>The headlight switch on that Skoda car was in the driver side door. In US, as far as I know, these switches are on or near the steering wheel. Otherwise, the car was very nice.

We don't have parking brakes here. They are called hand brakes.

When I first rented a U-haul truck, it was an automatic one (I guess they are all Fords), and I couldn't find the hand brake. I figured it was automatically tied with the gear shift, i.e. it would engage in neutral and disengage in any other. Well, wrong. A couple of miles later someone signaled me that my rear wheel is letting out the magic smoke... so I quickly looked around, and saw that hey there's a red light on the dashboard, and there's a prong sticking out of the floor, somewhere by the door, looking like the old Moskvich headlight flip switch, or the Citroën ID-19 brake pedal... so I pressed it and voila, the hand brake disengaged.