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Observations in Germany

 

Instead the roads were just large sidewalks used to get from store to store. Everyone parked their vehicles at the end of a street that leaded onto a walking only "road" and then would do all their shopping by foot, no driving to each individual store. .
             My Comparison of German Transportation to Canadian Transportation.
             I noticed at least four fairly large differences between German transportation and Canadian transportation. The first difference I picked up on was the difference in the appearances of vehicles, for starters I found that the vehicles in Germany seemed to be more compact. Also, not once in Germany did I see a vehicle that had a tiny bit of rust, a small dent or even much of a scratch, to be honest I don't even think I saw many dirty vehicles but that may have had to do with the fact that it rained almost every day we were there. This allowed for free car washes. When I asked my cousin Mark about the immaculate condition of the cars, he told me that because of the Autobond (a highway that runs through Germany that doesn't have a speed limit). Since most vehicles will be driven on the Autobond they have much stricter rules on the condition of your vehicles. While here seeing a vehicle with a dented fender is common, in Germany it is very uncommon. .
             Another major difference that I noticed was the driving laws they have. While I tried to get a few people to explain some of these laws to me it didn't really work. Driving in Germany seems to be a lot more complicated then here, amazingly there are even more rules to follow, but as a few people told me "Germans are all about rules." Not only did there seem to be a lot of driving laws but they also all seemed to be very confusing compared to our basic, red means stop, green means go rules. Many streets in the cities of Germany do not have traffic lights, stop signs or even yield signs. There are just laws that everyone knows, and follows and these seem to replace our stop signs.


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