Self driving in Perth, Australia is not too difficult. Their cars are right hand drive with cars driven on the left lane, same as per Malaysia and Singapore. All you need is a valid driving license and you could drive in Australia. No need to apply for an international driving license (international drivers licence). Being in an unfamiliar place you will need a driver and a navigator to move around effortlessly. If the driver also has to navigate, then the best course of action would be to rent a car with GPS unit. It would of course mean additional rental amount. The first time driving in Perth was of course a total blur being completely unfamiliar. With Catherine around we just followed her car to an Italian restaurant for dinner somewhere in Northbridge.

While driving, cars must always give priority to pedestrians which where unlike Malaysia where drivers were like Mr Hyde and pedestrians have to be wary about crossing the road lest they be knocked down. Speed limit in Perth was 50 kilometres per hour unless otherwise signposted. Upper freeway speed limit was 100kph, while upper limit in country areas was 110kph. In some places, speed cameras were used to enforce speed limits. I saw some signpost between Perth and Fremantle where speed cameras were used and the speed limit was 60kph.

Difficult to understand the parking signboards . Their system was different from ours, they use a number to indicate how long you could park such as 1/2 P would meant you could only park for half an hour while 1P, 2P, 3P etc indicates 1 hour, 2 hours and 3 hours respectively. A ticket machine will dispense automatically the limit as per indicated on the signboard. A sign board with a S with a red slash inside a red circle indicates a no stopping zone. Public parking zones were cheaper than parking at private parking areas such as CPP or Wilson parking. However public parking zones has a time limit as per indicated on the signage which meant you have to get back to your car to get a new set of tickets or drive the car away. Not very convenient if you plan to hang around for a while in that place.