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Mad respect to you! I've got not issue with driving on vacation as long as the people are driving on the "right" (both figuratively & literally) side of the road ;)
Thanks for posting, Jen. I have done what you did in reverse. Driving on the left now terrifies me! A friend of mine learned in the Netherlands and didn´t know why the car suddenly started to slow down in Belgium until her partner explained you have to change down when going up a hill....
When I visited London many years ago, I found crossing busy streets a challenge. If you are used to right hand traffic, left hand traffic will be crazy. I hate roundabouts.
I’m learning to drive now (I’m 30) because I couldn’t in the past for medical reasons in the past. I remember my Danish ex saying he could never drive in here in Ireland or in the U.K. because of people walking across randomly. I’m moving to Quebec soon so I will have to do it all over again, on the right hand side and in French, at least Ireland uses KM but for oddly my driving instructor’s car is in MPH with KPH in smaller letters (apparently it’s in an import), it throws me off as do the hill stars here too as well as awkward stop signs on country roads 😬
I completely understand that. When I was confronted with having to drive in the UK, I personally didn´t expect it to be too much of a problem. Working in the automobile industry I`m used to drive cars of different makes and manufacturers frequently and I`ve also previously driven UK spec right-hand cars in german traffic, felt okay. What can I say? I was wrong and sitting on the right and driving on the left was surprisingly challenging. We drove through small villages in Bedford and I`m afraid my english colleague had a tough time in the passenger seat. Sorry! 😅 Putting extreme care on giving approaching traffic enough space, I found myself constantly too much on the left, with houses too close for comfort.
There are serious discussions going on, and trials in some areas, of reducing the speed limit in built up areas from 30mph to 20. The main reason for this is that if a kid runs out into the road, as they often do, and you hit them at 20 then they are twice as likely to survive as if you hit them at 30. My first ever emergency stop was for that exact reason, a kid ran out into the road ahead of me chasing a football. It shocked my driving instructor who had been concentrating on filling his pipe at the time (it was the early 1990s when regulations around smoking weren’t as tight) but he complimented me of my observation and reactions. A lot of people struggle with hill starts, it’s just practice. When I first started learning to drive, because of the area I lived in, practically every start was a hill start so I got good at them fairly quickly.
This is actually something I find kind of confusing, but it's my understanding that even on residential roads, if there are no signs, it's 30mph. In Germany residential roads are either a 30kmh (18.6mph) zone or a 'Spielstraße', which means no cars are allowed at all. Most 'non main roads' I see in the UK are extremely narrow and full of parked cars so I find it hard to believe you are allowed to speed through at 30mph. I was always taught to stay in 2nd gear in residential roads in Germany. So I think it would be good if they changed it to 20mph in those areas.
West Lothian trialled 20mph zones in all residential areas (so 30mph to 20mph everywhere with street lights more or less). They have since went back to 30mph in most places. Whereas City of Edinburgh did 20mph zones and more or less have kept them all (no idea if they got data to say it was worth keeping them or it's still ongoing)
@@JenDre I think to a degree it's down to the fact that when the limits were set not every family had a car, even in suburban upper working class areas, and few had more than 1. I remember growing up in the 1970s out of our road of about 170 houses (upper working class/lower middle class, 3 bed semidetached houses built in the 1930s) about a third didn't have a car at all and there were only two that had two cars, in both cases the second car was a work car. People kept their car on the driveway so roads weren't obstructed most of the time. Now it seems that most houses have at least 3 and later built areas seem to have narrower roads, so roads and pavements are frequently narrowed down to a single lane. Where I live now was laid out during the war and the roads were laid from German and Italian PoWs. As the government were keen to cram more homes in per acre of land the roads and pavements are much narrower than where I grew up. Interesting side note, well interesting to me anyway, many of the German former PoWs, in particular those whose former homes were now in East Germany under the Soviets, came back with their families to settle and built the houses along the roads they'd laid a few years previously. When my Dad started school in 1947 nearly half his class were German so most of the English kids became quite fluent, especially in anything to do with football.
I'm mostly familiar with the Victorian residential roads with terraced houses, of which none have driveways - seems incredibly counterintuitive that they'd be 30pmh zones
@@JenDre Here in Ireland many residential streets are becoming 35kmh (21.88mph) roads, down from 50kmh (31.25mph). Like with the UK 30 limit many 50kmh limits are not signed with repeater signs but must have the street lights 25m apart. Unlit or ones with wider spaced lights are signed.
They love a roundabout 😂 totally agree, absolutely hate the massive ones with the traffic lights. I’m surprised sometimes that the supermarkets, gyms and parks aren’t a round walkway with a one-way system and speed cameras.
Backing up on those tiny country roads to let cars pass and all those round-a-bouts, wow. Now you can drive anywhere! The roads are sooo narrow in the UK. Good for you on learning a new skill and with a manual car as well! Now you can take a road trip and show us around. Glad you are posting again. How's your doggie?
I am old enough to have driven on Motorways before the blanket 70 mph limit was imposed and had a car that was capable of maintaining in excess of 100 mph, scary when most were going much slower. Some Police forces had to buy a certain sports car (Daimler SP250) just to be able to effectively police them. The criminals often had faster cars.
I think i had a similar experience, i never wanted to drive and didnt want to have a car at all - and i was quite a fearful driver. Did my license, but that was it. At one point i then inherited a car from my granduncle and it was kind of like "oh i keep it because the insurance deal is so good and maybe it might be helpful to move stuff around". Cue forward to 3 y later, i drove several >1000 km journeys, through mountain passes, onto icy glaciers with snowchains, offroad gravel streets with 30 cm deep potholes and steep ascends, windy, narrow roads where you could go only 1-2 cm left and right. Oh and regularly the autobahn! I think confidence comes quickly with some practice, granted, driving on the left sounds stressful. Maybe you plan to have a roadtrip :D? Btw i heard from my gf, that you should park your car on neutral in UK, because people try to bump into it to make parking space? Is that still a thing?
Things that are a bit annoying about driving here in Germany: 1) Being supposed to indicate turning right or left just because the main road you are continuing on happens to bend around one way or the other. 2) Not being allowed to just swerve across the road and park in the "wrong" direction (perfectly OK in the UK) Apart from that it's fine 😀
I feel this so much 🙈 we’ve just visited Devon and Cornwall… these narrow streets were my biggest issue 😅 And I hate the speed limit in the UK 😂 you can’t overtake someone when they are under the speed limit. Great video 👍🏽
Milly, you can overtake if it is safe to do so. You are allowed to go faster than the speed limit whilst overtaking, but you must slow down to the speed limit again once you have fully overtaken the slower car.
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I drive regularly in Germany (mainly the south), one observation is that German drivers stick to the speed limits more than the UK because of "blitzys" (automated speed cameras) appearing without warning and they are everywhere! Drivers also never say thank you 🤣
Have all your transport modes completely reversed? I am curious. Did you use a car in London (going with someone else) or a bike? Do you use a bike in Rochester? Or busses? Or are the timetables useless? Or are the roads too narrow or too hilly to bike? Or is the car simply too convenient? Maybe worth an additional video if you like.
London or any big city is awful to drive in and more likely to have a crash. I live in Sussex and have an old 3ltr BMW 530D and my insurance is £36 a month... Scotland would be a great place to drive not towns or cities.
Hi Jen, I'd suggest you have a few lessons with the best driving instructor you can find, to give you confidence and correct your faults. In spite of any aggressive drivers you may have had the misfortune to encounter, the UK is the third safest country to drive in in the world. Only Norway and Ireland are safer. I have mixed feelings about bringing in speed limits for the whole autobahn system in Germany. On the one hand I have enjoyed watching videos of Porsches been driven at close to 200 miles per hour on unrestricted sections of the autobahn. Although that was with an experienced racing driver at the wheel. On the other hand I have seen numerous videos of accidents, often fatal, where speeding was the direct cause of the accident. My feeling is that there should be a speed limit on all autobahns for the normal driving licence holder. The average person doesn't have the skills needed to control a car at high speed. But that there should be a super-licence for people who can prove they have sufficient skill to drive at high speeds and they and only them should be allowed to drive at unrestricted speeds on the autobahn, when it is safe to do so.
I might have done so but due to the Covid backlog it's almost impossible to book driving lessons in the next 6 months - also I don't really have the spare cash right now, and now I don' feel I need them anymore, as I've been driving independently for some months. The only time I was close to an accident was actually not my fault - someone just shot out of a road where they had to give way onto the main road I was driving on. But I managed to swerve around them - very scary though.
@@JenDre Statistically the most dangerous time for a driver is the first 18 months after they get a licence. That is when people feel confident, but don't have a huge amount of experience. So I'd suggest being ultra cautious driving for the next two years or so, whilst you build up experience of driving in the UK. To add to what I said above, statistically each year you have roughly a 1 in 20,000 chance of being killed driving on the roads of the UK. In Western Europe your chances of being killed each year vary from about 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 12,000. Germany you will be pleased to hear is at the safer end of that statistic. In the US your chances of being killed in a car crash each year are about 1 in 6,000! Much worse than in Europe. But not as bad as Ukraine (before the war) there your chances of dying in a vehicle accident each year are a shocking 1 in 800! I mentioned above about my idea for a super-licence to be able to drive at unrestricted speeds on the German autobahn. We have an advanced driving test here in the UK. Sadly it doesn't allow you to break any speed limits! But it does get you cheaper insurance and other benefits.
Ah yes I drive carefully for sure. I'm not exactly a new driver as I've held my license for 12 years - I might have not driven regularly the whole time, but once I got a hang of left hand traffic the rest did kind of come back to me :D And the US might be the worst country to drive in weirdly - The roads are so wide and all but I've seen the most dangerous driving ever there in the least road safe cars, with people texting and not wearing seatbelts etc.
However skilled a driver you are, and however fast your road car is - you’re not dressed in protective fireproof clothing, your car is not designed to withstand crashes in excess of 150 mph. There are no tyre barriers or gravel areas to run off on. There are no ambulances or stewards standing by, waiting to whisk you to hospital in the event of an accident. Racing speeds should be reserved for racing cars and race tracks only.
@@JenDre I feel sorry for him. The guidlelines were introduced because car manufacturers will not guarantee the accuracy of the speedometers. However, there is a risk if you challenge a speeding ticket a court may enforce a higher penalty! Either way the motorist gets hit.
Yeah it definitely made me extremely aware of driving at or under the limit. They're really sneaky here in Medway specifically, always got mobile ones after hills etc. I actually went down a hill a few days ago and saw the permanent Truvelo flash - I hope it wasn't at me as I was literally going 29mph. But they're also positioned right at the end of a hill hidden by tree branches to catch anyone out who doesn't know the area...
@@JenDre That penalty seems rather harsh for such a low speed, especially the three points on the licence. Speeding fines are supposed to help improve safety. But, from what I've read, it seems that some councils are using speeding fines to enhance their revenues!
Luckily you don't live near Swindon with its magic round about, haha. They go anticlockwise round the inner island like in Germany, for me that's not "magic" that's scary (being from a right-side-driving country). Apparently it even scares Brits (see Wikipedia). I like your opinion on speed limit in Germany. It's cool (there are even tourist packages!) and I also benefited several times, but saftey should be the first choice. But I am not German, so your opinion counts more - we will see the outcome of the disscusion in Germany. I once read, there are other countries with no speed limit but none of them have proper roads to go that fast.
Swindon is not the only place that has a giant two directional roundabout with smaller ones for the exits, the theory being one takes the most direct route to the required exit.
time to check the stats more carefully regarding german autobahn or fatal accidents cause the UK have what amount of heavy truck / lorry traffic compared to germany ? Ah UK must be the big european cross or hub where every lorry gets through like in germany from the scandinavian countries to italy and from Poland and Baltic state to the Netherlands or France and Belgium. And these lorries cause heavy accidents with a high fatality rate rushing into cars at the end of traffic jam just killing 8 by crushing those 3 cars to a 3 m block. 8 innocent killed and the polish truck driver had been drunk reading his phone in that moment cause he had swiped in the second of the crash and has been convicted to jail. Check the cold war german autobahns from east to west : close to zero traffic to Holland. You could go from Osnabrück to the dutchh border roughly 100 km in less than 25 minutes fully legal. Yes, needs some experience to drive so far and to know the car pretty well, but ones you are used and trained you now the conditions that are needed for that quite well like good tyres and dry streets not too much traffic or wind. And if you drive 50.000 km and even more a year you are trained quite well - without a single accident I had caused in the 20+ years of driving. And it makes a difference to drive a small car or a big twelve cylinder engine at certain speeds and above , also the safety and assist systems have improved a lot that are not available in a twingo at least the 2021 one I had tested a year ago that broke down with a dead bms (was an electric one) compared to the e-Up from VW. But that had been part of a job from time to time as changing my car every 6 months due to high milages cause 6 months old 25000 km was a lot for here. I still enjoy driving fast from time to time if needed or wanted but I also look for the consumption cause at the end even with a big EV and its 110 kWh battery like in a Mercedes EQS high speed eats range pretty quickly. I can do 660 km with a full battery at 120 km/h or I can drive 330 km if drive about 220 km/h but that has always been the same cause the big 12 cylinder could be driven about 9 liter and beyond 25 liter / hkm - it simply depends.
@@JenDre belive on the king of Kings and lord of Lords Yahushua Yahuwah Jesus the christ the living word of almighty Yahuwah that came down from heaven the Holy one of Israel King of Israel saviour and Redeemer the Lord of hosts the one true living God the great I AM and ye shall be saved halleluyah praise the king forever and ever amen
I always wondered why automakers provide speeds of 140-160 miles an hour, when this speed can't be achieved on the roads of the US since it is against the law.
Well done......i wonder if you swear in German or English at a large multi lane roundabout......don't worry if you mess up at a roundabout.....stay in lane, if it;s the wrong exit,you can turn around at the next one.Buy a cheap sat nav.....the 3D map shows all the lanes well in advance. For a first time speeding offence, they offer a course....it's very informal,just agree with everything for an easy life............The letter informing you of a speeding offence is scary . They wording and tone make it clear,you are a criminal.......I quickly booked a course before they could came around with handcuffs.
@@JenDre If the clutch is a cable operated one, ensure it is regularly lubricated by using a cable lubricator, will require removing it to do so but will prevent a heavy clutch and premature breakage. Many main dealers will omit to do it during a service unless reminded.
Belive on the king of Kings and lord of Lords Yahushua Yahuwah Jesus the christ the living word of almighty Yahuwah that came down from heaven king of Israel the Lord of hosts saviour and redeemer the holy one of Israel the true and living God the great I AM and ye shall be saved halleluyah praise the king forever and ever amen
Ich habe angefangen deine Deutschen Videos zu sehen und finde deine Einstellung wirklich großartig. Ich werde auch nach England ziehen und freue mich noch viele Tipps von dir zu erhalten❤
Came back to visit your channel. Yay! I find your vlogs interesting. Thank you Jen.
I really like the topics of your new videos 😊
Hi Jen,
I always enjoy your videos, you always have such an interesting perspective on things. It would be nice to hear from you more often.
Well done Jen!
Mad respect to you! I've got not issue with driving on vacation as long as the people are driving on the "right" (both figuratively & literally) side of the road ;)
Thanks for posting, Jen. I have done what you did in reverse. Driving on the left now terrifies me! A friend of mine learned in the Netherlands and didn´t know why the car suddenly started to slow down in Belgium
until her partner explained you have to change down when going up a hill....
Ah yes especially if you drive a small car with little horse power :D
@@JenDre Yes, a small French one...
My old Twingo didn't even have power steering so reverse parking was great fun.
@@daseteam Or a CVT Daf.
@@JenDrefree resistance training! 😊
When I visited London many years ago, I found crossing busy streets a challenge. If you are used to right hand traffic, left hand traffic will be crazy. I hate roundabouts.
I’m learning to drive now (I’m 30) because I couldn’t in the past for medical reasons in the past. I remember my Danish ex saying he could never drive in here in Ireland or in the U.K. because of people walking across randomly. I’m moving to Quebec soon so I will have to do it all over again, on the right hand side and in French, at least Ireland uses KM but for oddly my driving instructor’s car is in MPH with KPH in smaller letters (apparently it’s in an import), it throws me off as do the hill stars here too as well as awkward stop signs on country roads 😬
I completely understand that. When I was confronted with having to drive in the UK, I personally didn´t expect it to be too much of a problem. Working in the automobile industry I`m used to drive cars of different makes and manufacturers frequently and I`ve also previously driven UK spec right-hand cars in german traffic, felt okay. What can I say? I was wrong and sitting on the right and driving on the left was surprisingly challenging. We drove through small villages in Bedford and I`m afraid my english colleague had a tough time in the passenger seat. Sorry! 😅 Putting extreme care on giving approaching traffic enough space, I found myself constantly too much on the left, with houses too close for comfort.
There are serious discussions going on, and trials in some areas, of reducing the speed limit in built up areas from 30mph to 20. The main reason for this is that if a kid runs out into the road, as they often do, and you hit them at 20 then they are twice as likely to survive as if you hit them at 30. My first ever emergency stop was for that exact reason, a kid ran out into the road ahead of me chasing a football. It shocked my driving instructor who had been concentrating on filling his pipe at the time (it was the early 1990s when regulations around smoking weren’t as tight) but he complimented me of my observation and reactions.
A lot of people struggle with hill starts, it’s just practice. When I first started learning to drive, because of the area I lived in, practically every start was a hill start so I got good at them fairly quickly.
This is actually something I find kind of confusing, but it's my understanding that even on residential roads, if there are no signs, it's 30mph. In Germany residential roads are either a 30kmh (18.6mph) zone or a 'Spielstraße', which means no cars are allowed at all. Most 'non main roads' I see in the UK are extremely narrow and full of parked cars so I find it hard to believe you are allowed to speed through at 30mph. I was always taught to stay in 2nd gear in residential roads in Germany. So I think it would be good if they changed it to 20mph in those areas.
West Lothian trialled 20mph zones in all residential areas (so 30mph to 20mph everywhere with street lights more or less). They have since went back to 30mph in most places. Whereas City of Edinburgh did 20mph zones and more or less have kept them all (no idea if they got data to say it was worth keeping them or it's still ongoing)
@@JenDre I think to a degree it's down to the fact that when the limits were set not every family had a car, even in suburban upper working class areas, and few had more than 1. I remember growing up in the 1970s out of our road of about 170 houses (upper working class/lower middle class, 3 bed semidetached houses built in the 1930s) about a third didn't have a car at all and there were only two that had two cars, in both cases the second car was a work car. People kept their car on the driveway so roads weren't obstructed most of the time.
Now it seems that most houses have at least 3 and later built areas seem to have narrower roads, so roads and pavements are frequently narrowed down to a single lane. Where I live now was laid out during the war and the roads were laid from German and Italian PoWs. As the government were keen to cram more homes in per acre of land the roads and pavements are much narrower than where I grew up. Interesting side note, well interesting to me anyway, many of the German former PoWs, in particular those whose former homes were now in East Germany under the Soviets, came back with their families to settle and built the houses along the roads they'd laid a few years previously. When my Dad started school in 1947 nearly half his class were German so most of the English kids became quite fluent, especially in anything to do with football.
I'm mostly familiar with the Victorian residential roads with terraced houses, of which none have driveways - seems incredibly counterintuitive that they'd be 30pmh zones
@@JenDre Here in Ireland many residential streets are becoming 35kmh (21.88mph) roads, down from 50kmh (31.25mph). Like with the UK 30 limit many 50kmh limits are not signed with repeater signs but must have the street lights 25m apart. Unlit or ones with wider spaced lights are signed.
They love a roundabout 😂 totally agree, absolutely hate the massive ones with the traffic lights. I’m surprised sometimes that the supermarkets, gyms and parks aren’t a round walkway with a one-way system and speed cameras.
There’s no traffic lights on roundabouts 😅
Backing up on those tiny country roads to let cars pass and all those round-a-bouts, wow. Now you can drive anywhere! The roads are sooo narrow in the UK. Good for you on learning a new skill and with a manual car as well! Now you can take a road trip and show us around. Glad you are posting again. How's your doggie?
I am old enough to have driven on Motorways before the blanket 70 mph limit was imposed and had a car that was capable of maintaining in excess of 100 mph, scary when most were going much slower. Some Police forces had to buy a certain sports car (Daimler SP250) just to be able to effectively police them. The criminals often had faster cars.
I think i had a similar experience, i never wanted to drive and didnt want to have a car at all - and i was quite a fearful driver. Did my license, but that was it. At one point i then inherited a car from my granduncle and it was kind of like "oh i keep it because the insurance deal is so good and maybe it might be helpful to move stuff around". Cue forward to 3 y later, i drove several >1000 km journeys, through mountain passes, onto icy glaciers with snowchains, offroad gravel streets with 30 cm deep potholes and steep ascends, windy, narrow roads where you could go only 1-2 cm left and right. Oh and regularly the autobahn! I think confidence comes quickly with some practice, granted, driving on the left sounds stressful. Maybe you plan to have a roadtrip :D?
Btw i heard from my gf, that you should park your car on neutral in UK, because people try to bump into it to make parking space? Is that still a thing?
That's Paris rather than the UK, the 4 P's, Paris Parallel Parking Procedure.
Things that are a bit annoying about driving here in Germany:
1) Being supposed to indicate turning right or left just because the main road you are continuing on happens to bend around one way or the other.
2) Not being allowed to just swerve across the road and park in the "wrong" direction (perfectly OK in the UK)
Apart from that it's fine 😀
I feel this so much 🙈 we’ve just visited Devon and Cornwall… these narrow streets were my biggest issue 😅
And I hate the speed limit in the UK 😂 you can’t overtake someone when they are under the speed limit.
Great video 👍🏽
Yeah I just realised 70mph is actually more like 110km/h. So I feel it's a little slow. I think 80mph maybe would be better.
Milly, you can overtake if it is safe to do so. You are allowed to go faster than the speed limit whilst overtaking, but you must slow down to the speed limit again once you have fully overtaken the slower car.
@@stevebarlow3154 ah thank you!!! Even on the motorway when there are speed cameras?
How do you make sure it’s not to much over the speed limit?
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The Isle of Man has no speed limit, unless the changed it recently
I drive regularly in Germany (mainly the south), one observation is that German drivers stick to the speed limits more than the UK because of "blitzys" (automated speed cameras) appearing without warning and they are everywhere! Drivers also never say thank you 🤣
I miss watching your videos... Where did you go? 😢
liz truss is thinking of taking the speed limit off UK motorways
I dont believe that as i don't think she's capable of thinking much at all.......
@@JenDre good point 🤣
Have all your transport modes completely reversed? I am curious. Did you use a car in London (going with someone else) or a bike?
Do you use a bike in Rochester? Or busses? Or are the timetables useless? Or are the roads too narrow or too hilly to bike?
Or is the car simply too convenient?
Maybe worth an additional video if you like.
London or any big city is awful to drive in and more likely to have a crash. I live in Sussex and have an old 3ltr BMW 530D and my insurance is £36 a month... Scotland would be a great place to drive not towns or cities.
Hi Jen, I'd suggest you have a few lessons with the best driving instructor you can find, to give you confidence and correct your faults. In spite of any aggressive drivers you may have had the misfortune to encounter, the UK is the third safest country to drive in in the world. Only Norway and Ireland are safer.
I have mixed feelings about bringing in speed limits for the whole autobahn system in Germany. On the one hand I have enjoyed watching videos of Porsches been driven at close to 200 miles per hour on unrestricted sections of the autobahn. Although that was with an experienced racing driver at the wheel. On the other hand I have seen numerous videos of accidents, often fatal, where speeding was the direct cause of the accident. My feeling is that there should be a speed limit on all autobahns for the normal driving licence holder. The average person doesn't have the skills needed to control a car at high speed. But that there should be a super-licence for people who can prove they have sufficient skill to drive at high speeds and they and only them should be allowed to drive at unrestricted speeds on the autobahn, when it is safe to do so.
I might have done so but due to the Covid backlog it's almost impossible to book driving lessons in the next 6 months - also I don't really have the spare cash right now, and now I don' feel I need them anymore, as I've been driving independently for some months. The only time I was close to an accident was actually not my fault - someone just shot out of a road where they had to give way onto the main road I was driving on. But I managed to swerve around them - very scary though.
@@JenDre Statistically the most dangerous time for a driver is the first 18 months after they get a licence. That is when people feel confident, but don't have a huge amount of experience. So I'd suggest being ultra cautious driving for the next two years or so, whilst you build up experience of driving in the UK.
To add to what I said above, statistically each year you have roughly a 1 in 20,000 chance of being killed driving on the roads of the UK. In Western Europe your chances of being killed each year vary from about 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 12,000. Germany you will be pleased to hear is at the safer end of that statistic. In the US your chances of being killed in a car crash each year are about 1 in 6,000! Much worse than in Europe. But not as bad as Ukraine (before the war) there your chances of dying in a vehicle accident each year are a shocking 1 in 800!
I mentioned above about my idea for a super-licence to be able to drive at unrestricted speeds on the German autobahn. We have an advanced driving test here in the UK. Sadly it doesn't allow you to break any speed limits! But it does get you cheaper insurance and other benefits.
Ah yes I drive carefully for sure. I'm not exactly a new driver as I've held my license for 12 years - I might have not driven regularly the whole time, but once I got a hang of left hand traffic the rest did kind of come back to me :D And the US might be the worst country to drive in weirdly - The roads are so wide and all but I've seen the most dangerous driving ever there in the least road safe cars, with people texting and not wearing seatbelts etc.
However skilled a driver you are, and however fast your road car is - you’re not dressed in protective fireproof clothing, your car is not designed to withstand crashes in excess of 150 mph. There are no tyre barriers or gravel areas to run off on. There are no ambulances or stewards standing by, waiting to whisk you to hospital in the event of an accident. Racing speeds should be reserved for racing cars and race tracks only.
ACPO Guidelines for speeding thresholds are still 10% +2 Mph I believe.
Apparently that's only a guide not a rule... My husbands last penalty notice was at 34mph in a 30. £100 + 3 points. 🥲
@@JenDre I feel sorry for him. The guidlelines were introduced because car manufacturers will not guarantee the accuracy of the speedometers. However, there is a risk if you challenge a speeding ticket a court may enforce a higher penalty! Either way the motorist gets hit.
Yeah it definitely made me extremely aware of driving at or under the limit. They're really sneaky here in Medway specifically, always got mobile ones after hills etc. I actually went down a hill a few days ago and saw the permanent Truvelo flash - I hope it wasn't at me as I was literally going 29mph. But they're also positioned right at the end of a hill hidden by tree branches to catch anyone out who doesn't know the area...
@@JenDre That penalty seems rather harsh for such a low speed, especially the three points on the licence. Speeding fines are supposed to help improve safety. But, from what I've read, it seems that some councils are using speeding fines to enhance their revenues!
Is it easier to drive in UK or in Germany ...like less road rage and so forth ?
Germany is way easier because of better roads
I HATE the narrow roads in the uk, horrendous
However Germans speed way too much and there should be higher fines for that. Its bloody dangerous
Luckily you don't live near Swindon with its magic round about, haha.
They go anticlockwise round the inner island like in Germany, for me that's not "magic" that's scary (being from a right-side-driving country).
Apparently it even scares Brits (see Wikipedia).
I like your opinion on speed limit in Germany. It's cool (there are even tourist packages!) and I also benefited several times, but saftey should be the first choice.
But I am not German, so your opinion counts more - we will see the outcome of the disscusion in Germany.
I once read, there are other countries with no speed limit but none of them have proper roads to go that fast.
I have heard of that roundabout - definitely avoiding that forever.
Swindon is not the only place that has a giant two directional roundabout with smaller ones for the exits, the theory being one takes the most direct route to the required exit.
time to check the stats more carefully regarding german autobahn or fatal accidents cause the UK have what amount of heavy truck / lorry traffic compared to germany ?
Ah UK must be the big european cross or hub where every lorry gets through like in germany from the scandinavian countries to italy and from Poland and Baltic state to the Netherlands or France and Belgium. And these lorries cause heavy accidents with a high fatality rate rushing into cars at the end of traffic jam just killing 8 by crushing those 3 cars to a 3 m block.
8 innocent killed and the polish truck driver had been drunk reading his phone in that moment cause he had swiped in the second of the crash and has been convicted to jail.
Check the cold war german autobahns from east to west : close to zero traffic to Holland. You could go from Osnabrück to the dutchh border roughly 100 km in less than 25 minutes fully legal.
Yes, needs some experience to drive so far and to know the car pretty well, but ones you are used and trained you now the conditions that are needed for that quite well like good tyres and dry streets not too much traffic or wind. And if you drive 50.000 km and even more a year you are trained quite well - without a single accident I had caused in the 20+ years of driving. And it makes a difference to drive a small car or a big twelve cylinder engine at certain speeds and above , also the safety and assist systems have improved a lot that are not available in a twingo at least the 2021 one I had tested a year ago that broke down with a dead bms (was an electric one) compared to the e-Up from VW. But that had been part of a job from time to time as changing my car every 6 months due to high milages cause 6 months old 25000 km was a lot for here.
I still enjoy driving fast from time to time if needed or wanted but I also look for the consumption cause at the end even with a big EV and its 110 kWh battery like in a Mercedes EQS high speed eats range pretty quickly. I can do 660 km with a full battery at 120 km/h or I can drive 330 km if drive about 220 km/h but that has always been the same cause the big 12 cylinder could be driven about 9 liter and beyond 25 liter / hkm - it simply depends.
I got a fine for going 34 in a 30 but took a course for £110 and got no points 😑
Yeah on first offense they let you do that but after that it's always points 🥲
@@JenDre belive on the king of Kings and lord of Lords Yahushua Yahuwah Jesus the christ the living word of almighty Yahuwah that came down from heaven the Holy one of Israel King of Israel saviour and Redeemer the Lord of hosts the one true living God the great I AM and ye shall be saved halleluyah praise the king forever and ever amen
I always wondered why automakers provide speeds of 140-160 miles an hour, when this speed can't be achieved on the roads of the US since it is against the law.
Avoid cameras and you'll never get fined at
You are still a beginner, the more you drive the easier it will become.
Well done......i wonder if you swear in German or English at a large multi lane roundabout......don't worry if you mess up at a roundabout.....stay in lane, if it;s the wrong exit,you can turn around at the next one.Buy a cheap sat nav.....the 3D map shows all the lanes well in advance.
For a first time speeding offence, they offer a course....it's very informal,just agree with everything for an easy life............The letter informing you of a speeding offence is scary . They wording and tone make it clear,you are a criminal.......I quickly booked a course before they could came around with handcuffs.
Do you have a manual or auto trans Jen? Just curious when you reference hill starts.
Manual
@@JenDre Ah, makes it that much more challenging. Fun.
the bite point on our car is quite high so i've deffo burnt the clutch once or twice in the beginning but now it's much better :D
@@JenDre An acquired art for sure, one advantage of an auto guess. Though still prefer a manual myself... Burnt clutch smell, distinctive. (:
@@JenDre If the clutch is a cable operated one, ensure it is regularly lubricated by using a cable lubricator, will require removing it to do so but will prevent a heavy clutch and premature breakage. Many main dealers will omit to do it during a service unless reminded.
Belive on the king of Kings and lord of Lords Yahushua Yahuwah Jesus the christ the living word of almighty Yahuwah that came down from heaven king of Israel the Lord of hosts saviour and redeemer the holy one of Israel the true and living God the great I AM and ye shall be saved halleluyah praise the king forever and ever amen