Driving instructor Jessica Griebel from Haar explains: about tricky situations in the car and the trickiest spots in the district.
Here, learner drivers rattle through.
County – The sign on Putzbrunner Strasse in Grasbrunn is triangular, warning red, and has a large X on it.
Below: "50 m".
Do you know what the red and white warning sign means?
No?
This is also the case for many students of driving instructor Jessica Griebel.
"They often remain at a loss in front of the sign," says Griebel.
Do they have to give way now or do they have priority?
Or are you just not allowed to park here?
More on resolution later.
Because there are many hot spots like here in Grasbrunn in the district.
The driving instructor from Haar knows them all.
500 young learner drivers a year
Griebel, 34, 14 years of road experience as a teacher, owner of seven driving schools, took over the business from her father.
Together with her brother and other teachers, she teaches around 500 young adults how to drive every year;
during the driver's license test, some still rattle through.
For example, there is the crossing at the town hall in Putzbrunn, on the federal highway 471. And it has it all.
Because the elementary school is nearby, only 30 kilometers per hour are allowed here, drivers driving straight ahead into Rathausstrasse have to watch out for the kinked right-of-way, and the double traffic lights are also confusing.
Pedestrians are often on the move.
"Many students are overwhelmed here," says Griebel.
Then mistakes happen: the 30 sign is quickly overlooked.
In a driver's license test, driving at excessive speed would mean: failed!
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The intersection at the town hall in Putzbrunn, on the federal road 471. If you want to drive straight ahead, you have to get into the left lane - and pay attention to the kinked right-of-way and the traffic lights.
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Don't stress, the teacher warns
So that it doesn't come to that, the driving instructor advises her students to remain as calm as possible, not to stress, the teacher warns.
It's not that easy when you consider what driving learners and instructors experience: honking drivers, cursing cyclists, nervous pedestrians.
"The mood on the road is becoming increasingly aggressive because there are more and more road users." Griebel has seen it all.
But it rarely gets really hot.
Once she was driving down a country road with a student.
The learner driver was supposed to turn right at an intersection, she braked harder and harder until she came to a standstill.
In the side mirror, Griebel saw a truck approaching at 70 km/h.
The driver just steered his colossus into the oncoming lane.
“We would have been flat otherwise,” she says.
"It's the only situation where a driving instructor can't do anything anymore if a student suddenly brakes hard." It is important, says Griebel, that students continue quickly after such shock situations: "It's like horseback riding: After an accident you have to immediately back on.”
The final stop is when students run a red traffic light
But the final end is when students run a red light during an exam.
Then it's straight back to the driving school.
"Because of red light violations, many driver's licenses are lying on the street." A nasty traffic light lurks in Haar, for example, on Leibstrasse.
A smaller traffic light is hidden around 50 meters before the actual traffic light.
It also switches to red if pedestrians want to cross the road ahead.
The small light signal is easily overlooked, especially when parked vans block the view.
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A nasty traffic light is lurking in Haar on Leibstrasse.
There is a smaller traffic light about 50 meters before the actual traffic light.
© Max Wochinger
Record: 150 extra hours
Tomorrow's drivers must be prepared for such dangers, and this requires training.
Sometimes less, sometimes more: the driving school's record holder is a young woman who took 150 extra hours.
Her students usually need 25 driving lessons plus the prescribed twelve special trips, says Griebel.
She continues to have her students drive to Putzbrunner Strasse in Grasbrunn, the street with the mysterious traffic sign.
It is the so-called danger sign 102: It means that at the next crossing or junction (here in 50 meters) "right before left" applies.
So if a car comes from the right, it has the right of way.
It's all a matter of practice, says driving instructor Jessica Griebel.
"Every student can pass the driver's license test."
