What did you 'find out' about cars/driving long after you passed your test?

Coveredinbees!!!!

People who drive everywhere at 40 don't like to be over taken.

shortdog

Pheasants are suicidal, and will wait until you are 3 feet away before leaping out in front of you and breaking the grille on your car.

If your cam belt snaps in the outside lane of a 4-lane motorway, your children will learn a whole new range of swearwords as you attempt to make it to the hard shoulder, and then a few more when you realise what happened.

When you break down on the side of the motorway, at 6.30am with 2 kids in the car, the traffic police who stop will be very pleasant. Until your youngest child asks them what some of the new words he has just learnt from his mummy mean.

When the road is very icy, and you park on a hill, the handbrake will stop the wheels from turning, but may not stop the car from ski-ing downhill.

Coveredinbees!!!!

There are no faster cars are rental cars.

TrickyWicky

AdrianC wrote: »

It does.
If there's lamp posts and no repeaters, it's a 30.
If there's no lamp posts, and no repeaters, it's NSL.

Where was this speed awareness course...?

I think the key bit you missed was "how far apart".

The poster didn't say lamp posts don't mean 30, they just said they learnt that the speed limit isn't set by how far apart lamp posts are. On most streets they're close together. On dual carriageways etc they tend to be spaced out more with more distance between them. I think thats what they were getting at.

Motorways have street lamps too yet the speed limit is 70 yet there are no repeaters..

Prothet_of_Doom

Gloomendoom wrote: »

The same with speed limits. Those signs with the white disc with a diagonal black line across them meant that you can drive as fast as you wanted... and we did.

The NSL sign. The N is for NO isn't it ?

Not long after my test I found out that overtaking the police on the Dock Road past bootle docks (now a 30, then a NSL) would result in blue lights and a producer.