AUSSIE VS AMERICAN DRIVING | AMERICAN REACTS
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Welcome back 💩 Today we’re checking out “Kinda Australian” again! Lets learn the differences between American and Australian driving! 🥰
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Welcome back 💩 Today we’re checking out “Kinda Australian” again! Lets learn the differences between American
and Australian driving! 🥰
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Filtering is when bikes drive between the Cars at the red lights.
It puts the bike at the front and usually they can ride off quicker when the lights go green.
Thank you!
@@ToniaElkins Also lane splitting. You can ride between moving cars up to 30Kph (in NSW. May be different in other states.).
To clarify regarding the digital licence in NSW where she lives, it's not mandatory. You still have a physical licence card (that's the mandatory bit) however you can opt to have a digital one in addition too, and it is officially recognised by the state police, pubs, clubs etc if you leave your card at home. But the catch is that these are not accepted in every state. There are other significant US/Australia differences she didn't cover: we don't have 4 way stops (thank god!) where everyone is trying to figure out who got there first. Also you *cannot* turn left on red unless there is a sign saying you can, and these are uncommon unless the intersection has a left turn slip/merge lane.
Thank you for clarifying. 😊 The 4 way stop thing here isn’t too confusing actually. Cuz most of the time you don’t have 4 cars there at the same time, unless you’re in a bigger city. But you just naturally learn to watch each street and whoever stops first goes first and if you stop at the same time the person to your right goes first.. idk it’s a whole thing. But honestly in my city which is approximately 150,000 people we don’t usually have any issues with it. We have a very small town feel and just wave to let the others go first 😆
The P plates stand for Provisional driver's license. Apart from the speed restrictions, a driver on a provisional license cannot drive with any alcohol or illicit drugs in their blood. And the police routinely set up traffic stops, and pull over vehicles at random and test the drivers for alcohol and drugs. You can be breath tested for alcohol, and a saliva swab tested for drugs. Penalties are significant.
Oh wow! Strict, but that’s a good thing safety wise.
Filtering refers to the practice of riding your 'bike between cars that are stopped at a red light. This not only allows you to get up to the front at the light, but also gets you away from any car that might hit you in the rear end.
Ahhh ok thank you for explaining! Yeah I see them do that all the time here. We absolutely hate that crap 😂 But it’s also more dangerous In my personal opinion bc any car can just switch lanes at any time and hit a motorcycle going through cars. So it makes sense to me for it to be illegal. Lol
@@ToniaElkins Yes legal here but you do need to be very careful as the bike noise can surprise drivers, I ride but usually don't filter unless there is a clear distance between the vehicles. If you go to Malaysia (for instance) lane filtering is what all motorbikes do. It is expected from motorists that you will go up to the front at red lights,. These are my observations/experiences and others may have differing view points.
@@edwardt1941 Yeah it seems like the biker would have to be real careful and mindful of the cars around them. It makes me nervous when they do it lol
I have a mate who is an Ambo (Ambulance driver).. he is adamant about helmets and seatbelts.. As much as its an individuals choice to be safe, its not a choice that amboes get to pick up your head parts with tongs.
I agree, definitely should always be safe! I’m never in a car without my seat belt and neither are my kids.
Love your reactions. At least you are genuine
Awe thank you so much. That means a lot 💜
Most of these things apply to new south Wales drivers. It varies from state to state
Yes 🙌 exactly! We are from Queensland while my daughter is on her L’s she can do the legal signed posted speed limit that says 100km or 110km, she doesn’t have to do 90 km limited to L or red P platers on freeways like everyone that holds a learner or provisional licence from New South Wales. Even in NSW she can drive to the posted speed limit on her L’s I think it’s wrong forcing L and P platers to drive to a different limit to everyone else. Glad I don’t live in Sydney anymore.
Yeah it sounds like it’s similar to here where things vary by state as well 😊
Try flying a plane in Australia! Roads = wheel on right hand side. Planes = Stick on the left hand side.
She is from Philadelphia.
Police drive around and have Electronic recognition in their cars. It reads number plate on your car and can tell if your car has had its registration payments up to date or not.
Same she's only talking about the state she's in Australia 🇦🇺 as well
It's why when watching these sites alot are local to their state or area here
Like yeah Na Na yeah we don't say that here it's a Queensland thing
It's how we can tell where their from even way pronounce words even the slang tell you where and age
Our driving laws are universal in every state in every state just the fines are different
We don't do that in my state adelaide s a
As they believed it was dangerous in the wet especially for motor bikes but vechiles as well slipping on paint
They did a heap of testing
It's like we used to put finely ground glass with the white line to reflect at night
But stopped as bike riders sliding on them was tearing them open
They are testing out fluorescent lines for night time to glow up and be charged during the day by hot sun so the eliminate at night
Cheers mate 🦘🇦🇺👍
I’ve had to adjust to driving on the opposite side to what I’m used to visiting other countries. It takes a little getting used to. The indicator switch and the wiper switch are on opposite sides and also getting in the passenger side of the car instead of the driver side I’ve done that a few times and can be a bit confusing on roundabouts for the first time.
Omg I didn’t even think about the turn signal etc also being on the other side. I’d be so confused 😂
@@ToniaElkins If it’s a stick shift, the pedals are on the opposite side that gets really confusing and changing gears in my case with the right arm not the left 😂
It’s a lot of fun😂
@@firebrand2619 Omg I’m getting an Uber 100% if I leave the USA 😂
@@ToniaElkins 🤣
I really like that with you being American you can let us know what isn't 100%
Thank you! I can tell y’all things from my area that I know to be true or false but I can’t speak for the entirety of the country lol. Like I said I’ve never been to Pennsylvania and it’s true that every state is different, but we have to remember a lot of things online are very opinion based 🥰
@@ToniaElkins I don’t think she’s a very experienced driver probably explained her lack of knowledge on the subject. Not a criticism just an observation.
@@firebrand2619 I agree, it could be a mix of her not driving much in general or only driving in PA and Australia I don’t know. But yeah, I’m happy to give my 2 cents on my own region 😊
@@ToniaElkins i’m happy to give my two Bob worth Aussie an British slang.
I'm Aussie and the same rarely use apps
Even use cash and hard copy licence
You have options at the moment
But are trying to change but still enough politicians against it
So it's up to individual and cops now just pull it up on their screens
Have your photo as well because all licences are photo Id
The younger one's love everything on them even use phone to pay for meals take away
It's why they loose their mines if can't find phone has everything on it even do tax on them
We call it petrol after petroleum gas is different and all gas house or vechile has additives to make it smell
This way you know if it's leaking before explosion hopefully
We have heaps of rounder abouts as speed humps hinder emergency vechiles to much like fire trucks ambulance
I ride a bike never herd filter but guessing riding between stopped vechiles at traffic lights
The L plate has to have a licence driver next to them before able to drive and do a log book with so many hours and need to be signed off then a couple with registered trainer and then can do a test drive to pass costs around $1000 to do this
As for p plates differences are speed restrictions how many in vechile and night time curfews like have to be off the road by a certain time unless it's for work then get exemption but only to drive to and from work if caught outside that loose licence
It takes a year before you can move to the next level as you progress night curfew no longer and still limited on how many in vechile at night also no alcohol or drugs under any of them instant loss of licence unlike when on full licence. 05 our limit and must be under you blow .05 you get arrested for drink driving and every cop car has hand held breatherliser unit and drug test kits as well they have RBT random Breath Testing that travel around they pull over banks of traffic up to 10 cars at a time and test the drivers
They stay their a couple hrs then move to another spot so you never know where they are and always at major events like football concerts ect
They surround the streets and get people leaving
It instant lose of licence and big fine depending on how high they'll impound vechile until see judge
Then you pay for the tow and storage which if high maditory 28 days and many thousands to get vechile back
They did studies when new drivers have accidents and why the multiple stages of licence and why restrictions as these are high risks for new driver's
Cheers 🦘🇦🇺👍
I taught both my kids to drive (NSW). The only cost (aside from petrol) was for doing the test, $65. Both of them failed the first try. So $130 each to get licenced.
Just remembered there was some sort of safety course that cost $80, last for 3 hours but counts for 10 hours on the log book. So, $210 each.
@@sigmaoctantis1892 yeah you can do only so many hrs here with licence driver then a certain ammount with registered instructors
I taught two of my nieces before they had to get instructors and by the time they'd finished cost around $1000 is what they told me
They actually like me as teacher they couldn't do it with their parents used to get in fights
I could pick up where they where going wrong and advise them calmly and we talk through it as I exsplain or asked them a question
No yelling or screaming and they could relax listern
Only once I had to grab the wheel and never got upset and she didn't want to drive anymore
Got her to pull over we had a talk with encouragement she drove some more that day a didn't freak out when truck pulled out of corner again
She couldn't keep car in straight line and I worked out why when I ask her where she was looking I told to look up the road about two poles
She said I won't be able to stay in lines and didn't want to
I replied try it your not staying in the lines now so nothing to loose trying she did and never crossed the line's again
So I'm guessing training time with instructors in my state are for longer period of time
Also these instructors do the testing and pass them but at anytime a government instructor can show up and go with them
This way instructors need to make sure they're teaching them properly otherwise they can loose their credentials to teach
Filtering at lights is for a bike to get up near the front is safer for the rider. The rider cant do this at speed but when traffic is banked up and the bike can trval slowly through.
Its safer to do this than just stop behind a vehicle and if a car or truck driver isnt paying attention then the bike rider will be hit from behind.
I can tell you it ain't great being hit from behind on a bike.
I would imagine it doesn’t feel great lol. Bikers make me nervous (here) bc they’re so reckless. Americans can be real idiots 😂
You can look up a Aussie show called RBT
This will show you our drinking drug testing units and laws if interested
Cheer again 🦘🇦🇺👍
I just watched the El Camino movie so I know there is at least one "Ute" type.
Yeah exactly lol
Interesting reviews Tonia. Canberra the capital of Australia LOVES roundabouts. Good to hear another American's point of interest. You need to remember the cost of fuel too as it consists of 40% in taxes. Those in the bush need heavy duty vehicles & the "tradies" or contractors need reliable workhorses to support their work.
Most confusing American road rule is the 4 way Stop sign intersection. We have both Stop and the triangle Yield signs (Yield is Give Way instead). The local government will decide one road is superior to the other and place just 2 Give Way signs for the inferior road.
We have Yield signs here too. But they aren’t at all our 4 way stops. The 4 way stop sign thing is something you have to kinda get used to when beginning but after driving a little while you become used to it and it’s not a big deal anymore. I never really realized that was something you see more often in the USA lol.
You still get a physical licence as well.
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roundabouts, was first done in uk, then was copied in europe (france has the biggest until late 90s arc de triumph), since aus is a colony we automatically adopted since the 40s.... but brits and rest of the world did not utilise the roundabouts (only recently that they became more, the same with USA (they recently just had them as an urban standard planning, america had very few them (but started adopting more after the 2000s, in the 60s, was the said san francisco hill streets were being the first trials and got adopted but not as utilise)..... aus have more them (since back in the 60s when they became numerous even up to now) because politicians in aus became obsess with roundabouts (an easy way of making money on the sly for their family or friends tendering, as it was easy approval under the radar of public audit, being cheap and easy to keep constructing them, and they keep re-doing (demolish put new of same thing)), so any chance they get they will.... also back then aus was very resistant of putting traffic lights expenses and use the excuse of road authority studies of actual physical hurdles are more effective in safetiness to trafficking decision discipline than maintaining electricity cost of traffic lights .... the thing in aus is there's public opinion of reducing them because there's far too many and impractical in some cases, and the need of actual traffic lights due to cases of more thicker traffic which are the limitation of roundabouts.....
Filtering in the U.S is dependent on the state (Called *Lane-splitting* )...
In Australia riding between moving cars is called lane splitting, it is called filtering when the cars are stopped. In NSW, lane splitting is permitted up to 30Kph (full licence only).
Oh ok! I looked it up on google and it says California is the only place it’s legal. According to google lol
@@sigmaoctantis1892 Thanks for the clarification.
I think what she should of said, traffic laws and infrastructure is more uniform in Australia then America, where one county might have different infrastructure and slightly different minor laws to the next county. Filtering means two cars stopped side by side at traffic lights and a motor cycle slips down in between them to wait for change of lights.
Thank you! Yeah it seems like the differences are pretty minor. But definitely something that like an American like me going there might get confused lol.
Petrol=Petroleum
G'day a lot of the things that have said as fact here in Australia does not apply in each State. A true Ute has the tray incorporated with the body/cab of the vehicle.
She has that same "Pencilvania" issue with things that are unique to the State she now lives in here in Australia.
Yeah it seems like it’s similar to here with things varying by state.
Electronic licence is up to you you don't have to have one
Oh ok! That’s good that you have the choice. That’s better I think.
It’s only a thing in the state of New South Wales.
I keep my physical licence a holographic card I live in the same zip code as Kaitlyn the younger ones like this I don't ahh peanut plates the experts on the road well we all were once
My sister terrified a few of her boyfriends when they tried to teach her to drive 🤣 The P-Plates never used to exist, I went from learners straight to a full license, then to court several times 😁. I'm with you about the apps, I'll only have a physical one. I've seen plenty of Chevies here, from old 1920's models to the newest Cameros and Corvettes. The Holden Monaro was marketed in the States in the early 2000's as a Chevy, even gaining a spot in the PC game 'Need For Speed' at the time. BTW Helmets are also compulsory for pushbikes here and have been since 1991. The road rules for roundabouts here is: first in first serve or you can just bully your way through while cussing everyone else😁😉
Lmao our 4 way stops are the same, first come first go. Chevy Camaro was my first car 💜
@@ToniaElkins So you were once a 'cool chick' then ya got married, had kids, now you drive a 5 seater bus lol
@@wholiddleolme476 Lol I definitely don’t drive a bus or mini van. I’m an SUV girly.
@@ToniaElkins I knew that BUT it's The Same Thing lol
Australia do not have Registration Stickers. Its all ELECTRONIC RECOGNITION. So COPs have your details and will know if your Registration is Paid or not.
Rather let the cat drive not the selfish drivers of today