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I was under the impression that most of the requirements only applied to registering a car in that State not operating the vehicle?? So, for example, NY requir

I was under the impression that most of the requirements only applied to registering a car in that State not operating the vehicle?? So, for example, NY requires yearly safety inspections and you'll get a ticket if your inspection lapsed. But you don't have to get a safety inspection to drive in NY if your car is registered in a state that doesn't require safety inspections. I could be mostly off base on this one. Though some laws are so local sometimes it's impossible for an out of towner to know the local laws like going right on red is, as far as I know, illegal in NYC but legal... Everywhere else? How does someone from Texas supposed to know that?

loeg 10y ago
Right. And that fragmentation is probably a bad thing.
ghaff 10y ago
>Though some laws are so local sometimes it's impossible for an out of towner to know the local laws like going right on red is, as far as I know, illegal in NYC but legal... Everywhere else? How does someone from Texas supposed to know that? You've pretty much picked an outlier. And I might be inclined to argue that someone from Texas trying to drive in Manhattan for the first time has other problems :-) There are a few other things like whether you can pass on the right on an interstate and the aforementioned when headlights need to be on (though I often see this last point signed). But these are usually getting into corner cases and don't really affect how the average person has to approach driving.
- jcranmer 10y ago
  It should also be mentioned that many of the divergent cases tend to be bad ideas for safety reasons anyways (passing on the right, using your cell phone when driving, even right-turn-on-red--don't do that in pedestrian-heavy areas). Places with divergent laws make some effort to inform visitors of the divergence--you'll sometimes see electronic noticeboards saying that using your cell phone is illegal here, and sometimes permanent ones too (e.g, on entry into Virginia on interstates, you are immediately informed that radar detectors are illegal).

loeg 10y ago

Right. And that fragmentation is probably a bad thing.

ghaff 10y ago

>Though some laws are so local sometimes it's impossible for an out of towner to know the local laws like going right on red is, as far as I know, illegal in NYC but legal... Everywhere else? How does someone from Texas supposed to know that? You've pretty much picked an outlier. And I might be inclined to argue that someone from Texas trying to drive in Manhattan for the first time has other problems :-) There are a few other things like whether you can pass on the right on an interstate and the aforementioned when headlights need to be on (though I often see this last point signed). But these are usually getting into corner cases and don't really affect how the average person has to approach driving.

jcranmer 10y ago
It should also be mentioned that many of the divergent cases tend to be bad ideas for safety reasons anyways (passing on the right, using your cell phone when driving, even right-turn-on-red--don't do that in pedestrian-heavy areas). Places with divergent laws make some effort to inform visitors of the divergence--you'll sometimes see electronic noticeboards saying that using your cell phone is illegal here, and sometimes permanent ones too (e.g, on entry into Virginia on interstates, you are immediately informed that radar detectors are illegal).