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I found an actual transcript, translated to English (and video with the original sound, instead of having it turned down):

00:01 Max: Do I have to put the seatbelt on? CameraMan: I would put it on
00:07 Max: Nice isn't it! 17years old, can't drive on the road but here in Moncaco you can!
00:15 Jos: Well Max, we're going to do a lap of Monaco. You're going to tell us how you're going to do it.
00:25 Jos:It's quite weird to get driving lessons from your son!
00:28 Jos:Are you going to keep the car in one piece?
00:30 Max: Yeah no problem
00:33 Jos: Jezus Max! ehhh Fuck!
00:40 Max: There is a bump here so you need to go around it.
00:42 Jos:It's not fun at all to drive along with him to be honest.
00:45 Max: Come of the brakes here, back on the throttle, as close as you can get to the wall.brake as late as you can.
00:53 Jos: Everything ok with Olav in the back? (dutch comentator)
00:58 Max: Try to get some curb here and get a good exit out of here.
01:06 Jos: This is were we enter the tunnel, how fast do you drive here with a F1 car? Max: At the end of the straight around 290kph.
01:16 Jos:Where do you brake? Max: at the 120m mark, but we're not going to do that in this car because I have to safe the brakes a little bit.
01:29 Jos: I don't like this at all!
01:34 Max: This is where you can safe a lot of time towards the chicane and that one is almost full throtle.
01:46 Jos: I'm so glad the lap is almost done! Oh jezus.
02:01 Max: Get a good exit onto the straight.
02:08 Jos: Ok just slow it down now, I'm done with this after one lap.
02:14 Max: What? It went alright didn't it? Jos: Yeah, it looked alright. Olav: HolyMoly!

None of them were the tiniest bit suspicious that someone with no driving experience showed up in that car?

"It's my brothers"

Yeah, right, like anyone in the world would lend that car to their sister for here first driving lesson....

If driving lessons with an IFV in an urban environment are a neccessity, it really is smart to do it abroad -- like this British FV510 in a German town.

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I was pretty sure this video was sifted already so I looked around and it turned out that I sifted it! hahahah (I should have tagged it better)

The only problem is my video is dead... oh well

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I disagree. It SHOULD be a PSA for defensive driving, but instead it's a scare tactic to try and convince people that driving 7km/h over the speed limit is killing the children of hard working folks.

This PSA puts the emphasis on the speeding as though it's the problem. The real defensive driving lessons people need to prevent such an accident have nothing to do with speed. Obviously the guy driving out in front of the oncoming car should never do that, and that's not a small mistake, that's a kill myself and everyone in the car with me mistake. Lastly, the more important point that lots of drivers could stand to learn is regardless of if you are speeding or not, watch the road ahead for cars that might cut you off, and if it looks like they are start slowing down. If I spot a guy coming in too fast on a stop sign ahead, or rolling up to it, I slow down even though I have right of way, just in case. 9 times out of 10, it turns out it didn't matter, but it has spared me an accident on more than 1 occasion where even a little below the speed limit, there was just no way I was gonna slow down.

And the 7km over IS a ridiculous line for the PSA to draw. Just compare the difference that extra speed makes to your stopping distance and time to the difference in judgment required of the guy pulling out. The guy pulling out is gonna misjudge the oncoming traffic arrival time and distance by more than a second or meter or two.

Today's driving lesson: When maneuvering in tight spaces, don't be afraid to turn the wheel all the way -- before you touch the gas pedal.

This is why you don't give driving lessons in a car without a second set of brake pedals on the passenger side.

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Jeesh women sure can't drive! She should take a few more driving lessons...

There were several chances to execute a PIT maneuver or at least ram the Skoda off the road. NOOB!

>> ^DerHasisttot:

>> ^Crosswords:
Um yeah, you know what makes me afraid to ride a bike in my city? Its not the idea of needing a helmet, its seeing the God awful drivers around my city. They have a hard time seeing me and not suddenly pulling into my lane when I'm driving a red 3k pound vehicle. I was in a near miss the other day when the car that had been driving next to me suddenly decided my lane was the one to be in. Our cars got so close I think a gnat that just happened to be between them got squished. So yeah no way in hell I'd ride a bike on the streets of this city. Even where they have bike lanes they've decided to measure about a foot away from the curb and paint a line down the normal street. So bikers have this tiny lane to stick too, and the people in cars, who already have a hard fucking time staying in their own lane, now have less room.
So yeah, I'd wager the rest of the world's cities that aren't so concerned about the danger needing a helmet might produce, and more about the danger of morons driving 2 ton boxes of steel and glass at 50 mph or more and their effect on you if the slam into you.

Are you from the US? If yes, I can understand why you wouldn't wanna ride a bicycle. On different occasions, different US friends of mine noticed independently that there are fewer car accidents in Europe/Germany. Then I researched a bit and found out that US driving tests are far easier than the german tests are; and the US tests are very possibly kept easy to have as many drivers on the roads as possible, influenced by the car and gas-industry.


I would have put it in a slightly different manner (more insults at the driverslicense"agency" what's it called -club) but that's exactly my point.
In Germany you fail the driving test (the actual driving test, not the theory beforehands) if you do one of these things once:
- miss of red light
- entering a one way from the wrong side
- missing a stop-sign
- error of priority in traffic
- ignoring any kind of prohibition sign
- not looking in all mirrors and over shoulder as you switch lines
- no blinking lights as you turn
- blinking lights as you dont turn
- no sign of caution if children, elderly or disabled people are around
- not enough distance to the car in front of you
- and a couple of more things
The test can take up to an hour of driving.
Oh yea the whole thing (driving lessons (theory and driving itself) and tests) costs around a thousand bucks.

If I would feel more save riding a bike here, I would close my eyes, stir with my feet and juggle chainsaws while I enter the AUTOBAHN.

Oh yes and to rejoin the topic: No helmet-campaign I heard of so far. No law against riding without one. Nearly all the children in the city wear one. As they get older they apparently grow out of them.