Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult?

• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For that exact reason some countries (my country included) don’t accept an American license unless you do a test here first.

  Though IIRC, that applies for both manuals and automatics, because American drivers education isn’t really trusted here.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is totally fair because I literally, and I mean literally, drove around the block for my American driver’s test. My entire test:

    K start the car and turn right out of the parking lot onto the street

    Turn right at the stop

    Turn right at the stop

    Parallel park right there

    Pull back onto the road

    Turn right at the stop

    Turn right at the stop

    Turn right into the DMV parking lot and park anywhere

    Congratulations, you passed!

    This was in a residential area too, so I never went above 25mph/40kph

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    With the Geneva convention on Road Traffic they must recognize it, at least for visitors. However you are probably right if OP tried to move there and get a local license, they’d need to retest.

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