Driving a car in Perth is generally a rather slow activity. Many drivers drive gladly under the permitted speed limit. 60km/h in the city, sometimes are only 40km/h allowed. Some people think that this is rather nice thing, because it’s more restful, but this is probably a matter of opinion.

We are nearly used to the rather slow traffic here in Perth, but how some Australians manage to turn their cars around the corners still surprises us every day.

How-to-do guide for turning a vehicle around any corner in Perth, West Australia:
You approach the road you want to turn into, so you reduce the speed already 50 meters before the crossing. If you finally reach the actual road, you reduce the speed even more to approximately 10km/h. Then you imagine that you drive a big heavy truck instead of your normal family car and you turn as a truck would turn with an enormous radius, which means that you are currently on the opposite lane of the road. Thereby you scare the shit out of the driver in the other car who comes along this road, you scare yourself even more, because there is all of a sudden a car in front of you. Therefore you turn abruptly your steering wheel in order to find your way back to your own lane. Finally you take a deep breath, accelerate gently and drive to the next corner where you can try this nice maneuver again.

The way of approaching speed humps is similarly amazing. Speed humps are really nice and easy in Perth, well-rounded and not too high, in any case so that noone has to be afraid of hurting its spoilers. None the less even Jeep drivers lift their vehicles over the speed humps. That means that they slow down abruptly in front of the speed hump, roll slowly over it and then accelerate enormously so they have to slow down their cars again in front of the next speed hump.

How do you know that the driver in the car in front of you is an European driver?
He is not afraid of speed humps, he turns into roads with a normal speed and stays on his lane, he never drives 20km/h in a 40km/h zone.