Kiwi tips for beginning drivers?

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Agent Abe Caprine said:
Keep a flask of whiskey in your car. Cures road rage.
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In a lot of countries, slight alcohol content in blood is permitted (0.01-0.03%). If you're a pot smoking degenerate, a good way to make it far less likely to get drug tested (lick or sweat) when stopped is to have a bit of alcohol show up in breathalyzer, but in legal limit. I do this by drinking non-alcoholic beer behind the wheel all the time (those actually have a bit of alcohol in em), but careful sips of something harder work too. Cops intuition is that you had a beer some hours ago, clearly you're not a drug addled subhuman.
 
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I can even offer a simulator for training
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When on an on-ramp about to merge onto a freeway, GET UP TO FREEWAY SPEEDS FFS. Half of the traffic jams I encounter are because idiots getting on the freeway are going half the speed limit and the people getting off the freeway are riding the car in front of them's asses. LEARN TO ZIPPER MERGE FFS.

Another thing: people won't cut you off if you give them room to get in front of you.

You WILL have people riding your ass if you're not riding the car's ass in front of you, even if you're going the same speed, fuck 'em. I got out of the habit of break checking people and instead if someone is a couple inches from my ass I'll just let off the gas and flip my emergency lights on to make them think I'm breaking. One time I had an African right on my ass on a freeway with a speed limit of 65. I literally slowed to 40mph and he refused to go around me. This was in the middle of the fucking freeway. People are assholes.

Traffic drives me insane.
 
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PFM said:
When on an on-ramp
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As for off-ramps, don't be surprised to meet a boomer in opposite direction coming at you who mistook it for an on-ramp. Most people do eventually realize they're in the wrong way when on the highway already, and stop on the emergency lane and call cops to stop traffic so they can make u-turn, so you never see that. But exit ramps that become an on-ramp to somebody taking wrong turn early on is where you'll be playing the game of chicken for reals most of the time.
 
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tuka said:
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As for off-ramps, don't be surprised to meet a boomer in opposite direction coming at you who mistook it for an on-ramp. Most people do eventually realize they're in the wrong way when on the highway already, and stop on the emergency lane and call cops to stop traffic so they can make u-turn, so you never see that. But exit ramps that become an on-ramp to somebody taking wrong turn early on is where you'll be playing the game of chicken for reals most of the time.
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On that same note, if you're driving on the freeway at 2am don't use the HOV lane because supremely hammered people driving the wrong way on the freeway tend to get in the far right lane thinking it's the slow lane.
 
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For a manual, practice the SHIT out of hill-starts. It's the one few skill issues with manuals that can absolutely ruin your day when some assbite with a Merc is riding your bumper when you're on a steep-ass hill and can't perform.

The trick is finding the bite-point for the clutch that prevents backslide when in gear. You may smell clutch the first few times you try on a hill as you get used to how much gas you need to feed in to prevent a stall.
 
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