What is driving in Australia like?
normal i guess
>>29143821just like anywhere else really. despite me driving a 5+ metre long 60 year old barge i still had to semi-regularly swerve for people changing lanes without looking lol.
Fine, like driving in a western euro country.
>>29143821Good. Not much traffic where I am in Tassie.
shut the fuck up canberra botfarm, i hope your kids get flattened by a f150
>>29143821Slow
>70 in an 60 zone>Driving unlicensed>Driving with no rego>Driving with no headlights>Refusing to pay for parkingThat'll be 20 demerit points and a $10k fine
>>29143821Lot's of chinese people making left turns from the right lane
>>29143845your roof scoop is on backwards
>>29143821indians with international licences everywhere
>>29143821You gotta watch for chazzwozzels when they blink right out into your wundasnatch and bailey your bullweevil right grunda.
>>29143821I want to go for comfy night drives in the mountains but retarded wallabies and kangaroos are everywhere
>>29143879It's an air outlet.
>>29143845when in the fuckery is going on with your mx5
>>29143821In the cities it's like beijing.Anywhere, the cops are aggro as fuck
>>29143879Everything is backwards in Australia.
The land dewn undah
>>29143845It looks like another planet
>>29143821>What is driving in Australia like?Intense.
Probably like this
>>29144392>live in a post apocalypse shithole>fight tooth and nail for supplies>guzzolene is among the three rarest and most valuable>still drive around in quad compound sequential turbo supercharged nitromethane powered guzzlers getting 0.0000001 MPGMad Max is one of my Top 3 favourite franchises and I wouldn't change anything about it for the world, but fuck if it isn't just the dumbest premise in film.
>>29143821Everything is backwards and upside down. Be sure to strap in if you drive a convertible or you'll fall out.
>>29143821Potholes everywhere. A dude on cruiser died not too long ago hitting one and there was this big protest but commies running shit will do fuckall about it
>>29143821Pretty fine, people drive a lot better here than in the US in my experience and I spent a lot of time in different parts of the US. I think the only truly shitty place for driving I can think of might be Brisbane, the freeways there are just as chaotic and gridlocked at peak hour as you might see in Los Angeles.
>>29144421>people drive a lot better here than in the US in my experienceI think the only place with worse drivers than the US might be India
>>29144424Vietnam is also a lot worse than the US for drivers, probably China too based on all the videos that go around online. People in the southern states actually drove a lot better than in places like LA, but that might also be since it's a slower pace of life and a far lower population or something, though people also had some absolute shitheap cars and I saw one getting around in North Carolina that seemed like just a frame, an engine and some seats with some wooden box tied to the back as a trunk.
>>29144421>I think the only truly shitty place for driving I can think of might be Brisbane, the freeways there are just as chaotic and gridlocked at peak hourDoesn't everyone just Uber or take the trains?
>>29144643Depends. Some areas have good service, some areas have shit service. A big problem is how you actually get to any of the transport hubs. It took fucking ages to get a train station for the Springfield area out west and even then the line ends pretty much right there.
>>29143821A nightmare as half the traffic are jeets in camrys who drive like utter retards. Always doing 20-40kph under in the fast lane. Boomers who get into a tunnel and panic because there's no shoulder and go half the speed limit. Idiots who queue up in a single lane for no reason and don't even bother splitting across the other 2 empty lanes (works good for me tho).
>>29144424>I think the only place with worse drivers than the US might be IndiaSo Australia then :,(
>>29144431>People in the southern states actually drove a lot better than in places like LA, but that might also be since it's a slower pace of life and a far lower population or somethingthe cities are the same way. if you go to Atlanta it feels more laid-back and not as energetic as NYC.
>>29144407>cruiser diedBased
Van drivers are even worse than ute drivers.
>asian women in a SUV's>curry's in a marone vehicle>afghans in camry's or clapped out hilux'sbesides the flood of chinkshit, the uptick of volume in tesla's and cops willing to do 150km/h in 60km/h zone to catch someone doing 70, it seems as though the enthusiast market has been filled by cla's, s4 and a few crown's. think most of the gen 5 6 and 7 gti's have died and the odd falcon and commodore are now sunday cars.
>>29144424I hear Paris is pretty bad.
>>29145336biffa could fix that with lane mafs
>>29144402expected but giggled>>29144421brisbane makes one guy really fucking angry for some reason he keeps making threads about it
I haven't experienced a single rush-hour commute on the M1 that didn't have an accident occur in months. I hate the M1 so god damn much.
>>29144849Yeah very true, I went through a few big cities in a few southern states and they were nowhere near as insane as LA was.>>29145345>brisbane makes one guy really fucking angry for some reason he keeps making threads about itI've seen him too, he seems to mostly bitch about parking for some reason and I don't understand that one at all. Driving in Brisbane is a fucking nightmare, but the parking is honestly fine, so I don't get why he has constant meltdowns about trying to find a parking space of all things.
>>29144407>commies running shit. Ironically a huge reason for all the potholes stems from the fact that Vicroads privatised all the road repair work. When you're motivated by profits solely you cut corners and the roads go to shit. >>29144421>>29144643It is a congested sprawling mess. I deliberately bought within walking distance of a train line and barely drive at all now unless its for fun or a roadtrip.
>>29145656suddenly sydney doesn't seem all that bad
>>29145651ironically LA is very much a Southern city by latitude, it's about at the same latitude as Atlanta
>>29145656ah yes, capitalism is the fault of why that project that only "approved licensed contractors" can work on ends up shitty.
>>29143821It's like this>Most people drive everywhere 10km/h over the limit>Police are aggressive especially if they imagine you have something over them>They will defect your car if its too low>Fines for everything are massive>A lot of roads are garbage and even major highways are patched the fuck up with cracks everywhere>There's no originality and everyone drives normie cars because the police will rekt you out of spite
>>29145656Kennet should have been hanged
>>29145924Privately owned>work is done as cheaply as possible to maximise profits >literally a financial motive to do a moderately shitty job so there's more business>contract managers (pencil pushers) who don't know anything about the job don't know the private business is fucking them>tendering incentivises lying about ability to deliver a lot for an unrealistic low price>NO accountability for shit workCorrectly funded in-house/public>financial incentive to do good work to reduce call back>good pay for workers attracts and retains skilled staff, promotes pride in work>accountable for shoddy work
>>29147249>Most people drive everywhere 10km/h over the limitsure as shit not in sydney. everyone does 10 under, then they do another 10 under when there's any kind of speed (or even just a red light only) camera ahead, or if there's a cop in their midst.my speedo was dead nuts accurate so it was even more annoying because I was doing exactly 60 for example and everyone around me is doing 50
>>29147260these are ultimately all faults of the government that's giving out the work though
>>29145626I used to commute on the Ring road and there was a fucking crash every week that would grid lock it. Lucky for me I get to filter through it all. One time it added an hour to my coworkers commute where it only added a few minutes to mine.
>>29145656Its not that simple, WA had the best road surfaces in the country when i was there and it was privatised since the 90s (they recently reverted).This is just vic labor looking for an easy scapegoat so they don't have to admit the fact that of all the states, they've been 2nd last by big margin in road funding for 20 years in a row. It shouldn't be privatised but lack of funding is what really fucked it. The whole patching 1 gorrillion potholes slogan is also fucking retarded - the road base needs to be completely redone. and before some liberal kike uses this as ammunition they're somehow even worse.
