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Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

In today's society, with continuous development of our country's economy, quality of life of our people is constantly improving. It follows that people's consumption level and ability to consume also improved significantly. As for current economic industry of my country, economic value created by tourism industry for country and society is very high.

In other words, more and more people want and start to travel.

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

There are many tourist destinations to choose from when traveling abroad, and there are many modes of transportation that can be used to travel abroad. Generally speaking, people will travel by airplane, high-speed rail, train, or car. Of course, high-speed rail and airplane are most preferred among them, and most people have abandoned car.

Besides, there is another way - traveling by car, we also call it self-driving. If you are driving to a place that is a little closer, you can drive yourself; if you are driving to a location further away, you usually prefer to fly to local province and city and then rent a car locally. Arrange yourself a car tour.

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

1. Nowadays, people in our country very often travel on autopilot. What are benefits of self-propelled travel?

1. Traveling by car can save travel costs and reduce overall economic cost of travel.

2, self-guided travel is relatively free, you can control your time and plan your itinerary.

3. Traveling alone can be more convenient. If you get tired while driving, just stop and rest in car at any time.

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

Secondly, let's hear about "pain points" of a young man from Hunan who traveled by car?

One young man from Hunan province spoke on Internet about various "pressure points" he encountered during his road trip, that is, various "pitfalls" that he stepped on. What will we see together? Have you ever experienced this?

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

1, Dali Erhai Lake Self-Guided Tour Due to Wrong Navigation Tips, Illegal Driving Leading to Points and Fines

For first time young man said that he once traveled with Dali. Arriving in Dali, he rented a car from the local area for convenience of himself and his friends to freely plan route, and drove around Erhai Lake himself. During solo trip, he followed navigation prompts.

However, at turn, navigation reminded him to turn right. When he went to right, he saw a curb on ground, and it was forbidden to go to right. Only then did he realize that he was driving illegally. Finally, when he arrived at Erhai Lake, he received a SMS notification of deducted points and a fine. Therefore, sometimes navigation can be completely inaccurate.

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

2, Tibet self-guided tour due to misreading road signs and driving in wrong lane, resulting in points deducted and fines

The second time young man said that he also traveled to Tibet by car. I originally drove alone, to save money. However, while driving, he clearly followed traffic signs.

However, less than half an hour after he made a U-turn along one of roadsides, he received a text message again about deduction of 3 points and a fine of 200 yuan. Only then did he realize that curb was wrong. So, in order not to deduct points for himself, he used his friend's account to redeem points and gave friend 1,500 yuan, which was more expensive than flying to Tibet.

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

3, solo trip to Lijiang, Yunnan, because I accidentally stepped on gas pedal and trip was speeding, resulting in deduction of points and fines

For third time, young man said that when he was driving in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, he was driving on a three-lane road, each with a speed limit of 100 km / hour, 80 km / h and 60 km / h. In order to get to his destination faster, he chose a lane with a speed of 100 km/h.

In end, he still received information about penalty points and fines. Later, according to locals, speed limit for vehicles is here, and landmarks are only for vehicles with local numbers. There were other stricter requirements for cars with license plates from other locations.

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

3. Generally speaking, when you travel by car to remote places, which places need special attention? Summing up, following points should be noted.

1, didn't follow traffic signs to drive.

2, The same road has different license plate speed limits in different areas so you need to know this ahead of time.

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

3. While driving through a sparsely populated field, it's easy to take this lightly or risk it by causing speeding.

4. On some roads, speed measurement is unmeasurable and navigation doesn't have right hints. You need to know in advance where interval speed measurement will be on way.

Painful self-tour lesson: fine is more expensive than renting a car! Be careful with these violations

Author's Note: Traveling by car is a really good way to travel around some of vast, less populated and remote areas like Tibet. Self-guided tour allows tourists to freely enjoy various beautiful scenery while traveling anytime and anywhere. However, judging by "pains" and "holes" that above-mentioned brother's self-guided tour from Hunan experienced, it can also give us more experience. If we also want to travel by car, we need to prepare appropriate travel strategies. in advance so as not to spend unnecessary money and create unnecessary problems on self-driving tour.