As a tourist, it might feel overwhelming to understand the rules of the road let alone anything else. Now one Brit revealed his three pet peeves when travelling to the US
It can be quite daunting visiting a new country with rules different to yours. When it comes to driving, you’ll find the majority of the world, including the US, most of Europe, China and Russia, drive on the right side of the road.
As for roads in the UK, it’s the law to drive on the left side. While us Brits are used to that practice here, it can sometimes feel a little bit confusing when travelling overseas, be it Europe or even the US. Now one man recently faced that headache when he jetted across the pond for three weeks, travelling through Colorado and Utah with “every type of road imaginable”.
Posting on Reddit, he recalled: “Just got back from a three-week trip where we drove through Colorado and Utah on every type of road imaginable and honestly found the driving culture incredibly stressful – even more so than Italy or central London.”
He outlined three habits that really threw him off, including the speed limit.
“Doing the speed limit made us total outliners,” he admitted. “We set cruise control and stuck to it, but were overtaken constantly, even by massive trucks. One lorry even flashed us for doing the limit in the slow lane.”
The man added: “Signalling to change lanes or merge, almost always made people speed up to block us. It felt oddly competitive, like no one wanted to give up ‘their’ bit of road.
“For example: even when we were just pulling out to overtake a slow lorry crawling uphill (with every intention of moving back in), someone would rush to close the gap. That same lorry would then go flying past us on the next downhill anyway haha.”
And finally, he claimed people don’t really give way as much as Brits would on the roads.
He explained: “People just didn’t let us in… at junctions, merges, anywhere. In the UK it’s normal to give way, or at least acknowledge when someone’s signalled and clearly trying to move. Over there, it felt hostile.
“We weren’t nervous drivers, just trying to follow the limits etc.
“Is this just normal? Or is it a regional thing? Genuinely curious – we have bad drivers in the UK too, but I wasn’t expecting it to feel so mean.”
The post garnered nearly 1,000 upvotes and plenty of comments as one wrote: “Welcome to America.” Another added: “Sounds like a typical drive in Anywhere, USA to me.”
A third posted: “I’ve travelled all over the US. It varies by region.”
