OK thanks!
But you know I as most Americans drive an automatic!
I never drove a stick-shift (manual)!
So can I learn the 'code de la route' myself on the internet, then have my bf teach me to drive a car with the stick shift, then what do I do about getting a double boxed car? Can I rent it will it be cheaper than going through a Auto ecole?
thankss!!
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Originally Posted by yeehoo
I don't think it's matter of logic - as in some states have driving laws similar to those of France. I imagine it is more a question of which states have bothered to try to have a reciprocity agreement. Why would a state in the u.s. go around the world and get reciprocity agreements. If we had a national driver's license in the u.s. then our diplomats in france would have tried to get a reciprocity agreement and we'd have one. But states don't have foreign diplomats or embassies and so on.
Anyway it's not that easy to pass the driving test. You'll have to go to a school and it'll take a couple of months at least before you get to where you can pass the written exam. The rules here are so different, not just priorité ŕ droite but thousands of things (and also you have to know how to tell when an intersection is priorité ŕ droite or not), i think we americans really should go to a school and learn the rules here.
As for cost it's not that bad. I think i paid about 300 euros for the driving school - all the class time you needed to get to where you can pass the written, and then a few driving lessons to learn how to pass that part. Maybe another hundred or so for the test and license. It took me about 2-3 months (i work full time) to get to where i could pass the written test. Then you wait awhile for the test. Then it's another month before you can take a driving test.
I was really reluctant to go to a school and all but in the end i am glad i did - i was really ignorant. I have a friend here who's american and has been here 14 years - driving all the while - who is just now studying for her driver's license. She's been stopped many times by cops and always managed to talk her way out of any trouble. I guess mostly they're not too up on the rules for international drivers. Sometimes she'd pretend to be new here and that she didn't speak french and then her kids would pipe up from the back seat, speaking in french, "Maman, blah blah ...". Ha ha.
Not sure how she got the insurance company to go along with her not having a valid license all those years.
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