Thursday, May 13, 2010

Did You Know that...

  1. There are 10 sequential steps to be followed in overtaking a vehicle on the road?
  2. There are 3 types of Parking?
  3. You must check 6 parts within the bonnet of the car before driving away in it each morning?
  4. The minimum distance between your vehicle and the one in front must differ with the speed as follows:
one car's length at 15 kmph
two cars' length at 30 kmph
three cars' length at 45 kmph
..........and so on?????


Well there are more such rules. But in a country like ours, these are useless, at least until a mammoth revolution takes place, changing the way we think, act and yes, DRIVE. Till then, these rules (especially the last one which is the most unfeasible, IMO ;) ) shall find their uses only in putting pitiable 20 yr-olds to sleep, when they take the effort of waking early during a vacation and in consuming a few minutes of your precious time spent in reading this post ;)

1 comment:

Ramakrishnan said...

shilpa
How is your driving coming up ? Yesterday shobhi & I were on our morning walk & we saw you inside the cool comfort of the Ambal Driving school.
Driving on Indian roads is one of the most difficult things to attempt - drivers follow no rules & drive as they please -totally ruthless, unmindful, uncaring,reckless, overspeeding,jump signals, pedestrian unfriendly,use loud horns in school & hospital zones etc etc. You have to have excellent reflexes & you must have exceptional road judgement and able to anticipate what the other bloke is going to do next. They say that if you can drive in India you can drive any where in the world.I am not true sure of this. Indians have such bad driving habits that they have to spend at least one month when they go abroad to undo these habits and learn driving the correct way. And again when you you return to India - you need a few weeks to develop all the bad habits again.
Good Luck with your driving !