Driving Lessons

[trondaron]

the issue i had was occarional birds jumping into my sight for me to brake. my instructor -luckily i got a real nice guy- always loled so hard at me saying, "no worries, they will fly away faster than you can stop."
(my excuse; i have seen enough too many cats dead on roads. i never let my cats out because of this.)

Consider this; braking and acting 'erratically' as a result of seeing a bird/cat/animal in the road can cause other drivers to act poorly and crash into you. Just suck it up and as long as the animal is small let it fend for itself and you fend for yourself and the safety of the people in your car. Swerving around animals at high speeds is a good way to hit another car or send your own out of control.

[Projeear]

Every time I try and make conversation whilst driving, I for some inexplicable reason, begin to turn the wheel towards the curb - this happened once at 45 mph.

I havn't spoken whilst driving, since.

Lesson was cancelled today because she couldn't make it. However, I get a double lesson tomorrow, same price as one! (2 hours, rather than 1. One hour always flies by!)

[Jackard]

Consider this; braking and acting 'erratically' as a result of seeing a bird/cat/animal in the road can cause other drivers to act poorly and crash into you. Just suck it up and as long as the animal is small let it fend for itself and you fend for yourself and the safety of the people in your car. Swerving around animals at high speeds is a good way to hit another car or send your own out of control.

Yea, you can be cautious, but dont worry so much about animals that you do something erratic unless they are large like a deer or whatever. Those can seriously fuck up a vehicle. (Do they have to worry about deer crossings in Japan...?)

[rye130]

Got my license a couple of months back. It was super easy, my instructor (who I also took the test with) was relaxed and always complemented my driving skills. Drivers in my area suck at driving, especially at merging onto highways. Seeing brakelights infront of you as your trying to merge is never good...

[rye130]

the issue i had was occarional birds jumping into my sight for me to brake. my instructor -luckily i got a real nice guy- always loled so hard at me saying, "no worries, they will fly away faster than you can stop."
(my excuse; i have seen enough too many cats dead on roads. i never let my cats out because of this.)

Consider this; braking and acting 'erratically' as a result of seeing a bird/cat/animal in the road can cause other drivers to act poorly and crash into you. Just suck it up and as long as the animal is small let it fend for itself and you fend for yourself and the safety of the people in your car. Swerving around animals at high speeds is a good way to hit another car or send your own out of control.

I swerved to avoid a bird that got stuck under the car in front of my one time. Luckily no one was in the other lane.

[Tonkyhonk]

Yea, you can be cautious, but dont worry so much about animals that you do something erratic unless they are large like a deer or whatever. Those can seriously fuck up a vehicle. (Do they have to worry about deer crossings in Japan...?)

yep, my prefecture only got boars, but there are bears up north, loads of deer in Nara and around

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[Jackard]

lol boar crossing

do they hide behind trees to ambush unsuspecting newbies?

[Tonkyhonk]

do they hide behind trees to ambush unsuspecting newbies?

wish i could say theyd do, that would make an interesting story to tell xD

nah, they usually hide in bamboo forests in mountains, vandalize local farms nearby.
occasionally a group of hunters with rifles go killing them. you can buy boar meat from them around the area.
my father often went killing boars in a team when he was alive. its pretty dangerous that he never took me with him.
(boars usually hide, and run away when they smell or hear people, but they do come attacking when aggro'ed.)

btw their babies are so cute...its heart-breaking that we have to kill them too.

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[Jiskra]

do they hide behind trees to ambush unsuspecting newbies?

wish i could say theyd do, that would make an interesting story to tell xD

nah, they usually hide in bamboo forests in mountains, vandalize local farms nearby.
occasionally a group of hunters with rifles go killing them. you can buy boar meat from them around the area.
my father often went killing boars in a team when he was alive. its pretty dangerous that he never took me with him.
(boars usually hide, and run away when they smell or hear people, but they do come attacking when aggro'ed.)

btw their babies are so cute...its heart-breaking that we have to kill them too.

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awww, look at that little fuzzball! I want one! Until it gets big, then we'll eat it.

[Potjeh]

Driving is tons of fun when there aren't many other vehicles on the road, and the most rage inducing activity ever when there are. Unfortunately, the latter is a lot more common. I'm normally a rather calm person, but after a two hour drive, most of which is behind asshole truckers who drive 25km/h and refuse to pull over and let the 50 cars behind them pass (can't pass them normally because my country is all mountain so there isn't much straight road), I'm ready to rip out throats with my bare teeth. Luckily we don't have proper jams where you wait in one place for hours, else I'd be doing 15-30 for homicide.