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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Driving in USA - what we Indians can learn from Americans

I just passed my driving knowledge exam and will soon start taking driving exam before I give my practical exam . Driving here is a lot safer as compared to India although cars are lot faster here . The average speed on highways is nearly 70 mph which comes to 112 km/hr while cars hardly travel at 70 km per hour on highways in india.
The emergency vehicles have a right of way. Most people will die on their way of hospital or the house will get burned down before the fire brigade arrives in India. Not here . People pull over to the right side of the road (here you drive in opposite direction) and stop . All the cars out there give way and make sure emergency vehicles reach to their destination as soon as possible....
Driving is very pleasurable. No honking of horns unless it is an emergency. People drive at one speed in their own lane. Seperate lane for motorbikes. The road gets constructed extremely fast here and hardly you see bad roads. An array of road signs to help you in every possible way.
The businesses ( shops ) are required to have proportionate parking space for vehicles. That means you will never have any parking problems . Also a seperate parking area for disabled people.
Good traffic engineering allows less wait times at signal . Go left (right in india ) if there is no oncoming traffic.
Hey best part for pedestrians . One yields the way for pedestrians if they are crossing the road near signals or businesses parking spaces . One cant imagine a similar situation in India where you can die if you try to go before on foot before a vehicle .
Stop behind a school bus if it has a red signal behind it . YES traffic light attached behind a school bus. :)

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