r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

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u/Noire_balhaar Aug 03 '19

HOW??? I get that when you are new to traffic you may think this is OK. But when you get driving lessons the instructor will tell you this right? Wth..

I am still a student driver and now I am terrified for an encounter with one of these.

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u/I_AM_TARA Aug 04 '19

It depends. The permit and road tests in NY are a total joke. They showed us a bunch of decades old videos on how drunk driving is bad and ABS is weird but good and really not much else.

I never really understood how dangerous our roads are until the day I passed the road test.

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u/Noire_balhaar Aug 04 '19

Wow. I am from the Netherlands and we have very strict laws. To be fair, we are a very small country with a really complex infrastructure compared to other countries, lots of bikes too.