Those roundabouts will get you every time. Here’s Matt’s take on how Texas, Georgia, Alabama, and every other Southern state got their driver’s license.
As a Mississippi driver, I feel attacked. Just because the road I take as a shortcut hasn't been repaved since the Carter administration, is infested with suicidal deer and logging trucks driving seventy miles an hour doesn't mean I can't shave five minutes off of our three hour trip.
No they repaved it 2 years ago, it just looks like it hasn't been repaved since the Carter administration (lived and worked in Jackson for a few years).
@@alesiabradley5399 I've lived in both and I promise you Mississippi is worse....Jackson, at least is worse than anything else in the western world, urban or rural.
Another part of the Texas driving experience are all the different speeds people go on the highway. If the speed limit is 65, there’s always a guy going 45-55 in the right lane, a guy going 80+ in the left lane, and the lanes in the middle are reserved for anything in between that.
Lol so accurate. There is no such thing as a speed limit in Texas. People will normally drive 10 over the speed limit and not get pulled over. Also nobody in Texas knows how to drive if it freezes. They just drive the same.
I remember seeing SCDOT put a post on Facebook asking the residence which roads we wanted them to repave first. So i just circled the entire state on a map and sent that into them.
@@Circean161 Well bless yalls sweet little ole hearts, i had no idear its so expensive there. Drove through several times and would stop in a small town and have a picnic and walk around. It was always real beautiful! Then again most places ive lived or been out in the country was all very beautiful so theres that.
As someone who has lived 95% of their life in Texas, I would like to go on record and say that it is patently false to claim that most of us started driving when we were 3. I'll have you know, most of our parents were a lot more concerned with our safety than to let us behind the wheel at only three years old. Most parents waited until we were 8 or 9.
It sounded like my experience in rural Georgia on a farm over the summer when I was 9. I was driving a field truck in the pasture every day. I didn't even have to call my mama and ask lol
LOL. I grew up in the days before safety and when I was three my mother let me sit on a radio she kept in the front seat so I could see out and I would shift gears whenever she put the clutch in.
As a Floridian this is true. I was allowed to hit 3 curbs on my test and didn't need to parallel park. All the really bad drivers get weeded out on I-4
Love these stories... As a European driving for the 1st time in the US, I was applying the usual lane discipline on the road across Ohio and then up Michigan a way. Interstate was fine, once you realise the grassy bit in the middle is for cops with radars. Then we hit Michigan - Interstate suddenly blossomed to seven lanes a side, and the semis were all in lanes 4/5. Nobody in lanes 1/2/3. My Euro lane discipline put me in lane 1 and feeling superior... until we hit the first pothole. Not the 9-inch wide, 2-inch deep potholes I knew, but graves for the car - thirty feet by about a foot deep. The car survived two before I got into lane 6. The next junction had a place that served humble pie... Never been driving further south than Oklahoma, looks like I ain't going to!
We take purdy-good care of our highways here in Texas. Had one fella on vacation from Illinois (I really do like those folks) tell me he was so impressed with Texas Highways, he'd kneel down n' kiss 'em. I advised him not to, 'cause folks might mistake him for a speed bump. He looked at me funny and we ended up gettin' some cold-beers before he went on his way. I like them Chicago folks especially. Them l'il dickin's can sling a pistola just as good as most Texas. Most of 'em are easy tempered, and they love good BBQ. Unfortunately, they don't know how to make good bbq up there. I just tell 'em to come on down here, and eat till they pop. We love to have 'em to visit and enjoy themselves. Then go back to Illinois.
I was just telling a friend of mine in West Virginia the other day that strangely enough, the roads in Miami are really messed up, for no apparent reason! I'm from Pennsylvania but lived in the South for decades (Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Florida), and I'm back home in PA now. I understand why we have potholes and bad pavement here - mostly due to use of salt for snow & ice, and the extreme weather conditions that cause pavement to warp. I have ZERO idea why Miami has bad roads. Not just interstates - the Dolphin always seemed to be under construction - but residential streets were buckled (you might think it's the heat, but wouldn't they PLAN for that in their road mix???), warped, or even had potholes. In places like Coral Gables and Kendall, which are not poor areas, either, why are the roads so bad? I have no idea. I was told it's so the department of Transportation can ask for more money. I believe it.
Totally. I live right next to Texas (NM) and on any road from here, as soon as you cross into Texas the speed limit sign always reads at least 10MPH higher than it was.
where are these texas drivers? all of the ones who i've seen up in South Dakota go 5-10 mph below speed limit and sit at freaking red lights to turn green instead of turning right..
As someone who's only driven through there maybe a dozen times, I don't mind it. Only issues were on 285 at the I-20 interchange. And once I went north on 285 when I should've gone south.
Any time I have to go through Atlanta, I time it so that I reach the outskirts at 2 AM.....that way I can get through it without having a heart attack!
Exactly!! You need the strength of God himself and bit of luck if you want to deal with Atlanta traffic. And don't even get me started on rush hour or spaghetti junction.
I was born and raised in southwest Georgia where my family lived for generations. Recently moved to Atlanta and have to hear the Yankee transplants talk about "Georgia drivers"! I let em know REAL quick its out of staters like them that they're complaining about!
As a Texan, this is accurate. My final exam for drivers Ed, the teacher knew I knew how to drive and just had me drive him on some errands for an hour lol
That's EXACTLY what my instructor had us do. We drove him to the outlet store up 35, to his mom's house , to everywhere he had plans to go. He sat in the back seat reading a paper for most of the time. 🤠
Texas is scarily accurate. My alcoholic grandpa taught me how to drive his ATV on the dirt roads behind his house when I was 8 years old. My grandma said it would be safer if I drove him around his farm to help him with chores than if he went alone.
That Florida driving test was almost how I got my license here in Hawaii. I picked up the examiner from the cop shop (a Police Officer), who looked at his watch & said "Its lunchtime, drive me to the the restaurant drive through." I did, & he said; drive me back to the Police Station." When we got there (less than a block round trip), he said "Congratulations" and handed me my license. 😊 100% true story!
I was stunned at how little they made me drive in Colorado. I didn't even have to drive on a highway or into the mountains. I just did a loop around a few suburban streets and then parked in a parking spot (regular, no parallel parking either).
@@andrewbloom7694 In Florida they didnt even have me go onto the public road, it was all in the back lot of the DMV, they had me do a left turn, an acceleration to 20mph and a quick stop and it was done.
I'm from Louisiana, and what actually happens is that you learn to drive a boat first. Then you learn in a car. And after you pass the road test, you get the daquiri on your way home.
People driving 78 in a 65 section, making 5 lane changes in a single move without looking to get on an exit ramp that leads to Peachtree Court, Peachtree Road, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Avenue, Peachtree Drive, Peachtree Boulevard, Peachtree Boulevard Northwest (which is nowhere near Peachtree Boulevard), and Clarke Street.
As someone who lives in NC and travels to SC frequently, I felt this!! 😂 You can be sleeping in the passenger side and know immediately when you cross the line into SC!! 🤣 I can’t with these videos!! 🤣❤️
And why is all this so accurate?! 😭 Istg Floridians drive the Daytona speedway in FL but negative 50 in every other state 💀 like they're afraid of being stuck back in their native state by getting a ticket 🤭🤣 E: "Naw dude... Yo, I already did my time here.. check my records man!" 😂 Side Personal note to everyone: there are none of "prison" emojis or orange dressed people 😢 🦧🧡
A little while after watching this video, I was in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I was in a left turn lane. Looking up and down the line of cars, there was probably about a dozen cars and only 1 of them had their turn signal on.
Having lived in Tennessee for 4 years, I can not tell you how many accidents I barely avoided by someone changing lanes or pulling out in front of me by not using a turn signal. It’s 100% accurate for TN
I'm from Georgia and definitely felt that the GA part was accurate for me at the time I got my license! Now I live in Atlanta and the main thing that bothers me are the out of towners who try to get off the interstate at the last minute, or get out of an exit lane last minute. Those have been the closest calls for me - once I was exiting 75 N onto 20 and an RV that was parked in the median between the two roads suddenly started moving and just pulled right in front of me. No warning, no lights, no gradual speed up before merging in. Just suddenly an out of state RV cuts right in front of you from a dead stop. I honked at that guy for five minutes without stopping. The whole way over the overpass and all the way through the merge onto I-20 until he surrendered and took the next exit out of shame. I had to slam on my brakes so hard and pray the guy behind me would as well, and it's a miracle I'm still alive. I'd still be honking at that RV today if it was still around. On the other hand I try to always give way for people who need to merge and indicate it with their blinkers and I try to be extra generous about this with 18 wheelers so they don't end up in a bad spot. It's only when another driver is clearly trying to kill me with their car that my rage comes out.
My husband had to go to Louisville for work, and he said the amount of cars missing bumpers, fenders, and headlights was astounding. Is that a Louisville thing, or statewide? He ended up the designated driver by default, no-one else was brave/dumb enough. It's bern 8 years, and he still has flashbacks about "the Loop."
@@jlgavitt since 4/5 of Kentucky’s population is spread between the two cities,( Louisville and Lexington). I’d say that’s pretty accurate, there’s no one to run into out in the sticks.
Just drove on my first round about a few months ago. I went in circles for 5 minutes trying to get the hell out. I also do the same thing with hotel doors.😂
Here in the part of California where I live, they put a couple big roundabouts on the outskirts of a small city out towards where it turns rural and nobody was on the roads after midnight back then so when we were bored (teens and early 20’s), we’d just see how fast we could drive around the circle… or use it to scare the shit out of unsuspecting friends and/or our dates
Several years ago I lived in Florida while going to graduate school. When I went to get my Florida driver's license, I saw the elderly man in front of me taking his eye test--he kept failing and the woman behind the desk just kept telling him to try again:" Uhhh, E, D, no C, F...??" "No sir, please try again." Utterly terrifying that they would let that man on the road.
I just moved to Florida again after briefly living here for some volunteer work 10 years ago. My sister just came to visit and she tried to tell me at first that driving couldn’t be much different than where she lived on the west coast. I let her go on I-4. She changed her mind after that.
My grandfather had a stroke a while back. Went mostly blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. Still passed the eye exam in Indiana. Luckily, he had the good sense NOT to drive anyway.
As a local floridian I have my own fair share of stories that make me wonder how people got license as well. Hell the other day I was driving on my way to work and there was garbage truck on the road that was going along not particularly fast. Keep in mind that this road was only two lanes, one going one way, the other going the other. Suddenly the truck starts slowing down, turns its hazards on and starts honking. I figure that he is slowing down to turn down this one fairly small road coming up. The guy in front of me and one guy behind me go to pass, and I figure that at that point I was just going to wait till this guy was about to turn down the small road. And when he didn't turn down the road and instead passed it I decided that I was going to pass him. That is when he turns left. So I think that this dude is about to back into this road and back up to give him room. I had backed up about two car lengths from the road to let this guy back into the road. And instead of backing up he just sits there and keeps honking his horn. I back up again for only about half a car length and this dude finally decides to back into the road. But not entirely before he stops and blocks the road and decides to curse me out. He eventually does back the rest of the way into the road. But I more or less want to know what he thought I was supposed to do. He didn't directly turn down the road, he didn't use a turn signal, I gave him the room to back up. The fuck did this dude think I was supposed to do.
Livin’ in ATL, that part was absolutely comedy gold! The more I drive around here the more even a patient person like myself gets fed up with the shenanigans 🗿
I have seen it a few times here but yeah TN is actually accurate. I swear every time I get behind someone they just slam on their breaks and turn causing me to have to yell out the window at them that they don't know what a turn signal is. Of course I know to stay back a few car lengths but sometimes they'll break so fast right as they get to the turn that it pisses me off. As for me if someone is behind me I always use mine but no one around why bother.
As a Georgia resident he is far from wrong we don't go to Atlanta (Terminus) unless we have to. Also if you grew up in like rural like country Georgia you grew up driving four wheelers dirt bikes and trucks. I personally drove for the first time at the age of 4 and it was a dodge 1st gen dually gotta love granpa wanting to see you to drive while he can watch you drive. Also just gotta say it Go dawgs!
Took my test in Mississippi and we did not leave parking lot. Instructor got in and there were a lot of love bugs and we talked about that. And then she asked if I had experience and I told her I drove there by myself and she said good, let’s go inside.
@@liasherwood1230 Florida Panhandle driver test here - back in the early 70's. My instructor/tester had me go to I-10 and drive about 20 miles to the next exit and take Hwy 90 back to the station. I had taken Driver's Ed in school, and had gotten my Restricted License when I was 15,and we had been driving those same routes for the whole 4 weeks. I took my test in a Ford Falcon Station Wagon. My daughter took hers in my Ford F250 truck with the camper shell on the back.
In Mississippi I drove down the rural road about half a mile, turned into a church parking lot, turned around, and then drove right back to the DMV! Lol
As someone raised in North Carolina , the NC and SC parts earned my subscribe! You missed the part of leaving your car abandoned on the side of the interstate though for NC. For some reason the Charlotte area has more empty cars on the side of the highway then anywhere else I have ever been.
As an NC native and SC transplant for over a decade, those two had me cackling. I remember when I used to think I-40 was bad road. Oh *my god* nothing prepared me for the level of negligence in SC.
Agree. I don't understand it. I've lived in four other states, and never ever saw as many abandoned cars as the first month I lived in North Carolina. I don't understand. I've now far exceeded my lifetime expectation of abandoned cars. Also a heck of a lot of vanity plates.
As a South Carolinian that lives less than 10 miles from the North Carolina state line, I can testify that you are 100% correct about North and South Carolina. North Carolina move on over to the right lane when you are in South Carolina. We are use to the potholes so we set money aside for annual alignments.
Wow easy... it's always the SC drivers in NC that hog up the left lane, driving like a damn granny. Well actually, that is every damn state that is not NC... well that's how it is in the mountains.
@@brandonc6838 Ok,OK, I think I figured it out now. It's the tourist! They driving slow there looking at the beautiful mountains and driving slow here looking at the gaint crab statues in front of every seafood restaurant within 20 minutes of the beach.
Got my first license in Kentucky. I failed the first test because I "didn't drive backwards". We were on a steep hill...pretty much the whole state is made of hills. And the guy told me to go in reverse down the hill. So I did...I coasted down with my foot tapping the brake as any normal, sane person would do when going backwards down a hill. And he gigged me because I didn't accelerate down the hill using gasoline instead of the friggin force of gravity that was pulling me down faster than I really needed to go. Oh Kentucky...
Kentucky sounds more strict than Tennessee lol. I did mine in 09 or 2010 and I panicked when a light turned yellow and then red as i was going through. I just stopped right under the lights and she told me to keep going lol. She ask if I would of did that with her and I said no and she passed me 😂.
Texan here, This is right on the nose. Had to drag the grain cart as soon as I could maintain a conversation. Mom signed off on my home-taught driving school and I asked after my drivers test if I could do it again but in reverse.😂 Love your stuff👍🏽
As someone growing up in Virginia, you do not leave a car running ANYWHERE. Like there’s a reason there are so many used car dealerships that do under the table deals
Exactly. Even in SWVA it's not safe although people still do it for some weird reason. There was literally a news story this past weekend about a guy who stole 3 cars in one day. They managed to arrest him the next morning.
Yeah and, more importantly, several massive ports nearby. A lot of those stolen cars are going overseas. I’ve seen where people had trackers on their cars and within a few days after it was stolen, it was being driven around in the Middle East somewhere.
You forgot West Virginia! Instructor: “Ok, we’re approaching a blind turn that has one lane caved in and no guardrail to keep you from plunging off the mountain.” Driver: “It’s a good thing the Free Bird guitar solo just started.” *Puts petal to the metal*
@@bonedragon7665 Only the northern counties voted to leave Virginia. Where I’m from (the Charleston area) we voted to side with the South. Look up the Battle of Charleston for more details.
you might fail the test if you don’t stop at the trailer where the front door opens into the road. They had to move because the flood took out the driveway to the regular house. But it works better for the school bus pick up. Just drive around the dog, he’s usually chained up.
Georgia driver here, and I so relate. If you can avoid Atlanta, do so at all costs. You'll just be circling 285 forever until you run out of gas and the natives come for you.
Not from Georgia, but got a close friend in Bremen- gotta take 20 through Atlanta to see her. I've found "left lane it but NOT HOV" and "you better keep up with everybody else" is the best way to drive through there.. and NOT BEFORE 10AM and not AFTER 3PM
I lived in ATL metro for 25 years. Yes, it's REAL bad during the Rush Hours. And I mean Rush HOURS - from 5:30AM till 11:00PM, then the lunch rush sucks from 12:00 to about 2:00PM, then the trip home was bad from 3:00PM till around about 8:30PM. Unless there's a crash, then add a couple hours to ALL of those ... or if it rains. Or god-forbid snows. Or someone spits on the sidewalk at the wrong time and makes someone THINK it might rain ... Actually, just go around. It's better that way. OR drive only at night - but ONLY either REALLY fast in any lane you can reach without flipping the car or really damn slow in the left lane.
The North ain't much better. Driving tip for Pennsylvania: Take the posted speed limit, add 15, and that's the actual speed limit. And yes, that does apply when going down a steep mountain grade with a hairpin turn at the bottom; those cars in the trees were just folks God didn't love enough.
If your from PA where the rules don't apply to you If your from NJ and driving into PA subtract 15 from the speed limit as the cops will look for any excuse to pull you over
Don't forget when in Western PA if you move someone's lawn chair that they had reserving their parking spot in front of their home and then park there yourself they are allowed to legally beat your ass.
In Michigan the people you need to watch out for are Michiganders and people from that state that starts and ends with an o, especially at a yield sign as most seem to think that means the same as a green light. Michiganders will also go around you if they think you're going to slow in the middle of a busy city street nearly getting into a head on collision even in front of police stations. Be careful visiting here please.
😂😂 You have made my day with KY round about and traffic circle. My dad passed away w years ago but in Lexington he would go anywhere to get away from the round about to the New Circle road.. I loved it! But he loved one in Danville I hated!!😂😂
as a kentuckian i am ashamed to admit how many times their were tire marks over the roundabout in my neighborhood when they put it in. after a year of people continuing to plow through the flowers they put in the middle, they replaced it with a sign
I was really wondering what you were gunna say for Kentucky, and man you hit the nail on the head 😂 My little town just put our one and only roundabout in and I swear people get air going over the middle lol. Hilarious, good work sir 😂😂😂
I've spent a lot of time driving between GA and VA and folks in TN have only two speeds - Yokel slow and Insane. I have a knack for hitting Chattanooga during blinding thunderstorms and seeing the "locals" still going 80 on I75.
From South of Baton Rouge. When I got my license, I literally drove there to the DMV, went in and took my test, walked outside and pointed to my car, then they gave me my license. I’ve been driving since I was 10 and inherited my grandfather’s car when I was 14. Drove my grandma everywhere because she didn’t drive. License? I didn’t need no stinking license! That was a long time ago. 😂😂😂
Matt, you are a gem! Thanks so much for making me homesick! As a pastor, I was moved to north of the Mason Dixon line and although these folks treat me real well, I still miss the restaurants where you automatically get grits with breakfast lunch and dinner!
North Carolinian here. My instructor was feeling lazy, so he just had me drive to a neighborhood two blocks from the DMV, turn around, and come right back. But looking at the traffic on I-40 every day around 5:30, and I can tell _plenty_ of people passed the proper exam (or are from Florida. It's 50/50).
@@TheJoyBinkley When I got my car license back in 2003, Georgia didn't require getting on public roads at all. I passed the maneuvering test in the DMV parking lot and got my license.
Hello neighbor, craven Co here, thats the same drivers test I had but up until this moment I thought that was the norm... I'm 39 and have put 2 children through drivers ed and have also been their the reluctant passenger!
As a Texan, I can confirm our depiction as true. My first time behind the wheel was when I was 5, my aunt had picked me up from church on Wednesday night. Last mile to my grandparents', I sat in her lap and got to steer. I was driving atv's until I turned 11, then started driving my mom's car. Bought my mom's car at 14 for $500. Now I'm 18.
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Lived in that damn state for 14 years and got my first license there. Can agree. Hell, I would rather drive through Houston at peak rush hour than deal with NC “traffic”.
I remember taking the driver's test, getting on I-26 and going the speed limit in the right lane. I was clogging up the right lane and people were passing me left and right. I asked my instructor if I could go faster and she said," no then you'll be breaking the speed limit and I'll have to fail you." Jokes on her I've been going 10 over on interstates every time after that
Moved from Texas to Tennessee....and I was shooketh. I mean! These people! Bless their hearts they can NOT DRIVE! And that ain't no lie about Texas. Shoot I was backin' my grandma's car up at five. Driving it over cans at six and actually takin' her to Church by ten years old. Hell.
I'm from North Florida but my mother's family was from Alabama. I first got to steer sitting on Granny's lap at about 4. Then I was allowed to actually drive with an adult in the passenger seat on our unpaved country road at 9. Back when I took the test for my license you did actually have to do more than turn on the car but the only part I couldn't do was parallel park so I passed the first try. Mama tried to teach me to parallel park using two 5 gallon buckets in a field but it was pretty much the blind leading the blind.
For Virginia drivers the one thing you missed was, Instructor: “ Oh, someone in front of you has their blinker on cause they are turning. So now you gotta put your blinker on to let the people behind you know that the person in front of you is turning. Driver: “Even though I ain’t turning too?” Instructor: “Yup, cause that’s the law!” Driver: “Ok, so I just speed away and turn it off after they’ve turned, right?” Instructor: “Yup, your a natural!”
@@shartsmcginty8056 Nope, you see it from below Charlottesville to the North Carolina border. As far as NOVA, that’s the North, we no longer claim them.
As a Texan, the driving since he was 4 is accurate for the smaller and smaller number of us from truly small towns, ranches or farms. For the rest of us, it’s more like taking your life in your hands when getting on I-35. If the construction doesn’t get you, the Mad Max Fury Road-wannabes will.
I just witnessed a beautiful sight yesterday: one of those Fury Road wannabes pulled over by a cop. His buddy didn't get tagged too (that time) but it was still a sight to behold.
As someone who passed their driving test in Florida with 2 hours of sleep and nearly got into a head-on collision during the test, I can confirm that that is how Florida driving tests work
It really depends on the person in Florida but it's super easy I turned with one hand and never used a blinker and teh lady was like you didnt crash so you pass
KY native. NC transplant. I-77 comment for NC is 100% accurate. For KY, I've never seen anyone take a roundabout like that, but a concrete median is ABSOLUTELY considered a two-way turning lane.
I saw it happen in Ohio but they had Kentucky plates. He let his passenger out, and she was drunk as hell. Somehow he was sober, and destroyed his Malibu. I think it was less a Kentucky thing and more a Malibu driver thing.
The Georgia one was PERFECT! I grew up in the Atlanta area and let me tell you, that is the SCARIEST place to learn how to drive. Also you forgot that in Kentucky, they make a road one and a half lanes wide, slap a line down the middle and call it a two lane road. Then everyone flies up and down it in their giant trucks at like 10 miles over the speed limit.
I used to work all over the US, and Atlanta is a top contender for my most hated place to drive. Florida is fine, just get by grandma. I like Texas, the road system is great. Michigan ice and potholes? I'll handle those in a light, rear wheel drive sports car. LA rush hour is slow, but you can usually detour through the hills and have nice scenery. I'll even take Massholes over Atlanta.
@@gnollman The first time my mom and I drove in KY, we were driving in the dark and of course there were no street light, so my mom's driving around yelling "Where is the road?!!" I thought it was hillarious until I tried to drive at night and almost went off the road.
Depending where in SC you can ask most of those people if they are from SC and unfortunately most of them aren’t they are either from Ohio (they sure like SC for some reason) other northern states or midweste (I prefer them over any other people). It’s sad but true. And yes the potholes is still an issue, at this point it’s a tradition.
I learned on a rainy day, on the 210 Pasadena Fwy between San Dimas and Glendale both ways...white knuckle learning that was! Only those that have ever driven on a Freeway in the Los Angeles area during a rain storm will know what I mean,
That's just a farm kid, I learned to drive when my feet could reach the pedals. And we didn't have those wimpy automatics, I had to bang gears with a Datsun diesel 1-ton
Lol that's so true! In high school our coaches were also drivers ed instructors. We did one 3 point turn and spent the remaining 2 weeks going through the McDonald's drive through!
@@theannoyingdahg It was when I got my license in the 90s, pass the written test. demonstrate your blinkers, do a three point turn, and drive around the block, here's your license.
@@TheBaldr they made me log i think 8 hours with an hour and a half per day and we practiced a 3 point turn for that last half every day XD guess what though i know how to make a three point turn so i guess it worked
as a Floridian my grandma from West Virginia taught me how to parallel park thank goodness, but for my driving test a big part was proving I could pull into and out of a regular parking spot… and for some reason explain how to park on a hill… in Florida…
They were preparing you, in case you decide to ever visit Spook Hill. Though considering the bizarre physics of that place, it'd probably defy anything that was taught in that test anyways.
For Tennessee you should've included how the cops don't care if your going 80 in 45 and how at green lights people just sit for 30sec before moving which can drive you up the wall.
I took driving school in Jacksonville. The conductor had us drive to Maysville as one student and back to Jacksonville with the other student and that's how we passed
The Alabama one was fairly accurate, only you'd think ppl would slow down in the rain with their "flashers" on, but if anything they speed up. Like the hazard lights make it ok or something. But yeah I took my driver's test in this little shack in a small ass town with no dmv, drove a few blocks, did a 3 point turn and drove back and got my license.
At age 16 I was ready to take my driver's test. Not that I wasn't driving before - before front wheel drive became the norm - through snow and ice storms (and whiteouts) in Alaska. Learn how to parallel park between snowbanks. No big deal. But at the time of the test the instructor had me drive down an alleyway but wouldn't you know it, the Iditarod was on (dog sledding race from Anchorage to Nome) and sure enough, here comes a sled dog team barreling down the alley right at us. Not to mention my car wouldn't go in reverse but it would stop especially because I had studded tires on. But I still passed because I could parallel park - without reverse - in between snowbanks. Truly an art form. Such is life in the last Frontier.
Virginia here and, yeah. Every week some idiot is on the news complaining that his car was stolen from 7-11, and it's always because he left it running when he went inside. When I got my license, the instructor used his students as personal drivers. I drove him to the grocery store, the post office, and Hardee's.
@@Indigolily80 Haven't lived in Virginia for about 15 years now, but when I was a kid the big trend was people getting their cars stolen in winter while the engine was warming up.
MAAAAAN YOURE HILARIOUS!! Alabama was spot on & I cant remember if Tennessee didn't use signals or not because I had to numb myself to so much idiotic stuff! Finished the video and MAN that Florida is on point. Whenever I'm on the road and I just want someone in front of me to drive just a bit faster its always a Florida license plate!
The Tennessee depiction is 100% accurate. One of the few things other than driving around the block that you do for your test is showing that you know how to use your turn signal. I believe that's the last time most people use it as well.
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The Atlanta Interstate system was designed to confuse and defeat Sherman if he tried to burn Atlanta again. The perimeter (I-285) is really a trap.
You ain't lying.
🤣🤣That is just the best answer ever! Is the I-285 just a big parking lot?
Lol!! Damn Yankees!!🐝❤️🤗
That's a good one !
@@bieuxyongson it can be the biggest parking lot in Georgia, but mostly it’s an 80 mph demolition derby with 18 wheelers and bullets :)
As a Mississippi driver, I feel attacked. Just because the road I take as a shortcut hasn't been repaved since the Carter administration, is infested with suicidal deer and logging trucks driving seventy miles an hour doesn't mean I can't shave five minutes off of our three hour trip.
😃😄 I'm from South Carolina the land of very big potholes!
No they repaved it 2 years ago, it just looks like it hasn't been repaved since the Carter administration (lived and worked in Jackson for a few years).
@@alesiabradley5399 I've lived in both and I promise you Mississippi is worse....Jackson, at least is worse than anything else in the western world, urban or rural.
@@eikonise Some roads in Jackson have been paved recently (in the past 2 yrs) but with all the flooding, they may be back to their wholey states.
@@liasherwood1230 and so often when they repair potholes, they're back within a few weeks.
Another part of the Texas driving experience are all the different speeds people go on the highway. If the speed limit is 65, there’s always a guy going 45-55 in the right lane, a guy going 80+ in the left lane, and the lanes in the middle are reserved for anything in between that.
When I was learning to drive in the South, "lanes in the middle" were something we'd only heard about in science-fiction stories.
How it should be done tho. In Minnesota you can have 8 lanes and their doing 55 in all 8
they’re*
There’s also the guy that seems to think all the other cars are just auto cross pylons to weave in and out of as fast as possible.
Lol so accurate. There is no such thing as a speed limit in Texas. People will normally drive 10 over the speed limit and not get pulled over. Also nobody in Texas knows how to drive if it freezes. They just drive the same.
I remember seeing SCDOT put a post on Facebook asking the residence which roads we wanted them to repave first. So i just circled the entire state on a map and sent that into them.
Genius
I've seen them repave one small backroad near my house like 4 times in 8 years. But that pothole a few roads over could fit a double wide in it 😂
@@Circean161 Lmao imagine livin in a pothole! 😂😂😂
@@yomama...isaverynicelady it'd still be a $1800 rent if I know SC 😅
@@Circean161 Well bless yalls sweet little ole hearts, i had no idear its so expensive there. Drove through several times and would stop in a small town and have a picnic and walk around. It was always real beautiful! Then again most places ive lived or been out in the country was all very beautiful so theres that.
As someone who has lived 95% of their life in Texas, I would like to go on record and say that it is patently false to claim that most of us started driving when we were 3.
I'll have you know, most of our parents were a lot more concerned with our safety than to let us behind the wheel at only three years old.
Most parents waited until we were 8 or 9.
It sounded like my experience in rural Georgia on a farm over the summer when I was 9. I was driving a field truck in the pasture every day. I didn't even have to call my mama and ask lol
LOL. I grew up in the days before safety and when I was three my mother let me sit on a radio she kept in the front seat so I could see out and I would shift gears whenever she put the clutch in.
Just for the record he means 8 or 9 months
Ye, 3-6 is for fire arms, cars is for 8-9, they ought to fix this failure. (New movers do not count towards this count.)
@@jpf77302 When I was too little to reach the pedals, my dad would let me sit on his lap and steer. Of course, this was in the days before airbags.
As a Floridian this is true. I was allowed to hit 3 curbs on my test and didn't need to parallel park. All the really bad drivers get weeded out on I-4
My daughter took her driver's test in Florida and I was shocked she didn't have to parallel park.
@@zombiiesqueI didn’t have to parallel park because there’s only 15 parking spots in my city that require it, so the DMVs don’t have anyone do it
My brother did his road test in Florida, and I believe he was in a parking lot, and as long as he didn't hit any safety cones he passed
yep can't parallel park to save my life and messed up the 3 point turn and the backing up part. got my license. Still can't do any of those 3 things.
I-4 IS the REAL drivers test 🤣
Love these stories...
As a European driving for the 1st time in the US, I was applying the usual lane discipline on the road across Ohio and then up Michigan a way. Interstate was fine, once you realise the grassy bit in the middle is for cops with radars. Then we hit Michigan - Interstate suddenly blossomed to seven lanes a side, and the semis were all in lanes 4/5. Nobody in lanes 1/2/3. My Euro lane discipline put me in lane 1 and feeling superior... until we hit the first pothole. Not the 9-inch wide, 2-inch deep potholes I knew, but graves for the car - thirty feet by about a foot deep. The car survived two before I got into lane 6. The next junction had a place that served humble pie...
Never been driving further south than Oklahoma, looks like I ain't going to!
As a native Michigander now living in Ohio, I feel this so hard.
We take purdy-good care of our highways here in Texas. Had one fella on vacation from Illinois (I really do like those folks) tell me he was so impressed with Texas Highways, he'd kneel down n' kiss 'em. I advised him not to, 'cause folks might mistake him for a speed bump. He looked at me funny and we ended up gettin' some cold-beers before he went on his way.
I like them Chicago folks especially. Them l'il dickin's can sling a pistola just as good as most Texas. Most of 'em are easy tempered, and they love good BBQ. Unfortunately, they don't know how to make good bbq up there. I just tell 'em to come on down here, and eat till they pop. We love to have 'em to visit and enjoy themselves. Then go back to Illinois.
I was just telling a friend of mine in West Virginia the other day that strangely enough, the roads in Miami are really messed up, for no apparent reason! I'm from Pennsylvania but lived in the South for decades (Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Florida), and I'm back home in PA now. I understand why we have potholes and bad pavement here - mostly due to use of salt for snow & ice, and the extreme weather conditions that cause pavement to warp.
I have ZERO idea why Miami has bad roads. Not just interstates - the Dolphin always seemed to be under construction - but residential streets were buckled (you might think it's the heat, but wouldn't they PLAN for that in their road mix???), warped, or even had potholes. In places like Coral Gables and Kendall, which are not poor areas, either, why are the roads so bad? I have no idea. I was told it's so the department of Transportation can ask for more money. I believe it.
Why would you ever want to move to that hellhole@@claudiobeachball
I feel that. Michigan potholes hit DIFFERENT
For North Carolina, he forgot the 'pull up within a foot of his bumper, but don't pass him when you get the chance, unless he actually stops'.
Pretty accurate for TX, could’ve had him ask “what’s the speed limit?” And the instructor responds with “just get up to 80 to be safe.”
The Tobacco spit bottle did it for me, lol.
Also, it would be funnier if he took it back before 2010 when Texas had night and day speed limits.
Totally. I live right next to Texas (NM) and on any road from here, as soon as you cross into Texas the speed limit sign always reads at least 10MPH higher than it was.
@@rftulie i think you mean 30 minmum, if you're not going 30+ over the speed limit , you're going too slow and everyone will let you know
@@tylerweatherby7131 for sure, I just meant all the signage is at least 10 higher!
where are these texas drivers? all of the ones who i've seen up in South Dakota go 5-10 mph below speed limit and sit at freaking red lights to turn green instead of turning right..
As a Georgian, I felt this on a spiritual level. Driving in Atlanta is not for the faint of heart.
As someone who's only driven through there maybe a dozen times, I don't mind it. Only issues were on 285 at the I-20 interchange. And once I went north on 285 when I should've gone south.
Any time I have to go through Atlanta, I time it so that I reach the outskirts at 2 AM.....that way I can get through it without having a heart attack!
Every member of my family times their drives through Atlanta for the least traffic.
Exactly!! You need the strength of God himself and bit of luck if you want to deal with Atlanta traffic. And don't even get me started on rush hour or spaghetti junction.
I was born and raised in southwest Georgia where my family lived for generations. Recently moved to Atlanta and have to hear the Yankee transplants talk about "Georgia drivers"! I let em know REAL quick its out of staters like them that they're complaining about!
You got SC spot on, the potholes don’t end til you get to NC for sure!
S.C here 💯😜
NC was also spot on. I think people here wake up and think "Today I'm going to back up the highway."
@@MSKofAlexandria LOL! Yep they do, I lived there for 15 years.
S.C. reporting . So true .
For a dude from AL you sure nail the Carolinas every time
And that's what I appreciates about you
As a Texan, this is accurate. My final exam for drivers Ed, the teacher knew I knew how to drive and just had me drive him on some errands for an hour lol
And this, people, is an exemplary case of how Texas produces some of the worst drivers (if not people in general tbh) in the country....
That's EXACTLY what my instructor had us do. We drove him to the outlet store up 35, to his mom's house , to everywhere he had plans to go. He sat in the back seat reading a paper for most of the time. 🤠
I literally told the instructor to get out of my car during my exam. Lmao.
mine took a nap.
I’m from Colorado and we did our teacher’s errands with him and always, I mean always, went through the McDonald’s drive through.
Texas is scarily accurate. My alcoholic grandpa taught me how to drive his ATV on the dirt roads behind his house when I was 8 years old. My grandma said it would be safer if I drove him around his farm to help him with chores than if he went alone.
Same. ATVs and an old Yamaha G1 golf cart from the early eighties that just refused to die on the deer lease and in the yard.
Same, My father taught me how to drive an ATV when I was like 7 years old
Exactly this, but I had a tractor thrown in the mix
Same here, I was a little older , 12 years old and I started with my grampa old Chevy truck.
Dad had me driving his truck at 8yrs old.
Oh the Virginia one hits hard. I got stationed in VA back in 2010 and my truck was broken into within 8 hours of getting into the state. No joke.
Too close to Maryland.
Being from Georgia myself this guy hit it on the head because Atlanta takes a special kind of patience
That Florida driving test was almost how I got my license here in Hawaii. I picked up the examiner from the cop shop (a Police Officer), who looked at his watch & said "Its lunchtime, drive me to the the restaurant drive through." I did, & he said; drive me back to the Police Station." When we got there (less than a block round trip), he said "Congratulations" and handed me my license. 😊 100% true story!
Omg that’s hilarious!!!
You know what it is a very practical way of doing it. Now next time he might want to pick a farther restaurant but hey nearby is good
I was stunned at how little they made me drive in Colorado. I didn't even have to drive on a highway or into the mountains. I just did a loop around a few suburban streets and then parked in a parking spot (regular, no parallel parking either).
Is getting a license really that simple in Hawaii
@@andrewbloom7694 In Florida they didnt even have me go onto the public road, it was all in the back lot of the DMV, they had me do a left turn, an acceleration to 20mph and a quick stop and it was done.
I'm from Louisiana, and what actually happens is that you learn to drive a boat first. Then you learn in a car. And after you pass the road test, you get the daquiri on your way home.
got to leave the tape on the lid though so its "legal"
@@Waterfowl_Hunter985 Tape? Naw, we've moved beyond that. Its the top half of the paper on the straw now.
For the Atlanta, GA part? Spot on. I've had to drive through there twice in my life... it was hell both times.
People driving 78 in a 65 section, making 5 lane changes in a single move without looking to get on an exit ramp that leads to Peachtree Court, Peachtree Road, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Avenue, Peachtree Drive, Peachtree Boulevard, Peachtree Boulevard Northwest (which is nowhere near Peachtree Boulevard), and Clarke Street.
2:19 "We still have the Atlanta part!" SCREECH "Not Today! Lord did NOT give me enough patience for that!" "Perfect Score!"
As someone who lives in NC and travels to SC frequently, I felt this!! 😂 You can be sleeping in the passenger side and know immediately when you cross the line into SC!! 🤣 I can’t with these videos!! 🤣❤️
I live in SC near the NC border. This is a true story!
Exactly I’m near border rockingham
Same with driving into Oklahoma from Kansas.
As a South Carolinian, you definitely notice the difference as soon as you cross over into NC or GA 😅
When the mountains are gone, you know you're there.
In Florida, the first thing my driving instructor said was “Here’s what you’re gonna do. You are doing to turn your car on and put the AC to max.”
He must've been from Up North.
@@Maddog3060 Overtown, Miami.
@@Maddog3060snowbird 😂
And why is all this so accurate?! 😭 Istg Floridians drive the Daytona speedway in FL but negative 50 in every other state 💀 like they're afraid of being stuck back in their native state by getting a ticket 🤭🤣
E: "Naw dude... Yo, I already did my time here.. check my records man!" 😂
Side Personal note to everyone: there are none of "prison" emojis or orange dressed people 😢 🦧🧡
Don’t forget to avoid touching anything metal
A little while after watching this video, I was in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I was in a left turn lane. Looking up and down the line of cars, there was probably about a dozen cars and only 1 of them had their turn signal on.
They has KY tags
I choose to assume they thought being in a turn lane meant they didn't need a signal
I mean, they are in a turn lane. It essentially acts as the signal that you will be turning.
it was on when they bought it
Down here in Louisiana, a lot of people will do the turn signal not for their car, but for the car ahead of them.
As someone in SC that takes I-77 in NC often that I pure gold, I see it all the time 😂
Having lived in Tennessee for 4 years, I can not tell you how many accidents I barely avoided by someone changing lanes or pulling out in front of me by not using a turn signal. It’s 100% accurate for TN
That when install a train horn
Yo, same
I married a man from Tennessee and he is proof of this😂
And when someone is using a turn signal it's because they accidentally switched it on so you can't trust them
i feel attacked! its true but i still feell attacked
I'm from Georgia and definitely felt that the GA part was accurate for me at the time I got my license! Now I live in Atlanta and the main thing that bothers me are the out of towners who try to get off the interstate at the last minute, or get out of an exit lane last minute. Those have been the closest calls for me - once I was exiting 75 N onto 20 and an RV that was parked in the median between the two roads suddenly started moving and just pulled right in front of me. No warning, no lights, no gradual speed up before merging in. Just suddenly an out of state RV cuts right in front of you from a dead stop. I honked at that guy for five minutes without stopping. The whole way over the overpass and all the way through the merge onto I-20 until he surrendered and took the next exit out of shame. I had to slam on my brakes so hard and pray the guy behind me would as well, and it's a miracle I'm still alive. I'd still be honking at that RV today if it was still around.
On the other hand I try to always give way for people who need to merge and indicate it with their blinkers and I try to be extra generous about this with 18 wheelers so they don't end up in a bad spot. It's only when another driver is clearly trying to kill me with their car that my rage comes out.
As a Kentuckian can confirm that I’ve witnessed multiple people attempt to turn roundabouts into straightabouts 😂
As a Kentucky resident I can confirm you nailed that roundabout part, we got two and no one has a clue how they work 😂
My husband had to go to Louisville for work, and he said the amount of cars missing bumpers, fenders, and headlights was astounding.
Is that a Louisville thing, or statewide? He ended up the designated driver by default, no-one else was brave/dumb enough. It's bern 8 years, and he still has flashbacks about "the Loop."
@@jlgavitt since 4/5 of Kentucky’s population is spread between the two cities,( Louisville and Lexington). I’d say that’s pretty accurate, there’s no one to run into out in the sticks.
Just drove on my first round about a few months ago. I went in circles for 5 minutes trying to get the hell out. I also do the same thing with hotel doors.😂
Ever seen a diamond diverge? 😅
Here in the part of California where I live, they put a couple big roundabouts on the outskirts of a small city out towards where it turns rural and nobody was on the roads after midnight back then so when we were bored (teens and early 20’s), we’d just see how fast we could drive around the circle… or use it to scare the shit out of unsuspecting friends and/or our dates
Several years ago I lived in Florida while going to graduate school. When I went to get my Florida driver's license, I saw the elderly man in front of me taking his eye test--he kept failing and the woman behind the desk just kept telling him to try again:" Uhhh, E, D, no C, F...??" "No sir, please try again." Utterly terrifying that they would let that man on the road.
I just moved to Florida again after briefly living here for some volunteer work 10 years ago. My sister just came to visit and she tried to tell me at first that driving couldn’t be much different than where she lived on the west coast. I let her go on I-4. She changed her mind after that.
My grandfather had a stroke a while back. Went mostly blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. Still passed the eye exam in Indiana. Luckily, he had the good sense NOT to drive anyway.
Two of my children went to grad school at UF. Absolute truth.
As a local floridian I have my own fair share of stories that make me wonder how people got license as well. Hell the other day I was driving on my way to work and there was garbage truck on the road that was going along not particularly fast. Keep in mind that this road was only two lanes, one going one way, the other going the other.
Suddenly the truck starts slowing down, turns its hazards on and starts honking. I figure that he is slowing down to turn down this one fairly small road coming up. The guy in front of me and one guy behind me go to pass, and I figure that at that point I was just going to wait till this guy was about to turn down the small road. And when he didn't turn down the road and instead passed it I decided that I was going to pass him. That is when he turns left. So I think that this dude is about to back into this road and back up to give him room. I had backed up about two car lengths from the road to let this guy back into the road. And instead of backing up he just sits there and keeps honking his horn. I back up again for only about half a car length and this dude finally decides to back into the road. But not entirely before he stops and blocks the road and decides to curse me out.
He eventually does back the rest of the way into the road. But I more or less want to know what he thought I was supposed to do. He didn't directly turn down the road, he didn't use a turn signal, I gave him the room to back up. The fuck did this dude think I was supposed to do.
@@lacehenn I-4 for a newbie? That's just mean homie
Livin’ in ATL, that part was absolutely comedy gold! The more I drive around here the more even a patient person like myself gets fed up with the shenanigans 🗿
I lived in Florida and now in Southern Alabama and this is spot on!
“Get in the left lane and go as slow as possible.” So true, y’all!
Only part you missed was that TN drivers do often have their turn signals ON. They are, however, NOT turning when the blinker is on.
Oh you mean the in-car metronome?
probably meth
I have seen it a few times here but yeah TN is actually accurate. I swear every time I get behind someone they just slam on their breaks and turn causing me to have to yell out the window at them that they don't know what a turn signal is. Of course I know to stay back a few car lengths but sometimes they'll break so fast right as they get to the turn that it pisses me off. As for me if someone is behind me I always use mine but no one around why bother.
As a Georgia resident he is far from wrong we don't go to Atlanta (Terminus) unless we have to. Also if you grew up in like rural like country Georgia you grew up driving four wheelers dirt bikes and trucks. I personally drove for the first time at the age of 4 and it was a dodge 1st gen dually gotta love granpa wanting to see you to drive while he can watch you drive. Also just gotta say it Go dawgs!
Solid effort in coordinating state labels, shirts, and ties with college team colors!
Took my test in Mississippi and we did not leave parking lot. Instructor got in and there were a lot of love bugs and we talked about that. And then she asked if I had experience and I told her I drove there by myself and she said good, let’s go inside.
Oh wow!! That would have been a fail on my driving test!!
In Mississippi, I drove around the building because it was the end of the day & the guy was tired.
🤣🤣🤣
@@liasherwood1230 Florida Panhandle driver test here - back in the early 70's. My instructor/tester had me go to I-10 and drive about 20 miles to the next exit and take Hwy 90 back to the station. I had taken Driver's Ed in school, and had gotten my Restricted License when I was 15,and we had been driving those same routes for the whole 4 weeks. I took my test in a Ford Falcon Station Wagon. My daughter took hers in my Ford F250 truck with the camper shell on the back.
In Mississippi I drove down the rural road about half a mile, turned into a church parking lot, turned around, and then drove right back to the DMV! Lol
As someone raised in North Carolina , the NC and SC parts earned my subscribe! You missed the part of leaving your car abandoned on the side of the interstate though for NC. For some reason the Charlotte area has more empty cars on the side of the highway then anywhere else I have ever been.
Some cars have been on the side of i85 so long I use them as landmarks.
lol I noticed that shit after moving out here. Indiana no abandoned cars on the way in I was like where the hell am I moving too.
Facts!!
As an NC native and SC transplant for over a decade, those two had me cackling. I remember when I used to think I-40 was bad road. Oh *my god* nothing prepared me for the level of negligence in SC.
Agree. I don't understand it. I've lived in four other states, and never ever saw as many abandoned cars as the first month I lived in North Carolina. I don't understand. I've now far exceeded my lifetime expectation of abandoned cars. Also a heck of a lot of vanity plates.
the Kentucky and Florida ones cracked me up the most, but they are all hilarious 😂👌
The one for Arkansas is so freaking true lmao. The amount of times someone just sits and stops at a yield sign when they can go is astounding.
As a South Carolinian that lives less than 10 miles from the North Carolina state line, I can testify that you are 100% correct about North and South Carolina.
North Carolina move on over to the right lane when you are in South Carolina. We are use to the potholes so we set money aside for annual alignments.
My tires have a funny shape to them. I call them SC memory tires.
I’m from Belmont and it’s crazy going into sc the road just turns into potholes lol
Wow easy... it's always the SC drivers in NC that hog up the left lane, driving like a damn granny. Well actually, that is every damn state that is not NC... well that's how it is in the mountains.
@@brandonc6838 Ok,OK, I think I figured it out now. It's the tourist! They driving slow there looking at the beautiful mountains and driving slow here looking at the gaint crab statues in front of every seafood restaurant within 20 minutes of the beach.
Yeah just move into Fort Mill myself. Was the car shop yesterday and alignment had to be fixed.
Got my first license in Kentucky. I failed the first test because I "didn't drive backwards". We were on a steep hill...pretty much the whole state is made of hills. And the guy told me to go in reverse down the hill. So I did...I coasted down with my foot tapping the brake as any normal, sane person would do when going backwards down a hill.
And he gigged me because I didn't accelerate down the hill using gasoline instead of the friggin force of gravity that was pulling me down faster than I really needed to go.
Oh Kentucky...
That's odd. What did they expect, the Dukes of Hazzard high speed reverse in am 18 wheeler weaving through parked cars?
You has a crazy drivers test guy
Also licensed in KY. Failed my first time because the cop made me do a turnabout on a one lane, gravel road. Said I "crossed over the line". :/
Kentucky sounds more strict than Tennessee lol. I did mine in 09 or 2010 and I panicked when a light turned yellow and then red as i was going through. I just stopped right under the lights and she told me to keep going lol. She ask if I would of did that with her and I said no and she passed me 😂.
😂😂
Texan here, This is right on the nose. Had to drag the grain cart as soon as I could maintain a conversation. Mom signed off on my home-taught driving school and I asked after my drivers test if I could do it again but in reverse.😂
Love your stuff👍🏽
The damn flashers in the rain! I can’t even with that!
As someone growing up in Virginia, you do not leave a car running ANYWHERE. Like there’s a reason there are so many used car dealerships that do under the table deals
Exactly. Even in SWVA it's not safe although people still do it for some weird reason. There was literally a news story this past weekend about a guy who stole 3 cars in one day. They managed to arrest him the next morning.
Yeah and, more importantly, several massive ports nearby. A lot of those stolen cars are going overseas. I’ve seen where people had trackers on their cars and within a few days after it was stolen, it was being driven around in the Middle East somewhere.
You forgot West Virginia!
Instructor: “Ok, we’re approaching a blind turn that has one lane caved in and no guardrail to keep you from plunging off the mountain.”
Driver: “It’s a good thing the Free Bird guitar solo just started.”
*Puts petal to the metal*
Nah, they fought for the Union remember?? Jk 😊You’re dead on about the roads though 😅
@@bonedragon7665
Only the northern counties voted to leave Virginia. Where I’m from (the Charleston area) we voted to side with the South.
Look up the Battle of Charleston for more details.
you might fail the test if you don’t stop at the trailer where the front door opens into the road. They had to move because the flood took out the driveway to the regular house. But it works better for the school bus pick up. Just drive around the dog, he’s usually chained up.
As a West Virginian I can confirm that the mountain roads are not fun
From Indiana. I’ve seen each and every one of these drivers on our road. You absolutely nailed em all man!
🎉 greetings from coastal Mississippi. As a Cajun, taking the back roads are the best way to travel 😂
Georgia driver here, and I so relate. If you can avoid Atlanta, do so at all costs. You'll just be circling 285 forever until you run out of gas and the natives come for you.
.......and circling 285 @ mach 2 mph, or is it 85, eerrr 75 from 0530-1030 and again 1430-2030.
Not from Georgia, but got a close friend in Bremen- gotta take 20 through Atlanta to see her. I've found "left lane it but NOT HOV" and "you better keep up with everybody else" is the best way to drive through there.. and NOT BEFORE 10AM and not AFTER 3PM
Pasquall I-285 Perez!
The Georgia part was dead on. Even near Atlanta the highways are a horror show.
I lived in ATL metro for 25 years.
Yes, it's REAL bad during the Rush Hours. And I mean Rush HOURS - from 5:30AM till 11:00PM, then the lunch rush sucks from 12:00 to about 2:00PM, then the trip home was bad from 3:00PM till around about 8:30PM. Unless there's a crash, then add a couple hours to ALL of those ... or if it rains. Or god-forbid snows. Or someone spits on the sidewalk at the wrong time and makes someone THINK it might rain ...
Actually, just go around. It's better that way. OR drive only at night - but ONLY either REALLY fast in any lane you can reach without flipping the car or really damn slow in the left lane.
The North ain't much better. Driving tip for Pennsylvania: Take the posted speed limit, add 15, and that's the actual speed limit. And yes, that does apply when going down a steep mountain grade with a hairpin turn at the bottom; those cars in the trees were just folks God didn't love enough.
If your from PA where the rules don't apply to you
If your from NJ and driving into PA subtract 15 from the speed limit as the cops will look for any excuse to pull you over
Don't forget when in Western PA if you move someone's lawn chair that they had reserving their parking spot in front of their home and then park there yourself they are allowed to legally beat your ass.
In Michigan the people you need to watch out for are Michiganders and people from that state that starts and ends with an o, especially at a yield sign as most seem to think that means the same as a green light. Michiganders will also go around you if they think you're going to slow in the middle of a busy city street nearly getting into a head on collision even in front of police stations. Be careful visiting here please.
@@jokerz7936 it’s called dibs in Chicago & it’s real all winter
Lol true I grew up in PA and have constant anxiety that I'm going too slow for the people behind me if I'm not doing at least 10 over
😂😂 You have made my day with KY round about and traffic circle. My dad passed away w years ago but in Lexington he would go anywhere to get away from the round about to the New Circle road.. I loved it! But he loved one in Danville I hated!!😂😂
as a kentuckian i am ashamed to admit how many times their were tire marks over the roundabout in my neighborhood when they put it in. after a year of people continuing to plow through the flowers they put in the middle, they replaced it with a sign
As a southern who has worked in every southern state and been to every US state, I can see the humor. The Tennessee blinker cracked me up.
Also applies to all BMW drivers no matter the state.
I’ve driven through Tennessee many times. The only time you see blinkers is on out of state plates.
As a Virginian, you impressed me by the fact you included Virginia in a list of Southern things. You have my subscribe.
I mean, most Americans consider the South the states that seceded. Virginia seceded (though it was a close run thing) so it counts.
Don’t worry, us northern/southern border states are the best lol, Tennessee, where I’m from, North Carolina and of course Virginia!
As a Virginian, we are not southern. If anything West Virginia deserves our southern card.
@@lukek5303 speak for yourself!😂
@@virginiagirl6628 you haven't been to the actual south if you think you're living in the south.
The Texan adding the "Thank ya kindly" is what sold it
I was really wondering what you were gunna say for Kentucky, and man you hit the nail on the head 😂 My little town just put our one and only roundabout in and I swear people get air going over the middle lol. Hilarious, good work sir 😂😂😂
I can't speak for all the other states, but Tennessee was _frighteningly_ accurate! I don't know how Matt knew. Must be witchcraft.
A friend once said, the indicators merely indicate you are from out of town.
He is a wizard. I think turn signals are optional on LA vehicles....just saying. 🤔
I’m from out of state living in Tennessee and that’s the one thing I gripe about
@@bieuxyongson agreed! LA feels your pain TN.
I've spent a lot of time driving between GA and VA and folks in TN have only two speeds - Yokel slow and Insane. I have a knack for hitting Chattanooga during blinding thunderstorms and seeing the "locals" still going 80 on I75.
In my Louisiana driving test, the instructor literally had me drive down the road half a mile, make a U-turn, and drive back to the DMV.
That wasn’t in Lafayette at the old DMV on the Evangeline Thruway was it??
I made four right turns (literally drove around the block). The dacquari thing is real too. Drive thru liquor stores.
My tester just walked me and my friend out the door and asked a couple of questions and handed my license. His lunch break.
You went that far? Mine only made me leave the parking lot and make a quick U turn.
From South of Baton Rouge. When I got my license, I literally drove there to the DMV, went in and took my test, walked outside and pointed to my car, then they gave me my license. I’ve been driving since I was 10 and inherited my grandfather’s car when I was 14. Drove my grandma everywhere because she didn’t drive. License? I didn’t need no stinking license! That was a long time ago. 😂😂😂
Driving in Atlanta is either a NASCAR race, defensive driving practice, or a huge parking lot. Add in roadwork and ultimate patience test.
Matt, you are a gem! Thanks so much for making me homesick! As a pastor, I was moved to north of the Mason Dixon line and although these folks treat me real well, I still miss the restaurants where you automatically get grits with breakfast lunch and dinner!
North Carolinian here. My instructor was feeling lazy, so he just had me drive to a neighborhood two blocks from the DMV, turn around, and come right back. But looking at the traffic on I-40 every day around 5:30, and I can tell _plenty_ of people passed the proper exam (or are from Florida. It's 50/50).
that Was the proper exam in TN back in the 90s.. lol.
@@TheJoyBinkley When I got my car license back in 2003, Georgia didn't require getting on public roads at all. I passed the maneuvering test in the DMV parking lot and got my license.
@@adriengriffon wow
Hello neighbor, craven Co here, thats the same drivers test I had but up until this moment I thought that was the norm... I'm 39 and have put 2 children through drivers ed and have also been their the reluctant passenger!
My instructor just had me do a 3 point turn in the parking lot and passed me
As a Texan, I can confirm our depiction as true. My first time behind the wheel was when I was 5, my aunt had picked me up from church on Wednesday night. Last mile to my grandparents', I sat in her lap and got to steer. I was driving atv's until I turned 11, then started driving my mom's car. Bought my mom's car at 14 for $500. Now I'm 18.
I started riding when I was about 1, riding by myself at about 3, I started doing my own maintenance at about 6, I'm 19 and still ride regularly.
@tateranus4365 and im a licensed brain surgeon and get payed 32 an hr 😂
I live in Arkansas and the "what's a yield sign?" is accurate for so many people 🤣
"lets just stop and stare at it. Good idea." Im dead. 😂😂😂
The only issues with Florida here is that the truck a) had a muffler, and b) did not let out a huge plume of smoke when started.
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“Match his speed”- that is my ultimate pet peeve. It’s like they are leading a damn parade as the traffic backs up behind them. Totally NC driver.
Oh noooo.. I do this. You're supposed to and thenslowly overtake. They taught us in drivers ed... *hides in NC driving shame forever*
Lived in that damn state for 14 years and got my first license there. Can agree. Hell, I would rather drive through Houston at peak rush hour than deal with NC “traffic”.
I remember taking the driver's test, getting on I-26 and going the speed limit in the right lane. I was clogging up the right lane and people were passing me left and right. I asked my instructor if I could go faster and she said," no then you'll be breaking the speed limit and I'll have to fail you." Jokes on her I've been going 10 over on interstates every time after that
Moved from Texas to Tennessee....and I was shooketh. I mean! These people! Bless their hearts they can NOT DRIVE! And that ain't no lie about Texas. Shoot I was backin' my grandma's car up at five. Driving it over cans at six and actually takin' her to Church by ten years old. Hell.
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If you see brake lights just expect a turn from the car breaking, golly bum man is it really that hard jeez. (sarcasm from a Tennesseean)
@@Mr_SeaWolf I don't like sarcasm....
@@NicholeSnickers23 Are you beeing sarcastic?
I'm from North Florida but my mother's family was from Alabama. I first got to steer sitting on Granny's lap at about 4. Then I was allowed to actually drive with an adult in the passenger seat on our unpaved country road at 9. Back when I took the test for my license you did actually have to do more than turn on the car but the only part I couldn't do was parallel park so I passed the first try. Mama tried to teach me to parallel park using two 5 gallon buckets in a field but it was pretty much the blind leading the blind.
The North Carolina one made me just start laughing maniacally
I'm from NC and it gave me road rage just watching it
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@@DookyShoes1 you have obviously been on 29 for too long lol, take the exit onto Wendover so you'll want to commit suicide instead.
Literally, every day on 485 or 74
Clowns behind you deserve it
For Virginia drivers the one thing you missed was,
Instructor: “ Oh, someone in front of you has their blinker on cause they are turning. So now you gotta put your blinker on to let the people behind you know that the person in front of you is turning.
Driver: “Even though I ain’t turning too?”
Instructor: “Yup, cause that’s the law!”
Driver: “Ok, so I just speed away and turn it off after they’ve turned, right?”
Instructor: “Yup, your a natural!”
Is that a NOVA thing? I have never seen anyone do that.
I’ve noticed a few people do that down here. It’s really confusing
@@shartsmcginty8056 Nope, you see it from below Charlottesville to the North Carolina border. As far as NOVA, that’s the North, we no longer claim them.
@@mongosragnarok this is the first time ive seen a non nova virginian on the internet! hello from the other side of charlottesville!
@@mongosragnarok was gonna say as a northerner, haven't seen that in NOVA.
As someone who has been living in TN for the past 2 years... HE NAILED TN!!
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That's so true!
My old man taught me since I was ten years old.
As a Texan, the driving since he was 4 is accurate for the smaller and smaller number of us from truly small towns, ranches or farms. For the rest of us, it’s more like taking your life in your hands when getting on I-35. If the construction doesn’t get you, the Mad Max Fury Road-wannabes will.
And I-10 through Houston, I-410 around San Antonio. . .
And 83/281 in the Rio Grande Valley, especially around 11:30 at night in Weslaco and Harlingen. 😀😃🙂🙃😊
I just witnessed a beautiful sight yesterday: one of those Fury Road wannabes pulled over by a cop. His buddy didn't get tagged too (that time) but it was still a sight to behold.
I used to live in TX but I-35 is so scary I moved to Arkansas and forgot how to read yield signs
Texas. If you ain't first, you're last.
As someone who passed their driving test in Florida with 2 hours of sleep and nearly got into a head-on collision during the test, I can confirm that that is how Florida driving tests work
It really depends on the person in Florida but it's super easy I turned with one hand and never used a blinker and teh lady was like you didnt crash so you pass
As someone who regularly passes Florida people in the right lane, this was spot on!
I failed the test twice. Once bc i missed the stop sign in the *parking lot*, and the second time bc i drove on the wrong side of the road
Saw my first u turn on a freeway in Florida. That was special.
The KY bit was great! I live in BG and they are installing those round a bouts everywhere!!
By golly, I believe you have done some serious and lengthy research in each state to be so spot on with this topic.
KY native. NC transplant. I-77 comment for NC is 100% accurate. For KY, I've never seen anyone take a roundabout like that, but a concrete median is ABSOLUTELY considered a two-way turning lane.
I saw it happen in Ohio but they had Kentucky plates. He let his passenger out, and she was drunk as hell. Somehow he was sober, and destroyed his Malibu. I think it was less a Kentucky thing and more a Malibu driver thing.
The Georgia one was PERFECT! I grew up in the Atlanta area and let me tell you, that is the SCARIEST place to learn how to drive. Also you forgot that in Kentucky, they make a road one and a half lanes wide, slap a line down the middle and call it a two lane road. Then everyone flies up and down it in their giant trucks at like 10 miles over the speed limit.
I used to work all over the US, and Atlanta is a top contender for my most hated place to drive. Florida is fine, just get by grandma. I like Texas, the road system is great. Michigan ice and potholes? I'll handle those in a light, rear wheel drive sports car. LA rush hour is slow, but you can usually detour through the hills and have nice scenery. I'll even take Massholes over Atlanta.
As a native Kentuckian, this is absolutely correct.
Lol, I'm from GA and my dad's from Kentucky so Ik what you're talking about 💀💀💀💀
Once you learn how to drive in Atlanta, you can drive any damn where though. All then one way roads and potholes and constantly changing speed zones 😂
@@gnollman The first time my mom and I drove in KY, we were driving in the dark and of course there were no street light, so my mom's driving around yelling "Where is the road?!!" I thought it was hillarious until I tried to drive at night and almost went off the road.
I have watched this more times than is natural! I think it’s my favorite!! :)
The Kentucky traffic circle logic had me rolling 🤣🤣🤣
As someone who lives on the border between the Carolinas, NC is spot on. SC seems like everyone is practicing to move to Florida.
*face palm*....please God save me from the Commie-Forunist.
In DeSantis we trust. Amen. 🇺🇸
As someone who has lived in SC his entire life, trust me, NO ONE is practicing to move to Florida. It's already hot enough here.
I'm a South Carolinian and will not under any circumstances even visit Florida (even to see my own family). We do have a lot of potholes here though.
Depending where in SC you can ask most of those people if they are from SC and unfortunately most of them aren’t they are either from Ohio (they sure like SC for some reason) other northern states or midweste (I prefer them over any other people). It’s sad but true. And yes the potholes is still an issue, at this point it’s a tradition.
You must be from Rock Hill.
As a Kentucky boy that has driven ALL OVER the South, I have 0 criticisms. Nice job, Matt.
Thanks, Matt! Merry Christmas! .😊
I learned on a rainy day, on the 210 Pasadena Fwy between San Dimas and Glendale both ways...white knuckle learning that was!
Only those that have ever driven on a Freeway in the Los Angeles area during a rain storm will know what I mean,
The Texas one is pretty accurate. I have known a few people that knew how to drive way before the legal age.
My Florida self knew how to drive way before "legal driving is".
First time I ever drove was my Grandaddy’s pasture in East Texas when I was fourteen
Yup, parents taught me to drive way early on dirty roads.
I grew up in Virginia but my uncle taught me and my cousins to drive when we were about six.
That's just a farm kid, I learned to drive when my feet could reach the pedals. And we didn't have those wimpy automatics, I had to bang gears with a Datsun diesel 1-ton
While NC was accurate, you did miss our whole “go make a 3 point turn, and you’re done” thing about our test 😂
Lol that's so true! In high school our coaches were also drivers ed instructors. We did one 3 point turn and spent the remaining 2 weeks going through the McDonald's drive through!
is that really an nc-specific thing? lol
@@theannoyingdahg It was when I got my license in the 90s, pass the written test. demonstrate your blinkers, do a three point turn, and drive around the block, here's your license.
@@TheBaldr
they made me log i think 8 hours with an hour and a half per day and we practiced a 3 point turn for that last half every day XD guess what though i know how to make a three point turn so i guess it worked
Oh man I've seen way too many people that can't make a 12 pt turn let alone a 3 here in NC.
as a Floridian my grandma from West Virginia taught me how to parallel park thank goodness, but for my driving test a big part was proving I could pull into and out of a regular parking spot… and for some reason explain how to park on a hill… in Florida…
They were preparing you, in case you decide to ever visit Spook Hill. Though considering the bizarre physics of that place, it'd probably defy anything that was taught in that test anyways.
The Florida driver's exam was spot on.
For Tennessee you should've included how the cops don't care if your going 80 in 45 and how at green lights people just sit for 30sec before moving which can drive you up the wall.
This is very true
As someone who's lived in TN for all of my 20 brief years in life this is true AND WHY DOES NO ONE SEE MY BRIGHT ASS RED TRUCK also hate BMW drivers
I took driving school in Jacksonville. The conductor had us drive to Maysville as one student and back to Jacksonville with the other student and that's how we passed
Very true
He forgot to have him turn right in front of someone and then go 10 mph under the speed limit the whole time they are stuck behind him.
The Alabama rain thing is so unbelievably true
As a Pennsylvanian, I will say you definitely nailed it with Florida!
I’m an Arkansan and you nailed it!! Wife and I do not understand why they stop at a yield sign when there is no traffic. Dumb.
Texas here. You nailed Texas on the head!
The Alabama one was fairly accurate, only you'd think ppl would slow down in the rain with their "flashers" on, but if anything they speed up. Like the hazard lights make it ok or something. But yeah I took my driver's test in this little shack in a small ass town with no dmv, drove a few blocks, did a 3 point turn and drove back and got my license.
When Florida went slightly cross eyed to put the key in I busted out laughing. Accurate
This was your most accurate video ever! Even your Texas example could not be improved on.
At age 16 I was ready to take my driver's test. Not that I wasn't driving before - before front wheel drive became the norm - through snow and ice storms (and whiteouts) in Alaska. Learn how to parallel park between snowbanks. No big deal. But at the time of the test the instructor had me drive down an alleyway but wouldn't you know it, the Iditarod was on (dog sledding race from Anchorage to Nome) and sure enough, here comes a sled dog team barreling down the alley right at us. Not to mention my car wouldn't go in reverse but it would stop especially because I had studded tires on. But I still passed because I could parallel park - without reverse - in between snowbanks. Truly an art form. Such is life in the last Frontier.
Virginia here and, yeah. Every week some idiot is on the news complaining that his car was stolen from 7-11, and it's always because he left it running when he went inside.
When I got my license, the instructor used his students as personal drivers. I drove him to the grocery store, the post office, and Hardee's.
I have never heard this. I was confuaed when he got to our state.
@@Indigolily80 Haven't lived in Virginia for about 15 years now, but when I was a kid the big trend was people getting their cars stolen in winter while the engine was warming up.
I had to drive mine to food Lion and a pharmacy in colonial heights
MAAAAAN YOURE HILARIOUS!! Alabama was spot on & I cant remember if Tennessee didn't use signals or not because I had to numb myself to so much idiotic stuff!
Finished the video and MAN that Florida is on point. Whenever I'm on the road and I just want someone in front of me to drive just a bit faster its always a Florida license plate!
The Tennessee depiction is 100% accurate. One of the few things other than driving around the block that you do for your test is showing that you know how to use your turn signal. I believe that's the last time most people use it as well.