 dollars to fill my tank and i drive a minivan
That's why the US are so bad for the enviroment. And because they have all the oilz
x3kiwiix3 im aware
"Outdated manual car"
Every car enthusiast felt that
In most African countries, you have to learn and take the test in manual car. In fact the theory exam was literally just a guy pointing 2 signs and asking "what sign is this?". Pass those and you're done with all the theory. The practical exam required one to be able to start the car on an incline and balance it then proceed do the 3 point turn and the rest of things required of a driver. Driving school with at least 10 days with an instructor is mandatory.
Jug handles are a New Jersey thing. We don’t have those in Illinois
I'm guessing driving rules are different each state
What I've learned (especially after moving to LA last month): AMERICAN TRAFFIC LAWS ARE DUMB.
you just arent native to it. If i went to UK I would think the same
At least we can turn (right) on red.
In general Americans have fewer rules.
Correct
Go back to your narrow roads then
The story of you going OVER the roundabout 😂😂
name twin ayyyy
That explains why road fatalities are 50% higher.
Being an Aussie I loved watching this finding out info about uk & us driving laws/how you get your license.
"I just grew up in new Jersey" THAT'S WHY YOUR ROAD SYSTEM IS SO DAMN CONFUSING
"All Americans are basically Irish" - Evan Edinger 2k17
It's true though. There are five times more people with Irish descent in the US than in all of Ireland.
(and Italian, hahaha)
and 60% of em live in Boston :P
maisie394 Thanks to the Potato Famine and Catholicism's view on birth control. LOL
maisie394
I'm literally like 90% Irish
So, nobody mentioned the rounadbouts within the roundabout? I saw a vid on that and it was mental!
The Magic Roundabout (Its actual name) in Swindon is one!
I don't know where you're driving but we definitely flash each other to let others know there's a speed camera in the UK! Especially on long roads that really don't need to be 30mph!
In the UK we flash others if there are speed vans or police cars. We do have stop signs although most people treat them like junctions. And manuals are better 😉
Louiseymajiggy I was thinking that we do have stop sign in Somerset certainly, probably more to do with bendy lanes
in america, most junctions are stop signs or intersections. compared to there, we bacially dont have stop signs because they are pointless because people slow down at give way signs anyway
Here in norway we flash others if rhere are moose close to the road or on it. Or other sorts of wildlife.
Manuals get better mpg, are better for acceleration, and can use engine braking downhill or at junctions, and thus save brake wear....and they never get stuck in 'drive' and wander off without their driver...
+massdave2
You would need to be some sort of profesional driver to notice any of these effects and with hybrid cars (which do not have conventionel gear boxes) there is a gear lever position (generally marked "B") which allows engine braking (oh and as for using engine braking to save brake wear I would rather change a set of brakes than an entire engine).
Also electric motors have a MUCH wider power band so in electric vehicles(the way things are going soon only petrol heads will have engined cars most of the world will be using some sort of electric drive system) there is no requirment to keep motor speed within a certain band so there will be no need for conventional gearboxes
My dad is supposed to teach me to drive this year... I am terrified
Amelia Harrell u shouldnt be you'll get used to it
my dad took me out today for the first time and it was so fun and honestly i was so nervous before but we just went to a big empty car park and he taught me how to move off and change gears, it's really easy to learn and it gave me so much more confidence to start lessons, good luck!!
uM I SAW YOUR PROFILE PIC
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Amelia Harrell driving's all fun and games until you start paying for your own gas
its fun and games until you pass, where insurance is £2000, tax is £150 and then a MOT is £50, and petrol
Kim honestly teaches me so much. Because of her I'm gonna go straight to driving lessons instead of insuring my parents car. But I'll still practice in their car with them in a private area
We flash our lights for cops and speed vans in Ireland, it'd be rude not to!
You can drive a tractor at the age of 16 in Britain! and I went to a rural high school so all the farmers lads use to turn up to school in their tractors when they turned 16!
In my area in the uk we flash the lights to alert drivers if the police are trying to catch people speeding.
Arigato xx haha they do that in America too!
In my area of the UK we also do this
@Eve Dedman not in the USA for the most part the courts have ruled it falls under freedom of speach
do that all the time here in the good ol' us of a
I'm from the USA and I've never heard of that before.
(1:30) I think it's, if it's an area closed off from the public, then you can drive vehicles without license. The license is only required to drive vehicles where the public has access to.
Before you can try the theoretical test you have to visit a first aid course (150 swiss francs) in Switzerland. The theoretical test (50 swiss francs) in Switzerland contains 50 multiple choice questions with 150 possible answers (you could get 2 faults at one questions).
You pass when you have less than 15 answers wrong answers. Afterwards you get your learners permit (around 40 swiss francs). Before your driving test you have to visit two courses (theory) which costs around 350 swiss francs each. The driving test takes 1 hour with an expert (around 40 swiss francs). After the test you're under probation for 3 years and have to visit a course (350 swiss
francs). If you don't visit the course, you have to start from the beginning. I got lucky, until last year, people had to visis a second 350 swiss francs course (you would drive around with 4 strangers in a car and they would rate your driving skills).
The reason most of the world drive on the right is because of Napoleon. He was peeved at England and changed the side of traffic in France and all the territories he conquered and the new way became the norm...
Yeah this happened because he was left-handed and it’s easier to shake hands with your left hand if you’re on the right side of the road.
not true it was to do with horse and cart. as the person who was in charge of steering the cart would sit on the front left horse thus you would pass other carts on the left meaning you would drive the cart on the right
In Europe with overhanging tree branches, people sat on the right side of carriages so that their whip was free in their right hand, in the middle of the track, away from the trees. In France, the aristocracy would force peasants over to the right hand side of the road ("Get out ze way, I am rich and important!"), so the peasants would normally stick to the right side. During the revolution, in order not to stick out, aristocrats wanting to keep their heads joined the peasants' side, so it became normal, then when Napoleon conquered most of Europe, he pushed out the French standard of driving on the right. So this left the unconquered Britain maintaining the original logical side.
In the US, their long distance wagons which were drawn by multiple horses/oxen, didn't have seats, instead the driver would sit on one of the animals closest to the wagon, usually the left one so that their whip in their right hand was down the centre of the two lines of animals. Sitting on the left then became the norm, and therefore driving on the right. Sweden apparently had similar wagons hence why they drove on the wrong side of the road.
Roundabouts are actually an American invention.
It's illegal to warn a motorist of a speed trap, in fact one person received a fine and points on their licence while sat in their lounge because they put a sign outside their house warning that the police were around the corner!
The Automobile Association was started as an anti speed trap organisation. Back then a bobby would hid in the hedge and jump out as you passed, waving a flag. Another bobby would start a stop watch, and then as you passed a 3rd bobby, they'd wave another flag. If the time between flags was too short, you were speeding and nicked. Often the police would start the stopwatch a bit late, or the flag wavers would be too close, catching people who weren't actually speeding. So a group of motorists got together and employed messenger boys on bicycles to flag down their members and warn them. The government responded by making it illegal, so the AA then employed uniformed patrol men who would salute if they saw a passing member. If they didn't salute, it meant they may have some important information, and you could choose to stop and ask them, which got around the law against warning motorists.
Like the little bitter angry man he was
The more i watch these vids the more i realize he doesnt represent a majority of Americans 😂
Well, we, like our various areas are quite different. :D But, I agree with you.
It's because he's from Jersey
I'm from philly so I understand lol
Where he’s from in Jersey is about 20-30min from where I’m from and still live. So for me everything he is saying it’s pretty much true
The majority of UK aswell
In Queensland we have CTP (compulsory third party) which covers the other driver’s injuries if you hit someone and you’re at fault. This is included in your registration which is at the time of writing is about $700 for 12 months.
Most people have comprehensive insurance which covers loss or damage, etc. Mine for this year was about $850 but I got a quote when I first got my car and because I was under 25 it was $2500 for 1 year. Apparently as you pass certain age brackets it does get cheaper
18:00 In Germany we flash our headlight to... TELL TOURISTS TO GET OUT OF THE WAY ON AUTOBAHN... scheiße.
Flashing headlights means move out of the way on uk motorways as well.
My parents would've loved not having to pay for a two month course if it was offered as a high school course XD
when my family went to UK, holy crap there were so many roundabouts
They used to offer it but now they don't
jfc i'm so scared to drive like woah
phanaticpsycho same though
Same! I could've have my license 2 years ago but I've just never driven because it scares me
phanaticpsycho there's a girl like woah
phanaticpsycho I'm learning to drive atm ! It's okay but it's kinda nerve racking!
im going to overcompensate and crash
what Evan (and some Americans) doesn't/don't understand is that...
In the UK, if you can't drive a manual car
then you can't drive full-stop.
Actually yes, you can. You can take lessons and tests for automatic, but you will only be issued a restricted license allowing you to ONLY drive automatics. Given that the manual license allows you to drive both manuals and automatics there is very little point in learning in an automatic in the UK though. You may as well learn and take the test on a manual and leave your options open.
Considering that manual transmissions are becoming very rare in North America (at least north of the Mexican border), it doesn't really hurt people in the US to only be able to drive automatics. we have three vehicles, two of which are automatics. The third is a 5 speed Jeep Wrangler that we drive for fun more than anything.
We've had several sub-contractors at our property while we were building a home and I was leaving the keys in the Wrangler so that people could move it out of the way if needed (pretty common on a job site). Just about all of the guys over 40 had no trouble, but very few of the young guys could drive it.
@@alganhar1 That was the same in Switzerland until last year. Now everyone want to learn automatic because it's cheaper (less lessons to pay).
For Long Island where I live, we use 2 or 4 lane roads with a middle lane dividing traffic and also used for left turns. But we also have roundabouts. There is also a jug handle at New York State Routes 347 and 111 in Smithtown
drivers ed costs money every where I've lived in the US. I wish it was a mandatory course for high school wtf.
I've also never heard of warning drivers of a cop by flashing the high beams.. I usually only flash my high beams when someone doesn't have their lights on at night or if I'm at a four way stop trying to get them to go.
MissIzzy Gingy When I took drivers ed it was mandatory. Muncy, PA
My school offers drivers ed before or after school. The instructor offers a 30 hour course after school and after that class of finish there will be sign ups for the morning classes. The classes are definitely not mandatory but it’s open for those who don’t have money or just don’t want to pay for the class
It’s mandatory in my area for someone to take Drivers Ed in order to get their permit. But my county also pays for the class so students don’t have too.
MissIzzy Gingy Also that is a normal thing. Not high beams though, just the regular lights.
drivers Ed is not mandatory for 10th grade for me at least
it is in new Jersey
Bridget Teahl same for Virginia
In Pennsylvania the classroom portion is mandatory, but the actual car driving portion isn't. Most people end up taking the driving portion to reduce their insurance.
Stuie Malan i live in pennsylvania and its not mandatory lol
JLRoseC it was a graduation requirement at my school and I lived in Pennsylvania.
Aussie driving :
16 - Learners permit must have for a min of 1 year where you have to do 100 supervised hours and have them sent off for approval to the transport department,
17 - able to get driving license after log book approval, “P1” (provisional license) which is a red p plate that’s displayed like a learner plate. The test takes about 30 mins, and has about 5 manoeuvres to pass. You’re able to pass with up to 8 minors but fail instantly with a major. P1 has a curfew that doesn’t allow more than one non family member in the vehicle after a certain time in the day.
18 - after having your red provisional license for 1 year you are able to do an online test for green provisionals (P2) and this allows you to have as many people in your car at any time as wanted.
You have your green p’s for 2 years minimum
20 - able to get an open license where it’s not necessary to display and plates and legally are able to have 1 standard alcohol drink without exceeding the limit (limit is 0 for P’s)
To teach a learner driver you must have had your open license for a year so technically a 21 year old can teach anyone to drive.
That sucks man. Similar to UK motorbike laws. I have to be 21 until i can ride any bike.
Driver signals you do in Europe:
• Double high beam flash:
- you can merge in front of me (to someone wanting to merge)
- there's a police behind me (to oncoming traffic)
- there's an issue with your car (to the car ahead of you)
• Double hazard signal, or left-right-left-right
- thank you (in some areas, a double hazard can be a negative signal)
• Double right (RHT) or double left (LHT)
- road is clear up ahead for overtaking (but be mindful that a turn signal can be confused for this)
• Constant hazards on the motorway or other high speed road
- show traffic ahead, or obstacle
in Australia we have drive through liquor shops and I think that says a lot about us
slambobdunc
This made me crack up haha
Ayeee Bottle-O’s
Some US states have those too. Great invention.
Wait. Cars can still go when the green man is out?????
WHAT?
Guess I'll never walk outside again.
@@ado543 WHAT?! That's insane, I kinda see how it's more efficient but I can't imagine there being no 100% safe time to cross... Guess I'm never walking OR driving outside the UK
In the uk cars have to stop when the green mans out or they get arrsested for going through there red light
@@m_music8821 i'm pretty sure you only get fined for going through a red light in the uk. i could be wrong bc i don't drive, but as far as i'm aware most places in the uk you only get fined if you're caught.
leila middleton it might be true they could of changed it since I last heard it
@@DreamsAreMakeBelieve Actually your supposed to stop first, check for people, then you can go
Ok so I'm 17 in the UK and I've had driving lessons for about 2 months and realising that I know how to change gears and Evan doesn't has blown my brains
The flashing of the high beams thing does happen at times in the UK. Or at least in my area in Scotland! There's one part of the road near my house where the police will sit with speed cameras trying to catch people out and usually people flash their lights at you if they have seen them
See, they stop doing driver's ed in high school in the US. I wish they didn't cause people can't drive. Also, we'd probably abuse the roundabout system cause people like to speed. We have stop signs cause they trying to make sure we actually freaking stop.
they still have it in new Jersey
Bridget Teahl Well that's good cause mine sure didn't.
I mean I'm a freshman so I don't have it yet, but they substitute health for drivers ed in 10th grade
Abuse a roundabout in England and you will just get t-boned ☺
+Bridget Teahl (Bri) yea it's drivers ed by handbook in 10th grade in jersey but you can also do 6 hours outside of school with the DMV or a private drivers school
you guys wanna come to Australia to drive, you go through many more tests. first level (learner) you do a theory test where you can only get one question wrong, then you have to do 120 hours of driving with an Australian citizen who has a full licence. and then once you've done that you do another test to get onto your red P's that is practical where you actually drive and you have to be on your red P's for a year and then you can go for your green P's where you have to do a theory test to get onto it. and then once you've been on that for the minimum amount of time you can get your full licence
Mostly true but you need 80% on your learners test to pass so you can get more than one wrong. To get onto your red P’s you need to pass a hazards test on the computer and the practical driving test. There’s no test to get onto your green p’s you just need to either have had your red Ps for a full year or be over 21
Australia sounds like a nanny state
Unless you from SA and then your P2 is done without plates 😂😂
I only need to do 75 hours of driving 🤙🏼
Yeah my cousins live in Australia and they constantly complained about how shit it is the learn to drive there
I am Slovak and my driving test had 3 parts. 1. an option questions (40 marks)2. a spoken car safety or maintenance question together with a field drive where they test your parking (all 3 kinds of parking) and a drive around cones in Snake like form which is timed and observed by a Police Officer, 3. an about 15-20 minute drive through the city with your instructor as your side passenger and a police officer as a passenger (sometimes another students as a passenger too) where the officer gives you directions where to go (if you instructor has to even say something, you failed).
After you passed you have to drive with an assigned side passenger (have to be an active driver for 10 years and more) until you are 18.
but then... unlike in UK... you can drive any normal car since there is One insurance that covers the car and so you can drive any car someone borrows you as it is classed as their responsibility since they are borrowing the car,
13:47 We have something similar in the Czech Republic but it's very occasional and it's quite rare to have only a blinking yellow... usually, you have regular lights (green-yellow-red) that work normally thru a predetermined part of the day when a lot of people are crossing the road here. For the rest of the day, when there are very few pedestrians, the regular green-yellow-red pattern is "turned off" and they left running only a blinking yellow. The most common example would be in front of schools.
Is New Jersey even real? Evan inaccurately represents the rest of America every time and it just makes me wonder who decides these things in NJ. 😂
JERZ AND PROUD
I know--I wish there was another American from a different part of the country to compare driving laws/norms.
Also, I live in Pennsylvania on the border of NJ and even I was surprised by some of the stuff he mentioned. It's weird how--even in areas that are fairly close to one another--the driving standards are so different.
...That being said, my driving test was EXACTLY the same. I stopped, parallel parked, made a right into an intersection, and then parked in front of the DMV. That was it.
NOTICE INDIANA SENPAI
Yeah people in NJ always drive way over the speed limit i.e. If the speed limit is 30mph, then they drive 40. 60 mph, 70-80 mph
true that, you like... have to match up with the other drivers and join too, because else your the turtle in the stream of jaguars
Evans triggered by roundabouts
Frances Ivy yes its - ohitsjustkim
Frances Ivy everyone is triggered by roundabouts I had 4 in my driving tests
Hannah Smith are you somewhere in Europe because we generally have more roundabouts here so more in your test
Australia actually, where I live just has a ridiculous amount of roundabouts
Hannah Smith that's really interesting actually, I'm in the UK
I will add that driver's ed is not required in New York State schools. I haven't learnt to drive and I'm 21.
There are roundabouts in Wisconsin and it’s AWESOME when relatives come around.
In India, we drive on the left side of the road. And it's still mostly stick shift. Driving test only happens with stick shift. Automatic cars are gaining popularity only recently.
I usually say 'U turn' lmao I've never heard someone refer to it as a 'Jug handle' until now
They're different.
A U turn is just like, turning around in the shape of a U.
A jug handle is a separate mini-road off to the side.
Google a picture of a jug handle to see.
CaseyNightstand same😂
we don’t have jug handles in oregon, we have flashing yellow arrow lights, which basically means that the traffic on the other side has a green light and once it’s clear, turn left but it’s gonna change to red in a second so you probably can never turn left
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle
CaseyNightstand same and a K turn
In Australia, we also drive on the correct Left side of the road... but manual gear shift, there's floor shift (fairly common) or column shift, which is that American thing of it being a larger lever out of the steering column (more standard with an automatic gearbox), but that was also an option for the H-pattern manual (usually 3sp +Reverse) the standard pattern was towards you and down was 1, away and up was 2 and down from there was 3, reverse was towards and up, and usually sat further up than 2nd, also you couldn't get the ignition key out unless it was in "lock" position and "lock" was only available when in reverse gear... I had a 5sp. column shift in a van once... other oddities were push button automatic, ie. No Shift lever; a preselect gearbox, so the stick was smaller on a plinth/tube/arm which you engaged the next gear by moving the stick into it and accelerating, take your foot off and it would automatically engage the selected gear by "magic". If you want real fun try a "crash gearbox", no synchronisation of gears so double clutching, ie. Clutch in to go out of gear, out again adjust engine speed, clutch in and select next gear before out again to engage that gear... then imagine 24 gears.
I'm in Michigan and we call jug handles "Michigan lefts" because there are So Many in Michigan
Yeah we dont do driving at school in england becasue we leave school at 16 and we cant drive till 17
Emily Mintern we leave school at 18 in England
Funny Girl no we dont 😂 you can go to another place and carry on education if you want or you can get an apprenticship or do a course? We leave school though at 16 after gcse's
Funny Girl yes it is 18 here in my year when I was at school, finished year 13 in June, our year was the last year to leave at 16.
yep but i think they meant you have to stay in education (eg college or apprenticeship like you said) til you're 18! some people's schools have sixth form as well so they might stay there
you legally have to be in education until 18. that includes apprenticeships. that only changed relatively recently though (5 years ago maybe?)
As an American who lives (and drives) in the UK, I gotta say, Evan was a little embarrassing...
In Ben Colling's (The Stig) book"How to Drive" he has an entire chapter about why it is better, and statistically safer to drive on the left (right hand drive). I am an American that learned to drive in Japan (RHD) I agree. Also makes way more sense to me to shift and clutch with the same side of the body.
I live in the Netherlands and in the first lesson we learn to manoeuvre around a roundabout but looking comes at lesson 3, this is because the first few lessons is to get the basics of operating a manual car down.
Small explination driving manual car:
Clutch connects the engine and transmission. To shift without grinding gears (yes this is the official term) you need to press in the pedal to disconnect it (skilled drivers can shift without decoupling but just by matching rev's...)
And SMOOTHLY move the clutch, it makes it way more comfortable and safer than just dumping it.
Also the shifting pattern for most 6 speed cars (for 5 speeds the reverse gear is usually where the 6th gear is in 6 speed cars)
(R 1 3 5)
(X 2 4 6)
X = empty
In the Scottish Borders, we do hand signles to communicate with other drivers and pedestrians
A little wave to say "thank you", a sweeping motion for "no, you go, it's okay", and maybe a thumbs up to say "okay, thanks, I'll go now"
most people i know who drive generally just do hand signals. i don;t think i've ever seen anyone flashing their lights as a thank you. although they normally just do the little wave to generally be like 'thanks' or 'sorry'.
I love the constant talk of roundabouts because in my city there is a roundabout every 50 yards
Same lol I live in Canada and we have soooooooo many. My province is slowly changing all our intersections, even ones that didn’t have traffic lights and they were just stop signs
Hey! My family is from NJ too! but I was born and raised in North Carolina and we do not have jug handles we have "clover leafs" which usually involves bridges either the highway going over the crossroad or vice versa. Also I believe part of the reason people hang out in the left lane on highways is because the terminology as changed over the years from "Passing Lane" to "Fast Lane" if we went back to the "Passing Lane" terminology I think it wouldn't be as confusing. Also (again), cars are supposed to YIELD to pedestrians, however in our society of everything is about "ME" people ignore that law. You vids are so interesting, and educational!!! :)
We do (Northern Ireland) flash highlights at oncoming traffic if we have passed any type of hazard as a warning to be cautious, whether its an alert to police ahead, person walking at night, car parked on road etc.