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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2018
- Many of the videos on TH-cam say the same points and don't talk about the driving itself. Here are my tips on driving in Australia (on the left side of the road) from my experience.
The driving footage is not mine, just something to watch while I talk - บันเทิง
You are absolutly right , but dont forget if you cross the street as a pedestrian look first to your right side then left and right again. Very Important especially for Kids.
Just Went to Australia from CA, these tips were very useful, especially keeping right side as your reference, my lane drift indicator kept beeping.
Few things I had to mention - Speed limits, there are cameras everywhere and Road signs/friends there kept warning me to be under the limit.
Rear View Mirror - Not sure why, but I always thought the angle was wrong :)
Parking - Some of the parking spaces, I had to do reverse parking, by rule. So look for signs. Also, I found it odd while parallel parking in the other side of the road.
Rentals - Rented a car at the Airport from AVIS, was a breeze both taking it out and returning, no hassle. Drove with US license, took International license too, but they just checked by CA license at the counter.
Some of the roads are way to narrow.
Having said all, it is great to drive in Australia, people were very friendly - other drivers, at the gas stations etc.
Thank you for this. We went to Australia from NJ in 2018. My husband drove the car for a few days during our trip and luckily it was an area that didn’t have many roads or cars. But it was nerve wracking to us. I kept laughing when he kept flipping on wipers and I kept reminding- stay left, stay left when we were turning (though he probably didn’t need it). At one point we were pulling out of a restaurant and turning right and I suddenly panicked and screamed because I thought it was wrong (but he was correct!) 😂. Then there was another time he headed right out of a busy lot and nearly drove into traffic the wrong way. We both had a panic! 😂. We made it fine alive but it was exciting to say the least. 😂
Thank you for this! I'm in Brisbane as well and I'm from Virginia in the US. It can be stressful when you have traffic behind you, it's raining and you're new to this.
Thank you for your video posting, it helps tremendously to visualize a left turn or right turn in a real time scenario. I plan to drive an RV from Brisbane to Cairns next month, I need lot of help.
Absolutely nailed it... Every single thing that you mentioned is exactly what it is...
All good driving tips for driving on opposite side of the road to what you are used to. I’ve driven in European countries for a few days and weeks on end on a Germany driving holiday. Truely the hardest time is the first 5-10 minutes when I mentally kept saying “It’s Wrong, It’s Wrong It’s Wrong” Plus it can be just as dangerous when you return to the other side for short period, not really when you return home as you slot straight back into your normal mode. It’s just after weeks of driving in Europe travelled to Ireland were I was driving on what is my normal side. Drove out on to a quite county road with something not feeling quite right and had to promptly thrown the car to the left side from the right side of the road, even though it was a local right hand drive car, I had just gotten used to driving on the opposite side and had NOT readjusted probably as I was in unfamiliar surrounds. NSW in Oz
Thank you so much, this is quiet interesting and it's better than tutoring video which doesn't share much thoughts about all the odds and wired stuff when compared to driving in the US. ❤
Thanks for the video, seeing the visual while you were speaking helps associate these tips a lot
Thank you for your video. Talking while driving allowed me to see how to drive. Very helpful.
Thank you for the video. We will be heading to WA in May, driving from Broome to Perth and this helps a lot because I'm very nervous!
I'm glad it could help! Before I left I was pretty anxious, but it gets better after being behind the wheel for a bit!
Thank you! I'll be doing a loop from Sydney to Adelaide through Melbourne and back to Sydney! Definitely nervous about driving on the other side but this video helped!
Someone needs to do a similar video on how to drive on the right side of the road in US.
Aussie here who has driven in the US several times. I find that if you think to keep you as the driver on the center line it helps with the lane drift problem. Like think in Australia my left foot has to be near the middle or center line of the road.
Defiantly look both ways when crossing a street, I got clipped by a car in the US but not injured luckily.
I have also driven European trucks like Volvo here in OZ where the wiper and blinker levers are backwards but get to know the vehicle so it's not a problem.
Good job mate! very nicely done.
When I went to the US, I didn't have much trouble. Due to the traffic helps you. However in that, I did three time drove on the wrong side yet there was no traffic at the time and two were dead end streets.
Very useful! Years ago I drove in Surfers Paradise and was so stressed I took public transport most of the time.
at 2:28 you made an illegal turn (you must be in the left land prior to making the turn you can't cut across the lane to turn)
Great video. I am going to Australia in September and renting a camper van. Aaaaaargghhh!
I am British and we drive on the same side as Aus so thats not unnatural for when i go in September, but always helps to see how theirs junctions work
Perfect video thanks!!
a little tip for knowing where about the left wheels are; if you line up the edge of the drivers sider wiper blade with the edge of the road that is where the left wheels will be. oh and btw at 2:25 you went from the right lane to make a left turn, very VERY Naughty!, oh and at 7:20 a fat solid line at an intersection means STOP!
you said your first time driving on the right side of the road,opps
Thanks for the catch!
Pretty interesting stuff, I bet this would help out people that would be anxious.
Also, good job pronouncing the names of cities here correctly, most Americans get it wrong.
To save having to adjust to the wiper and indicator stalks being on opposite sides, spend a little more and hire a European or American car (eg VW, Volvo, Audi, BMW, MINI, Saab, Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, etc), they are the same as American cars, just on the right hand side of the vehicle.
Awe Struck yes but American and European cars are junk and will break down a lot.
Australia does not have American cars apart from a very few wallowing ancient gin palaces driven by people with no taste. The turn signals on my 1983 Mercedes were where all other cars in Australia have them, on the right, but in a Mercedes van I drove they were on the left.
Would love to do this next year. Got my license in the UK so I learned using this system but never owners or driven here since 2013. my real proper driving after that has always been in rentals in places where they drive like in the US. So basically now I’d be as confused as you in Australia and would automatically go the wrong way despite the fact that i still live in the UK and see this every day. Not sure how I’ll handle it
I live in Australia and I would like to drive with left hand drive so I can shift gears with my right (Dominant) hand
I think I feel used to seeing driving like this already.
I guess I'm just preparing myself which is why I feel used to seeing it this way.
😂 It does happen when each year go to Atlanta to see my dad I seat on his drivers seat instead of other side.
Thank you!
7:20 stop sign mean stop not give way is will cost u lots of money
Thank you for noticing! I used stock driving footage and I should have checked it more carefully. 100% agree with you, full stops are important!
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I've been abroad & driven on left side with left side drive vehicles. I can't stand it. Driving a standard feels very weird. Whatever.
Anyone know why australia chose left side road travel & left side drive vehicles?
Thanks for the tips. A question: it appears that you hang to the right lane, as opposed to the leftmost lane. Is there a reason for that? Where I live, that would be seen as rude, as that would stop faster drivers from passing you. Is it just the Aussie way to drive?
(And I say this flipping "leftmost" for "rightmost" and "right" for "left." Hope it makes sense.)
Left most lanes are where the exits will be, so if going straight through, keep to the right lane unless exiting or turning left.
Thanks and wish me luck
If you think roundabout are great, which also do! Try the “lock-in” roundabouts in the Netherlands you have to decide where you want to come out before you enter, as you are locked into the exit point. Or their double roundabouts where cyclists 🚵♂️ are on the outside circle, car inside and you have to give way to cyclists ALWAYS! After all it’s the Netherlands and bikes are king always. i.e. Hit anyone on a bike and you in the wrong automatically.
My wife almost freaked out while driving on a larger Traffic island in the UK, as she never been on a roundabout with traffic lights on it. But later redeem herself by throwing the car to the opposite side of a country road at speed when a large dear cleared a 6’ft high stone dry wall and almost landed in the front of the car, that’s what comes from growing up in the Royal National Park, you learn to avoid dear.
NSW in Oz
Looking to do this as well! What company did you use to rent the car and what was the average cost? Thanks! 🙏
Great tips
Thank you!
@@jkosaka3why haven’t you made a video for five years
0:38 let me give you some advice to keep a ticket and fine away . Don't stay in the passing lane
thats only at speeds at 80kph or above, up till then it's anything goes lol
I felt the same way bro,.. Looks like others are driving on the wrong side of the road 🤣
1:50 so you have never sat in the passenger seat in america?
Wow you did better than me and Learned faster I’ve been on my learners license for about 3 years and I think in America it’s called learners permit I think
Dam Daddy, you really know how to give good tips on driving. I would like a persoanl request of your tip for me to ride on. :)
5:17 nice bentley continental
I'm laughing and cringing and anxious now...😂😅💗
I just got my Ls. Any tips?
This isn’t difficult for me as i live in the UK so driving on the left is normal.
The number 1 tip/rule is stay out of the way of us truck drivers we have deadlines to keep and we don't like to be held up especially on country roads
7:30 you need to behind the stop line (unbroken) completely for at least 3seconds. You didn't. You actually violated a few driving laws in this video
Again, this is stock driving footage and not my own driving. Always good to point out these infractions though for anyone watching.
i have a question what was it like come back to the states from Australia?
It was everything in reverse again for the first drive! But since I had driven US-style for longer, it came back within the first day I was home
A highway is a motorway down here!
Incorrect. Motorways are multi-lane roads with grade separated interchanges and sometimes tolls. Highways are any major connecting road and are sometimes only two lanes, may have traffic lights in urban areas etc.
No traffic in this city🤔
I like traffic on the road,no more rubbish in pedestrian,,,,,
Make sure you have life insurance!
Roundabouts sucks, flyovers is the way
Did you have an American number plate or Australian
I rented a car from the airport - so AUS!
@@jkosaka3 oh cos when I went to gold coast Queensland au the plate was new south Wales because my dad has a NSW licence.
Australian. The only US plates in Australia belong to the US military and sometimes families of US military personnel if they're on a posting or exchange; there's an agreement in place that enables them to bring personal vehicles.
Otherwise as Australia is an island there's no easy way for foreign vehicles to come here.
Why can’t all countries be on the same side I just find it annoying
Are you aware that America like many countries in very early days of driving and horse carriage you drove or rode on the left side of the road. Driving on the right side was totally a mistake made by a large car manufacturer put the steering wheel on the wrong side of there car. Because this car was the largest exported car around the world money countries adopted this as the norm. Now you have left hand drive and right hand drive. All due a mistake by one American car company that still exists today. Just. Now less 7000 employees according to this weeks news.
No. When wagons came along, people would travel on the right side of the road so they could see how much clearance they had on the left (they'd sit on the back left horse so they could whip the horses with their right hand). When we started paving our roads in the mid 1800's, we'd have drainage ditches on the sides of the road; since people wouldn't want to run their wagon into the ditch, they'd sit on the back right horse (so at this point we're traveling on the right while sitting on the right). Naturally automobiles copied this when they came out (the first car produced by Ford, the Model A, had its wheel on the right). By the time the Model T came out, it was more important to tell how close you were to oncoming traffic than to how close you were to the side of the road, therefore the wheel was positioned on the left.
The reason why some countries like the UK and Japan drive on the left is because of colonial times, when it was important to joust your weapon with your right hand.
So no, it's not because we made some mistake.
02:00 you never drive shotgun wtf?
You don't 'drive shotgun', you sit shotgun.
What city is this?
Brisbane.
@@suej9329 With the tram lines and the telephone number in shop window it looks more like Melbourne.
In the beginning, Sydney, specifically Northbridge which is (surprise!) a suburb north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. From 06:35 onwards we move to Melbourne and the eastern suburb of Deepdene.
Although our host mentions driving in Brisbane he's used stock footage.
Those Australians drive like the Cubans
As someone from a country that already drives on the left this video wasn’t any help at all
understandable
So why did you watch it? !!!
Just like in the United States it’s only dangerous in Australia when Canadians are on the road.
I think you need more driving skills before you make a video on driving in another country. A. You needed to take your own advice in regards to using the right lane markings as a guide, the start of this video had you vereing off into the left lane....I thought that bus was going to hit you. B. Stop signs mean you come to a full stop, 3 seconds before moving. It may mean something else in the US.
Thanks for your comment! I should have put my note earlier that it is stock/sample driving footage. I should have checked it more carefully! Good eye :)
I can't bear it when people don't know how to write even their own language ! How many mistakes here?
@@peaceprosperity3951 Do you know that studies about people who correct others grammar or spelling say they are ....less intelligent.
Let that sink it, while you pick apart my grammar 😀
@@jellybee68 I beg yourpardon. On the contrary, people can't write or read properly are considered or characterised as dyslexic and mentally retarded and never excel academically. Please stop talking gibberish and face the fact.
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ma'am this is a driving video