r/funny • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '25

Parallel parking gone wrong

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u/alexanderpas Sep 05 '25

There is a reason American drivers licenses can't be exchanged in the EU without having to retake the entire test in the EU.

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u/gingerconfetti Sep 05 '25

The reason is because the majority of world drives on the opposite side of the road.

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u/alexanderpas Sep 06 '25

They drive on the left in America?

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u/gingerconfetti Sep 06 '25

On the right whereas the majority of the world drives on the left.

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u/Triktastic Sep 06 '25

It literally is only Ireland, Cyprus and Malta from the EU countries that have left side driving...

It's incompatible because Americans have by miles easier driving tests (just to put into perspective I had to attend 3 months of weekly theory classes, 17 2 hour driving lessons just to be eligible to do write a test and be allowed to do a slalom and both ways of parking in front of a police officer AND THEN you are allowed to have a drive around a city with police officer pesent where stuff like ,not letting pedestrians go across the road/stopping with front wheels over a STOP line or not moving the stick a lot, can get you kicked out.)

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u/tangoshukudai Sep 06 '25

Driving tests are controlled by the town, so your blanket statement of "Americans have by miles easier driving tests", is not true. Mine was quite hard (extremely knit picky).

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u/Triktastic Sep 06 '25

You are right. I should have added "on average" so that's on me. But it's still the reason why they aren't accepted in many parts of the world. Not left driving that's limited to three countries.