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Driving Profile: Rinat
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RINAT: After getting used to living in Canada and the U.S., last time we visited Israel, we were approaching the crosswalk. We were not even at the crosswalk and we had a driver coming fast to the crosswalk.
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BHAVNEET: Welcome back to Drive With Us, a podcast where we bring on a new guest every episode to talk about the crazy things they experienced on the road, who they are as drivers and how they became the driver they are today. I’m Bhavneet.
TARANJIT: And I’m Taranjit. And today’s driver is Rinat, the co-host of That’s The Ticket podcast. And she is originally from Israel and she’s lived three years in the US before moving to Canada where she’s been for two years. And she shares with us the differences. She has seen driving and Israel versus driving in North America.
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BHAVNEET: Welcome Rinat. Thanks so much for joining us today.
RINAT: Thank you Taranjit and Bhavneet for inviting me.
TARANJIT: We like starting off with this question because we like to go straight into the crazy before we dive into what type of driver you are. So what would you say is one of your craziest driving stories?
RINAT: So I have a story where I wasn’t the driver, but I was riding on a 4 x 4 in Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia. We were maybe 4 friends and we we had a driver and a cook. And the driver was driving into Salar. Salar de Uyuni is a salt desert. So it’s a big surface of desert which is just made of salt And the driver was he just he navigated with no roads or anything. And one time we saw ducks on the road and the driver was approaching them very very slowly. And us at the back, we thought, he is so considerate. He doesn’t want to frighten the ducks. But then when he got really close to them, he started to drive really fast. And he caught 1 duck and he gave the cook the duck. And he said she’s going to make that for dinner. And it was I’m not sure it’s funny. Maybe it’s kind of weird. Awkward. Scary. Kind of funny. But it was definitely an experience that I remember well.
TARANJIT: Did he like stop the car with you in it to get the duck?
RINAT: Yeah.he stopped the car. He pulled the duck. Caught him on his neck and just give it to the cook. I think the cook was his wife. And it was kind of a multiple day. I don’t remember3 or 4 days trip and we had we had meals during the trip and the wife just cooked food for us. And no one from my group ate dinner that night. At least not the duck.
BHAVNEET: That’s hilarious. I mean what a surprising turn of events.
RINAT: Yeah. Yeah.
BHAVNEET: It’s like, oh he’s so nice. Oh no he’s gonna eat it.
RINAT: Yeah. Yeah. It was really surprising.
BHAVNEET: How was it driving on a salt desert compared to like just driving on the road?
RINAT: We were wondering how did he navigate because it’s really it has a lot of I mean, I mean, it’s very big desert. Like think about it, we drove there in the desert for a few days. So I’m not sure how big it is, but it’s really big. So we were wondering how he navigated and how he could find all the things that we saw on the way because there were like lakes in different colors. Like Emerald Lake and Red Lake. And the were Kenowa bushes that he showed us. And there were there was a village and there were the places that we slept in. We slept in like a salt motel. So we were wondering how did he manage to find all these things? Because if you look all around you you just see white surface. So you don’t really see any reference point to help you navigate. And there were no roads on th on the desert.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. That’s what I was wondering. LIke everything’s white. How do you know where you’re going? I would probably end up like back at your starting point. It’s like, oh. How did I get here?
RINAT: Yeah. It’s a good question. We Wouldn’t be able to do it by ourselves.
TARANJIT: That or I feel like I would get lost and then be stuck in the middle of nowhere and be like, oh. Now where do I go?
RINAT: Yeah.
TARANJIT: So I know like a lot of other countries outside the U.S. tend to have I feel like I’ve heard that they tend to have more crazier drivers. In Bolivia, did they like I guess abide by driving traffic laws or did they kind of just speed and do whatever they wanted to do?
RINAT: So in the salt desert most of the time we didn’t see anyone around. Now the other places I have been to in Bolivia are either small towns or a big city. And I guess in most places, I’ve been to, the the drivers in the big city are more careless, I think. More beeping and things like that
BHAVNEET: You mentioned that you have lived in three different countries. Which one would you say is the craziest in terms of drivers?
RINAT: Okay. So I lived in so I lived in Israel. That’s where I’m originally from. Then I lived for 3 years in the U.S. In Boulder. And now I live in Canada. Now. I definitely say that people are more crazy in Israel. But it’s it’s hard to say because in the U.S., I lived in a very specific part of the U.S., which is Boulder. Which is not not a very big city and people have a great driving culture. And also, here what where I live right now in Edmonton in Alberta people really they have a good driving culture. Now in Israel, the city that I was born in, it’s a small small city close to Tel Aviv. And people are pretty kind. They they stop when you want to cross the street and things like that. But in Tel Aviv, they’re not. And I lived in the like before I moved to North America, I lived in Tel Aviv for more than 10 years. So they’re the drivers wouldn’t always stop when you wanted to cross the street. And after getting used to living in Canada and the U.S. last time we visited Israel, we were like we were approaching the crosswalk. We were not even at the crosswalk and we had a driver coming fast to the crosswalk. Passes us and beeps us. Beeps so that we will not cross the road. And after getting used to living in North America, which it was kind of it was we were like, hmmm. Not only like the driver doesn’t stop, he also honk beeps us to not cross which is rude.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Very backwards.
RINAT: Yeah. Yeah, I guess we just got used to the culture here. Me and my husband. But also, I’m not sure if what I’m experiencing here in Edmonton and before that in Boulder, in Colorado in the U.S, I’m not sure that it’s representing all the U.S. I mean, I’m sure there are places where or all of Canada. I’m sure there are places where drivers are more beeping.
TARANJIT: So in Canada, where you are right now, are the drivers kind of similar to when you’re in the U.S.? More tame?
RINAT: Yeah. I guess is it’s kind of kind of similar. There is a good driving culture. People will let you If you want to pass into a different lane you’d usually have to use use your signal and they’ll just let you pass. And in Israel is not always like that. Usually in Israel if you if you use your signals because you want to pass people will just drive faster so that you’ll not be able to pass before them.
TARANJIT: Did you ever drive in Israel or did you just only drive here in the U.S. and Canada?
RINAT: No. I drove in all. I had driving license in all three places and I was driving in all of them. And in Israel so I have to say that also in Israel, there are different places and it’s not a very big country. But I’m talking mostly about Tel Aviv area and the center area when I say that people will not let you pass. And I’m not sure how it is in the north of the country or the south of the country. There are less cars on the roads and people generally are more laid-back than in Tel Aviv. Because in Tel. Aviv, everyone is in a hurry all the time. So I guess it affects the way they drive.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I can definitely agree. Here on the east coast of the U.S. everyone’s always in the more of a hurry, so everyone’s a whole lot crazier over here. But out of all of the places that you have lived or where you are now, are there any stereotypes that are associated with the drivers that are in that area?
RINAT: When I talk with other Israelis, we agreed that drivers here are more polite and they have good driving culture.
TARANJIT: So now that we’ve heard some of your driving stories, let’s get into what type of driver you are. If you were given the option would you rather be the driver or the passenger?
RINAT: So I can tell you about how it goes with me and my husband. Generally I prefer that he’ll drive during the first half of the day and I’ll drive during the second half of the day. So it’s just because I’m more of a night person and I’m more awake during the late hours of the day. And when I wake up in the morning I’m more sleepy and text me hours until I get to full function.
TARANJIT: That’s very interesting. I guess it works out for you that one person likes the day and one person likes the night.
RINAT: Yeah. My husband is the morning person.
TARANJIT: Do you find that driving in the nighttime is easy or is it is a difficult? Because I know like when it gets darker out, a lot of people have problems with like headlights and stuff or like seeing.
RINAT: Yeah. So if I talk about travels, so most times it happens that I get the more challenging part of the drive because of that. First of all, because when you drive when there are animals around there more likely to jump to the to the road at night. I mean, it’s also happens really early in the morning. I guess, but we don’t go out that the early. So we miss the animals that go out in the every morning and when we get back in the evening, I get to be the one that have animals jumping to the road.
TARANJIT: Have you ever encountered an animal while driving?
RINAT: Yeah. One time we were in our travels. We like to travel a lot. And we were in Colorado at the west side of Colorado. Close to the mountains. And there was we suddenly saw a bear on the road. It was a road that just it wasn’t in a national park or anything. So we didn’t expect that. And we saw the bear. We stopped the car. I don’t even remember if it was made that was me driving or my husband, but we stopped the car and the bear was looking at us. And it was so big. And we were it looks like he hesitated and then we thought like maybe he’s hesitating if he wants to attack us or I’m not sure. It was pretty frightening. But then a car drove fast next to us and also passed the bear. It was just in the other lane. And the bear decided to just walk away. So it was pretty scary experience.. But nothing happened again. It was just the bear was so big and tall and it it looked bigger than our car. So we thought he could hold the car and throw it away if it wants.
TARANJIT: Oh my gosh. That would have been so scary if he actually did come to your car.
RINAT: Yeah. It was just staring at us for a long I don’t know maybe 30 seconds or 20 seconds, but it seemed like it was a really long time.
BHAVNEET: Well, it’s a good thing that the other car came and like sped past.
RINAT: Yeah, I don’t know if it’s it might have saved us.
TARANJIT: Has that affected you while you’re driving in the night? Like are you more looking out for animals now or are you still comfortable driving at night?
RINAT: I’m still comfortable. Just I’m not sure what will happen if sometime an animal would run to the road and it it might happen that it will just go straight into the car because they never look left or right. They just run. And I believe it could happen, but I guess in every time you go on the road you’re at risk. So I’m not sure if I should be more scared to drive. I mean maybe we should be scared to just wake up in the morning and drive in the city and during the day. Because also now that I live in Canada, when the snow season starts and there is that it’s kind of around that 0 degrees Celsius, I guess 30 Fahrenheit or something like that, a lot of cars slips on the road because there’s no is kind of in the middle between melting and freezing. It’s very slippery. And then on this days when I drive, I see a lot of cars on the side of the road that had accidents. So it could happen that I was driving just somewhere in the city, I don’t know like 15 minutes drive, and I would see maybe 3 car accidents along the way. So it could also be scary, but I’m just I’m not going to stop using my car because there are places you have to go that are not walking distance. And I’m not sure that I’d trust someone else to drive better than me. I mean, they might be able to drive better and I might be able to drive better, but I’ll just use cars
TARANJIT: Yeah. I feel like you trust yourself most of the time you trust yourself as the driver more than getting in a car with someone else. Especially in like snow situations because if you don’t have control of the car then just like it can be scary.
RINAT: Yeah, I’m not sure that I trust myself more than other drivers. I guess I trust myself more than other drivers I don’t know. But I guess about experience, driving in the snow I’m sure that they are drivers that have much more experience driving into snow. So if for example I met someone that is in Native Canadian that has been here forever and was driving the snow forever. I guess I’d trust him more than myself. But it doesn’t happen a lot. Most of the times I had it has to be either me or my husband or an Uber driver that I don’t know
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I mean you’ve been living up there for a bit now, so you must have more experience in being able to handle it.
RINAT: And I have to say that having winter tires is it makes makes a big difference. And I feel much safer here with winter tires and I think that makes more of the difference than who is driving.
BHAVNEET: So how would you describe the type of driver that you are and would you say that your family and friends would describe your driving in the same way?
RINAT: I am careful, but I’m not too careful, I think. I mean I try to be polite to other drivers, but I’m not like it wouldn’t wouldn’t take me too long to decide to to cross the street with the car or to take a turn or something like that. It’s not that I’m too careful, but I’m not speeding. I’m not or at least I try not to speed, and I obey the rules and everything.
BHAVNEET: So not honking at people to not cross the road?
RINAT: No. No no. Yeah.
TARANJIT: So I know you were mentioning earlier that where you live in Canada right now is not as aggressive drivers. So do they honk there and have you ever had a situation where you had to honk at someone?
RINAT: They honk more in downtown. That’s what I experienced. But another thing now that I’m thinking about it, it’s not that, but it’s really very close to White Ave. Which is it it’s an avenue in in Edmonton which is has a lot of pubs and restaurants and people go out there a lot. And a lot of times, there are cars there that have this they make it sound like they were in an action movie. They’ll be like, *makes loud car noise.* Like very loud sounds from the muffler. They deliberately make the car sound like it’s driving and it’s it’s really annoying. It makes a lot of noise and actually the the city I think decided or if it was offered that they’ll decide that they’ll give tickets to people who do that. But that’s something that is really annoying and it only happens mostly in that part of the city in this specific street. I mean, it happens a lot of also in other places but mostly in that street and I really don’t get it why people like it.
TARANJIT: That’s interesting that they are considering giving tickets for that.
RINAT: Yeah. Yeah because it’s a problem for people that live around there. And for us, even just just going out there. it’s it’s not not really it’s not really nice to to just walk in the street and have this noise all the time.
BHAVNEET: But I agree. I don’t understand the like I don’t understand the interest in why you need your car to be so loud and obnoxious.
RINAT: Yeah. I think that it makes them feel like they’re in some kind of an action movie or something and they’re the heroes or something that’s driving the cool car. And you know a lot of this cars so a lot of times it’s a big motorcycle or a convertible or a sports car or things like that. They’re think they’re really cool.
TARANJIT: So going of of this, so we’ve kind of heard you mention that this is one of the things that annoys you about drivers. What would you say is your biggest pet peeve when you are driving from other drivers? Like what is one thing that you really don’t like about their drivers?
RINAT: I mean besides that thing? Just like when people wouldn’t let you pass on purpose or things like that.
BHAVNEET: Are you someone who overtakes other people often?
RINAT: No. I’m a so if someone drives really slowly, I’ll try to pass them maybe. But I’ll take I’ll not beep them. I’ll not be annoying to them and try to make them go faster or anything. Just if it’s two lanes where another car could come in front of me., I’ll try to just to wait until the car passes and just pass. And sometimes people will not let you move to the other lane. So or things like that. It is mostly behavior that I encountered in Israel. And where people who drive they don’t keep a lot of distance between the cars. So sometimes it’s not easy to move to the right lane or things like that. And I noticed that the drivers here and in Boulder would just if you just use your signal, they’ll just let you pass to the other lane. But there it’s happens a lot that they wouldn’t. So sometimes I would prefer not to use the signal and sometimes I would prefer to use it just to have people drive past me so that I can get in behind them. But sometimes it’s still really hard to get in between the cars.
BHAVNEET: That’s funny that’s you have to use your signal to make people go faster.
RINAT: Yeah. Completely. Yeah. Because they will. They will a lot of the times. They’ll just go faster and then I could get in behind them and it’s also works. But I prefer that they’ll either do that or I mean and not just stop me from getting to the other lane in any cost.
TARANJIT: Yeah. As you were describing that happening in Israel, that’s kind of really similar to what happens here where we live in Maryland because if you…
RINAT: Okay.
TARANJIT: Yeah. If you a lot of people don’t use your signal first of all, and then if you do use your signal, people either speed up or not let you in the lane anyways. So it’s like, do I use my signal or do I not use my signal?
RINAT: Yes, so there I would definitely because if I use the signal or not, it wouldn’t let me it wouldn’t make it any more easy for me to pass the lane most of the times. But sometimes I’m like if if there is kind of distance between the cars, I will just use it to make them speed up and it works.
BHAVNEET: It’s definitely a unique art learning how to drive in different places. But now that we know the type of driver are you, let’s go back to your driving firsts. So, how how would you describe your first time driving experience? And who was it with?
RINAT: So in Israel it’s it’s not like here. Here you could learn how to drive with someone, you know, right? But in Israel you have to take a teacher a driving teacher. So you would take a certain amount of lessons with the teacher and only then you’re allowed to take the driving test. So my first time was with a professional teacher. I think it’s a good. I mean you think it’s good that there are professional driving teachers that teach you how to drive.
TARANJIT: So how was the driving test? Like what did you have to do in the Israell driving test? And I guess you’ve taken it here in the U.S. and Canada, too. So like what are the differences between the tests?
RINAT: Well, in Israel, you have to just drive usually it’s where you took the driving lesson. So it was in the city I grew up in and you’ll have to do like parallel parking which is something I didn’t have to do it in the U.S. And in Canada, I actually didn’t need to take the driving test because I had the U.S. driving license and they accepted that and to give me my Canadian driving license. And in the U.S. actually in the U.S. it was a shorter test. And it was really just driving to the next neighborhood and coming back to the DMV.,I think. It wasn’t that. Interesting an experience. I mean, the only thing is that in the U.S. the the tester was chatting with me, which was I guess different than it was for me in Israel.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. That’s mind blowing every time I hear someone say that they did not have to do parallel parking for their tests and it’s like why not?
RINAT: Yeah. I am not sure. I’m sure I needed to do parallel parking. Maybe I needed and I forgot it because you know, I wasn’t as stressed for the U.S. driving license test because I did drove for many years before that. So maybe I did have to do parallel parking and I don’t remember, but since I lived in Tel Aviv, I did a lot of parallel parking in my life. So even if if I needed to do it, I don’t think it was a big deal. While when I was 18 and took my first driving test in Israel, that was one of the things that people my age were worried about.
TARANJIT: Is there an age limit of when you can get the license in Israel? I know that in the US you have to be 15 and so many months or almost 16 to start learning to drive. Is there an age limit in Israel?
RINAT: Yes. Sure there is. I’m not sure what the age limit now. When I was taking the driving license test you needed to be at least 17I think to start taking driving lessons and also for the driving test .
BHAVNEET: I guess that makes sense since you have a whole new level of craziness that you have to be able to handle on the roads.
RINAT: Yeah. Yeah. But I took it in the city where I grew up which is much less crazy than what I was describing inTel Aviv.
BHAVNEET: Bonus question time. If you could make one new driving law, what would it be?
RINAT: Okay, that’s a hard question. New driving law. You know what I think one of the laws that is a good thing in Israel.I mean I until now I I I only said maybe bad things about the country I grew up in. But one thing that is good is that you have traffic lights and if you have a red light, you need to stop and if you have a green light, you can pass. And it’s always like that. It’s it’s the rule.And in the U..S and Canada, it’s not like that because you can if you have a red light you can still take a right turn and if you have a green light and you’re turning left, it’s possible that you have cars coming from in front of you. So you still maybe not be able to drive. And I think it makes it much more simple and it makes the rule much more clear when you just know that if it’s red you should just stop and if it’s green you should you can just pass. You don’t have to think about it too much and I think it does save a lot of troubles in the road. Because for example with right turn with uh left turns, when I’m turning left on green and and there are cars coming in front of me, a lot of times. have to stop in the middle of the road to be able to pass when the light’s when when the the cars in the lane in front of me stop and then I could pass. But then sometimes you you really waiting until your light gets red and only then you could pass, but that’s what everyone do and I think it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Like I guess it would be better if they’ll just if their time with a green light, which is just for turning left and all the cars that want to turn left with just be able to pass. And sometimes you know, sometimes it happens that you wait a lot and only one car can turn left because it’s only enough time for one car. So if the if it’s more regulated with the green light, it will just allow as many cars as the green light allows to to turn.
BHAVNEET: That’s really interesting that you pointed that out because it would also, especially here in the U.S. make it easier when you go between states. Because some states are have laws where you can’t turn right on red and some states are like, yeah, you can turn right on red. It would definitely get rid of that.
RINAT: Yeah. Yeah, It would it would definitely be useful. And also, you know, sometimes also with that turning right on red, people that come from states where you can’t turn right on red sometimes just stop at the red light and don’t turn. And it happens to me a lot that I just stop and I forget that I am allowed to take the turn.
TARANJIT: Yeah. And then other drivers get mad because you’re not going.
RINAT: Yeah. Here they’ll they’ll usually not either they’ll wait and then honk. MISSING???
TARANJIT: Do you have any final thoughts or any tips that you would like to give drivers?
RINAT: A tip is just be more kind on the roads and don’t worry about time. You’ll get there. You’ll get where you want to be. So don’t be too much in a hurry. Just be more kind . It will make you more relaxed and it will benefit you. And also if you’re sitting in a traffic jam, it wouldn’t matter if you’ll get mad or not, you’ll still be sitting in traffic jams. So just be patient and wait until it’s over. And listen to the music or something or the radio in the meantime and just be relaxed.
TARANJIT: Yeah. I think that is something a lot of people need to hear.
RINAT: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Where can listeners find you if they want to check out your show?
RINAT: I’m at That’s the Ticket. It’s a travel podcast with Vanessa, which is my co-host and you can find me on all the podcast apps just look for a That’s the Ticket. You could also find me at That’s the Ticket in Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
BHAVNEET: Thank you so much Rinat for coming on. We had a blast hearing about all your experiences across multiple different countries.
RINAT: Yeah. I really enjoyed the show and thank you for having me on your show.
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TARANJIT: Could you imagine going to a different country and then your driver just stopping be like wait, wait wait. I’m going to catch dinner dinner real quick.
BHAVNEET: But he didn’t say that. So at first they were like, aw. That’s so sweet. Oh my God.
TARANJIT: Yeah, he was just like slowing down. And they were like, aww. He’s slowing down for the duck. Oh, no, he’s not.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Then they’re like, this is dinner.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know if I want it. Thank you. But then when she was also talking about driving in Israel versus North America. It’s like Israel driving sounded a lot like India driving.
TARANJIT: Doesn’t a lot of other countries out, you know like sound like…
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Pretty much.
TARANJIT: We’re always like, yep. That’s how India was.
BHAVNEET: But that’s what we can compare it to. So I feel like they would also honk at pedestrians. Be like, no no. Move out of my way.
TARANJIT: Oh, yeah, cuz it’s like honk and flashing. It’s like no no. I go first. Like get out of my way. You don’t go first. I go first. So I feel like that’s what it sounds like it was an Israel where the drivers are like, no I go first. You wait. As opposed to here where it’s like pedestrians have the right away.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, but also so her one law that she would like is having so this one I completely agree with is having turn signals. A lot of intersections don’t always have like left turn signals. So that you’re like I totally get the whole sitting in the middle of the intersection and then waiting for the light. And then it’s like a lot of people don’t and then you waste a light And it’s like, just sit in the middle. Then when it turns red, you have to go.
TARANJIT: Yeah, exactly. So I agree with that law. But her wanting to make just the traffic light laws simple as green means go and read me stop. Like none of this you can turn on red if it’s okay. I like having that law.
BHAVNEET: I like being able to turn on red turn right on red, but I do understand where she’s coming from because some states you’re not allowed to. And other states you are. And we had this discussion in a previous episode where they should have like some place where you can just be like Oh, I’m going to so-and-so state. What is there top laws that I need to know? Like can I turn on red?
TARANJIT: Wouldn’t it just make it simpler. If everyone just had signs. You know.
BHAVNEET: One sign. Welcome to New Jersey. Don’t go in the left lane.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Or yeah. That would be so funny on the welcome. I was just thinking like all the traffic intersections should have signs. Like…
BHAVNEET: Oh.
TARANJIT: But your no that would be perfect. Like as soon as you enter you see the welcome it’s like, oh welcome. But don’t do this.
BHAVNEET: You have the pretty sign that they always have. Like, oh. Welcome to or New Jersey welcomes you. And then right next to it in red, do not go in the left lane, unless you’re passing.
TARANJIT: Yeah. That actually is a good idea. That should be the thing. Where it’s like…
BHAVNEET: But then like people who are like driving…
TARANJIT: Where it’s like, you don’t turn on red here.
BHAVNEET: Just be like we don’t do that. That is not accepted. Ok.
TARANJIT: We don’t drive in the left lane unless passing. It’s not like don’t do it. It’s just like we don’t do that here.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. No. Okay. If people are driving like on the highway really fast and it’s like, oh. NewJersey. Will people really be slowing down to read the sign? Unless they had it incremented like right when you enter to be like we don’t do that here. Stay in the right lane. Like I’m watching you. Like every mo like mile you have another like rule or law for that state.
TARANJIT: Oh yeah. Like all the laws gradually. They’re introducing all the laws to you as you’re driving into the state further and further.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: That would be hilarious.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Be like a little bit. Hey, it could work. Because I would be like, oh. I didn’t know that. Get in the right lane. Get in the right lane. Oh, I can’t turn on red. Okay. Thank you. They should have signs at increments like maybe not at every mile, but like incremented as you right when you enter. So that you can be reading these laws and be like, oh. Okay. Good to know. Good to know. I can’t do this here. I can’t do this here.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Exactly. That is that’s such a good idea. I wish they would do that. I think…
BHAVNEET: Thank you. I would like the credit. Thank you.
TARANJIT: I would love that. Like the welcome signs are the perfect place to put it here. Because you’re always like, oh. Now I’m in New Jersey and then I don’t know why we picked New Jersey.
BHAVNEET: Because of the one law I could think of.
TARANJIT: And then you can be like, oh don’t do that.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. But yes, I would like to be credited. Thank you very much. On that note, somebody please implement those signs and…
TARANJIT: Give you credit. They have to…
BHAVNEET: I was going to say that you.
TARANJIT: Imagine if it said your name on every sign.
BHAVNEET: I was about to say that, but then I’m like, maybe not.
TARANJIT: This new law, Bhavneet started it.
BHAVNEET: No. No. Be like, welcome to New Jersey. Stay in the right lane. These signs are the idea of Bhavneet.
TARANJIT: The host of Drive With Us Podcast.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Go check it out. Well we hope you enjoyed listening to Rinat’s stories and experiences of driving Israel and Bolivia and North America. All the places. And if you or anyone, you know, has any crazy or interesting driving stories and would like to come on as a guest. Fill out the interest form on our website at drivewithuspodcast.com.
TARANJIT: And stay tuned until the end for a sneak peek of next week’s episode where were joined by Jules and Christine who shared driving in Australia versus the U.S, how they rode with farm animals in Colombia, and their crazy adventures in their converted van. Thanks for driving with us!
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JULES: For road rage in Australia, I guess, it’s not really that big of a deal because people will sort of just honk and yell. It’s not really that big of a deal. But you don’t really have to think about people having guns or doing something crazy like that. And we were driving at night, visiting friends in LA, and this person was driving really little stupid and cut in front of us. I was like, ah. Screw this guy and I like honked him. And then he’s like, errr. Slammed on the brakes and kind of reversed a bit and we stopped. And they stopped the car and the guy got out of his car and started walking towards us.