Hao Li's Secret To Helping Hundreds Of Immigrants Pass Their Driving Test? Fishing

San Francisco CA

17 November, 2021

6:35 PM

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By Yujie Zhou, Mission Local November 17, 2021 "If you don't pass your driving exam, I won't be in the mood to fish!" That was how San Francisco driving instructor Hao Li signed a post he sent out on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu to attract new students for his Jin Pai ("Gold Medal") Driving School. The visuals: a photo of himself standing near his car emblazoned with Student Driver and holding a two-foot rockfish. The fish is a testament to how Li has managed to teach more than 1,000 immigrant students to drive. When he first started six years ago, his students' mistakes unnerved him: stop signs – rare in China – meant his students either ignored them or stopped too sharply. Other times, Chinese drivers trained to be mindful of cyclists, would slow at intersections and end up blocking traffic. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.