Comments on: Where’d You Learn to Drive? http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/04/27/whered-you-learn-to-drive/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:46:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Greg Devine http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/04/27/whered-you-learn-to-drive/#comment-7183 Greg Devine Sun, 03 May 2009 12:52:42 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=831#comment-7183 I taught in Japan for a few years and I had a student who had inherited his family's pottery business just as the ceramic mine his family owned ran out of ceramic. So, he filled it in, paved the top of it, created a driving course and opened a driving school. The business went well until the birth rate started to dwindle and the dearth of teens started to negatively affect his business. Another interesting thing about driving in Japan - in the towns that weren't as heavily bombed as the big cities, the roads are still quite narrow yet people will drive large SUVs on them. In my wife's hometown I've had a few scares while driving and seeing a Hummer squeeze through a narrow gap between buildings. It's also interesting to see in these situations the right of way is observed, or not. Seems to be the biggest car gets to go first. I taught in Japan for a few years and I had a student who had inherited his family’s pottery business just as the ceramic mine his family owned ran out of ceramic. So, he filled it in, paved the top of it, created a driving course and opened a driving school.

The business went well until the birth rate started to dwindle and the dearth of teens started to negatively affect his business.

Another interesting thing about driving in Japan - in the towns that weren’t as heavily bombed as the big cities, the roads are still quite narrow yet people will drive large SUVs on them. In my wife’s hometown I’ve had a few scares while driving and seeing a Hummer squeeze through a narrow gap between buildings. It’s also interesting to see in these situations the right of way is observed, or not. Seems to be the biggest car gets to go first.

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