Garnt Learnt How to Drive a Car in Thailand
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I've been in Thailand for nearly 12 years now, and I gotta say, it's no man's land on roads.
Things you need to know:
1. In their heads, using signal lights has a fee
2. Nothing exists other than what's in front of them
3. They constantly drive like they need to take a shit immediately
4. Green = Go; Yellow = Go Faster; Red = Floor It
so true 😂🤣
Well... They did pay for the whole speedometer...
@@SUNOSidk That's why half of Germany's highway have no speed limit. Every stationwagen makes 250 km/h(160 mph), it would make bo sense to pay for these cars if you cauld only drive as fast as a Fiat 125 ?
I realy wonder why people buy cars with high top speeds outside of Germany...I mean why would you drive a BMW M5 that goes 305 km/h(190 mph) top speed if you can only travel at 70mph at most places in the usa or 120 km/h most places in Europe?
It makes no sense.
Vouch fr
I’ve seen the “They drive like they need to take a shit” so many times
As someone who lives and learned how to drive in SEA lemme tell yall when Joey and Garnt said SEA has no road rules but road SUGGESTIONS, they ain't kidding. I constantly see people breaking road laws, even important ones like signaling where you're turning to (especially this).
The only rules when driving is "Reach your destination and don't die"
@@user-xw3yk6pg1e literally "Objective: Survive"
Singapore is probably the exception. They take rules very seriously over there, but once they cross the border, the gloves are off and they drive like lunatics, especially on highways LOL...
My boss went to India once, they had a cow blocking the road, so their taxi driver zoom out against the traffic
China is the same. Too many people drive on the opposite side of the road if it was clear
"Imagine having a legitimate driving liscense" - me (a south east asian)
Imagine taking the tests when all you have to do is bribe an insider and go through the backdoor lmfao (Indonesian)
Average Indian be like
Filipino here. Fully agree, though having one might be nice just for the additional identification.
Malaysian here, literally we have a “confirm pass” package which the bribe is included in haha
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Lesen kopi/terbang.
I live in the Philippines and driving here is actually just Dark Souls but IRL. You must always consider every vehicle to be out for your blood and you need to like memorize their attack patterns and learn to dodge appropriately. Road Rules are more like Road Suggestions here and if you see a Stop sign, always think twice about stopping otherwise the driver behind you will just ram you. Yellow lines on the roads are purely ornamental and I'm sure 80% of drivers here don't even know what they mean. And don't get me started on bus drivers... Those guys are just a different breed of people.
Sounds creepy tho💀
Bus drivers in my area knows how to drift lol
That reminds me of the jeepney my mother and I regularly took when we were still in Philippines. So, the thing is our house was on top of this giant hill with cement/stone stairs leading up to it. But the ONLY road closest to my house was this steep as fuck road that pretty much looks like this -> /
And instead of stopping the jeepney at the base of the hill the driver stops ON the steep road.
I FEARED FOR MY LIFE EVERYTIME IT STOPPED BECAUSE FOR A TINY CHILD GRAVITY IS THE ENEMY
…I honestly still don’t get how the tires on that vehicle stayed on 😅
Same here in India
driving in general in SEA is just a really bad experience.
driving in SEA is like imagine every driver is a GTA player with their own set up rule
I live in the US, but have been to Thailand and specifically Bangkok many times. I am scared shitless to drive there, but I respect the drivers there. It's more of a feeling the flow of things rather than following the rules per se. In the US, it is more about following rules.
Also, something interesting from a Thai friend of mine who visited the US was that he thought it was awesome that people moved out of the way for emergency vehicles here. Apparently they don't do that in Thailand.
They do do that in Thailand its just that most of the time the road is pack as shit and their no room to move without a crash happening
As a Thai person myself, I actually saw cars moved out of the way for ambulance, once. But yeah the road in Thailand specially in Bangkok is shit
I wouldnt really say driving in the US is about following rules. Maybe some states, but definitely not Kentucky lol
@@kittikat4124 When you compare it to many places overseas (excluding Europe) or even Central and South America you'll have a greater appreciation for how much Americans follow the rules.
my friend and I were surprised in the US that they actually yielded or stopped to allow you to go first not just on the road but for pedestrians too. Like in SEA, its a game of chicken. The only way to can turn into a road or like switch lanes is by seeing a gap and just going for it.
Are there rules in SEA countries? Yes
Do people follow them? Sometimes
Do people get caught breaking the rules? All the time
Do they change their ways? Not really. They just learn to not do it at certain places/times
love my people
Connors story of an instructor is so relatable, my girlfriend is from the UK and her instructor ghosted her and they can not find a new instructor that's available.
To be fair to Joey’s father, every BMW I have ever come across when driving has been a dickhead. Cutting people off, erratic sudden breaks etc
Maybe it’s just my area
I think Joey's dad had an issue with Volvo drivers. It was Connor that chimed in with BMW drivers.
Its not. In Portugal is the same thing
@@flowerpower3082 Oh I wasn’t talking about the specific car, I just meant there are certain type of car owners that make a special brand of entitlement haha
Where I come from, most German car brands are associated with complete d*ckheads o' the road.
Nah BMW drivers are known to be pricks worldwide.
These boys would lose their shit if they saw the driving test I had in a rural town in Arkansas. I pulled out of a parking lot, made 4 right turns around the block, and parked. That's genuinely all they ask of you around here.
Here in Kentucky I, quite literally, just had to drive around the courthouse as my practical exam. Took all of 15 minutes.
In Brazil school year it's like in Australia: It starts usually at the end of January and it goes until mid December. With a winter break of about two weeks in July.
Driving it's another story: You need to be eighteen (so, not that common to find students that can drive during High School) and you need to go to a driving school (you're not allowed to drive a personal car, you learn with a structor using the driving school's car).
You firts take the theorical lessons (first aid, laws, etc), then if you pass the test you can go to do the actual driving lessons with the structors, after the lessons if you pass another test you get your provisional driver's license and after a year, if don't messed it up, you get your permanent one.
every term in aus has a 2 weeks break
but thats a good thing having driving experience in sea esp in thailand cause then you know the person can handle a car properly, they have the comfort and they have the reflex and sense of where the car is at all times and what is around the car. I cant say the same for the west
And if your driver used to be a bus driver in a SEA country then I'm pretty sure that your life is in the hands of a true master and you're life is in very safe hands.
Just a month ago I learned how to drive in my hometown, which is Bangkok, Thailand. They just taught you which one is forward, backward, parking gear, signal light... bla bla. Let me drove slowly around learning center facility to be somewhat familiar with the steering wheel, throttle and brake. All of this is within half an hour.
Then he just let me go out onto the real road. After checking my Google Map location tracking, he put me on the road for a fucking 160 km literally in the center of downtown Bangkok. In just 10 hours driving learning course. Which is the first 10 hours of driving a car in my whole life.
As you said, it's all about surviving and train your instinct to match and flow with everyone on the road.
I don’t understand the stereotype of bad Asian driver, Asian are god tier drivers.
Besides speeding, there is a good chance an Asian driver wouldn't give the signal or simply be not aware enough, obviously endangering literally everyone. It happens quite frequently to the point of stereotyping.
america school year is august to may for me. 2 weeks for christmas and like 3 months between the end and the beginning
yeah same
here we start in January too! i didn’t know australia started in jan too
Just look at the title, and notice how the first thing brought up in the video is school lunch…This is Trash Taste, and it’s great.
Them talking about failing their driving test, meanwhile I backed up without looking behind me, only checked my mirrors, and still passed first try 😂
American schools the school year is Mid to late August to End of May with most schools being 2 weeks winter break, 2.5 months summer break (June, July, early August) then some having a week for Thanksgiving (November) and a week for spring break (March)
Yeah, My first insurance cost was like £4000 and was just below the cost of my car itself, I was very lucky and my nana bought my car and I paid the insurance with the money I'd saved up. It's very difficult for young people getting into driving in the UK if you don't have a lot of money. I managed to get my licence as soon as I turned of age and I don't know how but managed to pass my theory and physical first time 🤣😂
FOUR THOUSAND?!! How the fuck are you supposed to pay 4000£ every month?!
3:20 at the rwth you get 3 weeks of holiday IF you get a really good exam schedule
here in Greece we have 3 months without school! plus 1 extra month(Easter and Christmas)
My school days started on April/March after a month/half a month of break
Joey: _My school starts in January._
Background: *_YES!_*
_(Also is that Nabil in the background?)_
As a Thai I can honestly say that driving in Thailand is both fun and dangerous at the same time 👍👌
Some schools start in February?! Our school starts in the second week of September and ends at the second week of June
I started learning to drive in 2017 but It kept getting pushed back until 2020. The first time it kept getting pushed back was because I was on a reality tv show, then it got pushed back because I started college and then covid happen. Now I have the license and I still don't drive :/
Yes, back then the US had a great economy popped up on mortgage fraud and even lower middle class households could afford cars exclusively for their children. Especially in the SoCal area with alot of wealth, where most high school movies were filmed.
Fast forward to 2014 when I got my license, worked at a chemical storage facility for 8 months (traveling by bicycle on highways) and made enough money to go halfsies with my dad on a 1999 Mitsubishi.
I long for those high school movie tropes too man.
Whoever was in charge of the clipping didn't get the memo
Driving a vehicle in SEA is a literal battle. You fight for right of road, for speed, and your own life.
Once you drive well on SEA, you are considered a veteran. But if you drive a motorcycle and NOT stop to use it, you are considered as a god or an asshole.
I once witnessed an SUV that hydroplaned in front of me and did a 360 spin but he somehow managed to regain control. I looked at the driver's face as I overtook him and I literally saw his face with like the most bored expression plastered on it. Like wtf? You literally just nearly died there. How are you so calm?!
@@SUNOSidkBro’s listening to eurobeat
12:18 destroyed me LMAO
Where i live we had school starting in January and ended in the 10 or 12 day of December and summer vacation didn't exist
Yeah driving in Bangkok or Thailand in general is quite the spectacle
American High school students NEED cars because of how their suburban infrastructure is made so that it develops a car dependant society. They have little amount of public transportations or street to walk to school and everything is decentralized so you need to drive long distances to get there.
Not really. You don’t need a car cus there’s school buses that go to every neighborhood for the kids who’s parents can’t take them cus they are already at work in the morning or if they don’t have a car. That’s mostly how it is throughout the US, I grew up in the Midwest in Indiana
Hold on .... no no no no
The school year in the UK ends mid-July not August. Our summer holidays are 6 weeks long.
summer holidays in uk are during summer because kids use to have to help with harvest i believe
Had the exact same experience as Connor. Actual pain in the ass
Dude I took a class in highschool then got my license in like a week for only 20$ and passing a written and driving test the first time.
Garnt and Connor confused in southern hemisphere lol
Ok, BMW drivers don't have turning lights. That's a fact.
3 MONTHS?!?!
In my country it's 2 months for the younglings and in university it's 2 weeks for this one school and 3-4 weeks in another.
Where are you from? Here in the US school year would start in august then we’d have 2 week Christmas/new year break come back like January 7th then have 1 week of spring break in April then the school year would officially end the very end of may or beginning of June and we’d be off till august again for summer break.
ah yes like always connor lives in a different univers from the rest of us
The time I need to study traffic law to get my driving license I realize that me and everyone around me just completely throw most of the law away, if you don't hit anyone and acting like a normal person on the road then you are good to go here
lmfao what driving test? theres a lot of fixers in sea 😂
those people just had a better spawn
I was like the second kid of my class to get his driver's permit at age 16 and I was so hyped to finally drive myself to school but out of fucking no where the others started to get theirs and all the senior parking spaces got taken up and I had to park with the others of my class who didn't catched spots as well like a street away from our school luckily it was literally around the corner
Learnt
Interesting
Being born in July is so troll
I was listening to the podcast as I was driving to my highschool 😭😭(I’m an American)
8:20 -
US schools get three months off for summer….Right..??
For me, its a little over two months.
Depends on where you live in the U.S. For me, school started first week of August and ended first week of June.
And I learnt how to differentiate between a man and a woman in Thailand.
If ur driving in SEA, u must (in old master voice) feel all the cars around u. Remember to thanks God if the road is congested - it means ur safe .
Jan- Dec school year is superior
As an Aussie, I agree and in my mind it makes the most sense as January is the first month of the year and December is the final month of the year. It just simply makes sense
Yeah, I have to agree, you end the year with a good feeling of "yeah I finally passed this grade" still don't understand why my country didn't adapt it, especially living near the equator where there are no significant changes between dry and wet seasons
Halfie, grew up in BKK - I concur. Jaywalking was literally the only way to cross / mass mob gather til eventual yield
As an American- yall have to pay for lessons in the uk? 👁👄👁
Here in the states you can just pull up and take the drivers test, as long as you can pay for it and pass, that’s all you need. You Don’t need to have have lessons at All
glad I have good public transportation and don't need to drive
I'd see Land Cruisers be dickheads and drive like they own the road and I'd go "ah, Land Cruiser moments" which would be okay if I didn't drive a 2009, 3-door Prado.😂
Luckily i have an asian mother whos really good at driving her dad can’t say that for him
Fun fact: in Russia it's totally opposite to England
We have 3-month holidays in schools in summer
And 1-1.5 months in university (in summer)
Christmas holidays are pretty the same
Sheesh, I'm so jealous lol, we barely got 1 month as holidays in school, and winter break was non-existent for us. In university, (ig it's because of covid too, but not really) we barely get 1 day off between semesters. Sometimes I wonder how I even function lol, and we need min 75% attendance for all subjects so no skipping either. ;')
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Theory lasts 2 years? It lasts like 90 days in Sweden. They had to extend it because of Covid.