Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "American Reacts to Why Driving in Europe is BETTER than America" video.

  1. Eastern Europe here. I'm not an aggressive driver. Mostly. I may be "part time aggressive driver" - taking off at green traffic light, but then stopping acceleration as the speed limit is reached. First got my licence over 20 years ago, not because I needed really, but because I was killing time after my first girlfriend finally got through my daydreaming and explained, that it was just a short romance, not a life ling relationship I imagined, thus I looked for ways to spend my evenings in some company of people, instead of crying my eyes out while alone at home, so I went to driving school and French lessons. Anyway, after that I got to drive only occasionally, since I did not have my own car - my step-fathers old BMW 528i, another BMW 316 and Opel Meriva my workplace had (also drove Škoda and AUDI 80 for work a couple of times). Then spent 8 recent years driving really old VW Golf, 2 litre GTI engine, manual transmission, quite enjoyed it. And now for the first time in my life had to get myself a car with automatic transmission, because now I'm slightly handicapped, thus driving manual may get hard sometimes. At first automatic seemed much more boring, but after a week of driving it, I actually like enjoy that, besides on AUDI it has "sport" mode too and "TipTronic" option, if one wishes to switch gears oneself (haven't tried it yet and I guess not going to, unless it's needed on icy road or something). Getting driving licence back in 1999 in Latvia was neither hard nor insanely expensive. Well, it WAS expensive for me - around 120-160 lats (which is like 240-320 US dollars), maybe 180 (360 USD) with some additional driving lessons, while I earned 170 (340 USD) per month back then. Thus getting licence was expensive, but did not made me broke. And there were MUCH fewer cars, since then their numbers have at least doubled, I guess that makes learning and driving harder fro new drivers.
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