subject: Drivers On The Proper May Have A Trivial Edg [print this page] You need to familiarize yourself with international road signs. Most are pictographs, and that's a good thing, because if you were driving in Greece, they'd all be Greek to you otherwise. That was a bad pun, but you should get what I'm saying. Do a little research for driving in foreign places.
Review what those signs mean. You can buy some guidebooks and maps to learn more, it is disgusted to driver when they drive down the street, they happen to see a red sign means "Do Not Enter".
What the meaning of the driving customs? Which sign means pass and which sign mesns not pass? If you don't know how to distinguish these, the simple way is to observe how the local drivers do, and you just need to imitate from them. Back to Greece, when the truck drivers were telling us it was safe to pass, they stuck their left arm out, now in the U.S., that's the old arm signal for turning left. It took us a couple of days to figure out that they weren't turning, just waving us around.
When driving on the freeways with multiple lanes, don't just cruise along in the fast or left lane. Europeans really do use the faster lanes for passing. Our European friends are always surprised to find slower drivers just staying in any lane of the freeways and never moving over for faster cars. Americans should take a lesson here.
Sometimes, you may drive on the different side of the road which you never happen to this. Drivers on the right may have a slight edge, but throughout the world it's pretty evenly split for who drives on the left and who drives on the right. If you're driving on the "wrong" side of the road for you, you'll need to pay even more attention.
Drive carefully. Don't let local drivers press you to drive faster than you're comfortable. If someone flashes their lights at you, pull over, and let them pass. To the skillful driver, if they find you are still drive on the same lane, they can easily get ahead of yours. Don't let your ego get in the way, they've had more practice.
You should take care of that the speed limits and distances are measured differently in the geographical region. In most countries, you will find that certain distances are metric, so the speed will have limits. The miles are also be used in the United States of America. The average speed limit on U.S. freeways is 65 miles per hour. That translates to 105 km/h. After the speed is posted, so when you are driving, you should pay attention to the speed limits. But if you want to have a certain distance between the former car, you can use roughly 0.6 mile per kilometer or 1.6 kilometer per mile. If you want to have fun from driving in the foreign places, you should know these knowledge clearly.
