As I Xi It v2.3 » breakdowns http://xiyuonline.com/blog2 More on the everyday adventures of Xi Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:03:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://xiyuonline.com/blog2 http://xiyuonline.com/blog2/wp-content/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/icons/favicon-xi2.ico As I Xi It v2.3 Breakdowns http://xiyuonline.com/blog2/breakdowns/ http://xiyuonline.com/blog2/breakdowns/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:04:25 +0000 XiYu http://xiyuonline.com/blog2/?p=906 This weekend, we drove up the A40 and I noticed that there were quite a lot of people parked up on the hard shoulder suffering from vehicular problems. Since I’ve been learning to drive (finally, some say), I’ve been reading my driving books and realised how none of them actually follow the book. If you’re on the hard shoulder, you and all your passengers should get behind the barrier and onto the bank while waiting for help, but there were families just loitering behind the car. You don’t get behind the barrier just for fun, you do it because its safer than standing on the roadside where cars are whizzing past you at 70 mph. The hazard lights should also be switched on.

It seems odd that to pass ones driving test, you don’t actually have to learn how to drive on the motorway. In fact, learner drivers aren’t allowed on motorways.

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