Comments on: Butts out of car windows are worst driving manners in Japan

By: Oba Tarian

Oba Tarian — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:00:47 +0000

FYI: A cerent episode (#44) of the Japanofiles Podcast takes up the topic of driving a car in Japan.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-japanofiles-podcast/id331131569

By: сортировка справочник в 8.2 « Эхо блогосферы

сортировка справочник в 8.2 « Эхо блогосферы — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:30:17 +0000

[...] Ken YN пишет: Not keeping one’s distance from the car in front, 8.2%, 8.3%, 8.1%. Frequently honking the horn, 6.1%, 6.4%, 4.4%. Too early, too late indicator usage, 5.8%, 5.8%, 5.6%. Not leaving space, etc for other cars to change lanes, 5.4%, 5.3% … [...]

By: Steveｎ

Steveｎ — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:53:15 +0000

I’m surprised there were no questions about letting people pass you when you are a slow driver. People were absolutely terrible about doing that in California, but sometimes I wish people would let cars pass a little more often around here.

Another thing, after talking to a lot of Japanese on the subject, I’ve realized that braking on the toll roads is not a good thing. I guess it’s rude to brake too often (I’ve seen people literally riding their brakes in Caliornia though).

Also, when I came to Japan about 6 or 7 years ago, I noticed people using their emergency lights to indicate they were going to start parking… I’ve hardly seen that at all recently. I always thought that was a very curteous thing to do.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:13:00 +0000

4SQ: cracked me up – the Japanese don’t need any specific reason to be self-detrimental ‘Just let me be humble, dammit!’

I loved the title for this post. Maybe I’ve been back in America too long, but naturally I assumed that was human butts sticking out of windows. lol