Side notes on driver's license renewal

#LearnFromThisExperience

This license renewal was
my first 2-hour training session for people with two or more traffic violations✎

It was long...
It was a very long 2 hours, but🥹
I learned a lot📖

Current ranking of common traffic violations

1st place: Ignoring stop signs
(This is the violation I committed💦)

2nd place: Speeding

3rd place: Illegal parking

Apparently, that's the order🤔

Regarding the 1st place violation of ignoring stop signs,
I sometimes hear part-time workers at my job say they've done it too.

When there's no one around
and the visibility is good, you just tend to...😥
That carelessness is the problem, isn't it?💦
By the way, I heard you can get caught even if you stop for 1 or 2 seconds😱
I guess you have to stop for about 5 seconds... right?😥

During the training,

"There are people in this world who commit violations but are lucky enough not to get caught. However, there are also people like you who do get caught. Do you understand the difference? Why is it that you end up getting caught..."

"People who are lucky enough not to get caught rarely commit traffic violations. For people like you who do get caught, it means you commit violations while driving quite frequently. Between someone who commits a violation once a year and someone who commits one ten times a year, the person who does it ten times has a higher probability of getting caught."

That's what I was told 🥹

If you don't commit any violations for one year after your last one,
the violation is treated as if it never happened... in other words, your points are wiped clean and they stop accumulating.

So, since I am currently in a clean state,
if I don't commit any violations for the next three years, my next license renewal will be for good drivers instead of a violation course.

"Everyone, please do your best to qualify for the good driver course! 😊"

That was what they said 🥹

I really want to escape from these violation courses for good 🥹

I think I've been taking violation courses for about 10 years now 😅

When my eldest daughter was in high school,
I went to watch her high school sports festival.
On the way home,

"Mom, hurry up and send me the photos you took!"

I got a LINE message from my eldest daughter,
and I just... looked at my phone 😅


Then, suddenly, a police car siren started blaring from behind me 😱
A hidden police car had been chasing me 😅

It was 3 points, I think?...
And a 7,000 yen fine 💦


But apparently, if you look at your phone now, the fine is 18,000 yen 😱😱😱
I guess there are just too many people
who end up looking at their phones 😥
18,000 yen would make me cry 😭

And then,
the thing they are currently focusing on enforcing the most is

This,
I just saw it on the news the other day 📺️

I know, of course, that pedestrians have priority at crosswalks, but...
apparently, you even have to give priority to pedestrians who haven't reached the crosswalk yet but are walking toward it 😳

I was shocked to see a news report about a driver who was caught by the police for driving through a crosswalk while ignoring a person who was just about to reach it.😱

The driver who was caught said,
"They hadn't reached the crosswalk yet, and it would be faster if I just drove through."

I find myself thinking that way too.😥
It requires a lot of patience for impatient people like us.😅

In yesterday's training session, they said
that from about 5 meters before the crosswalk, you should stop and wait for pedestrians to reach it.😳

Sometimes, even when I stop and gesture from inside the car saying, "Go ahead✋️"

"It's okay, you go first✋️"

There are pedestrians who respond like that, aren't there?

I'm sure some people dislike the feeling of having to rush across a crosswalk while a car is waiting for them.

On the other hand,
there are also pedestrians who walk slowly at their own pace without even looking at the cars, as if to say the road belongs to them.

It's a difficult situation, isn't it?😫

Recently, the number of people getting caught for "failure to stop for pedestrians at crosswalks"
has increased tremendously.

Well, that makes sense.😥
Waiting for someone who isn't even at the crosswalk yet but is walking toward it is a rare case, I suppose...

It's even harder to do
when you don't have the peace of mind or the time to spare.💦

Aiming for the 30-minute superior driver course
three years from now💪

I wanted to write down my determination to do my best😅

so I posted this✎

I don't drink and drive, but
drunk driving doesn't seem to go away either💦
We see sad news about it, don't we😞

If you drink until midnight
and drive at 5 or 6 the next morning, the alcohol is still in your system and you'll be driving under the influence😳