Yeah - the thing I hate about here is trying to find actual... written proof for most anything.
For example, bicycle laws. There are many different things which people will say what you are allowed to do, must do, etc. It took me months of looking and asking different places to finally get a concrete list of what you can or cannot do on a bicycle. So I finally found something that indicates while you are on a bicycle, if you are on the road, you should drive as cars do. I specifically printed out the Japanese and spoke with a policeman at a local police box. The ironic thing is, when I drive like that, people I know always say I'm driving dangerously. Whatever. Yeah, if I were Japanese, I'd feel no worries about doing what the Japanese do (essentially, whatever they want, and as long as it doesn't cause an accident, there are no problems), but since my future visa renewals, and even if I get a PR visa, are reliant on me having caused no issues, I can never do this stuff. Frustrates me to no end.
So I really want to find something that validates what my father-in-law says before I try learning outside of a driving school. Bah. Would have just gotten my license in Canada, but I only found out I was moving here with little notice, and my area of Canada has a 5 year waiting period through different stages while your license goes from probational to another probational and then 5 years later with no tickets or anything, ta-da, you're a driver.
