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These two are absolute thugs. They have not dared to report on india, bangladesh and pakistan traffic even mongolia and philipines.
It is the same in all poor/developing countries. I have experienced this in the Philippines. This shows when road rules are not enforced and bad driving is not stopped by police it just keeps going. This video showed Road rules are a suggestion and you need 3 passengers to watch out every window for you
is it worse that driving in indias big citys?
I took the "modi" (motorbike taxi) once in China, in 2012. Can't believe we survived. Never did it again. Kinda fun though
The situation of the Uyghurs in China in some aspects reminds me of the Palestinians in Israel, albeit with major differences imo.
I would ride my motorcycle in Vancouver British Columbia, and get almost forced into oncoming traffic by amazingly expensive cars. You'd often see those cars in the news eventually, high centered, after trying to drive down stairs.
I had a mo-ped while i was in China. It baffled me how other drivers consistently broke traffic laws and ignored what's considered driver safety here in the west.
I even got into a vehicular accident once. I was driving to work on a rainy morning and saw a car getting close to the 2-wheel lane. They weren't using their blinker so I kept my speed while keeping an eye on this person. Then this person made a right turn and I thought nothing of it since I had enough space to hit the brakes. Then my brakes got waterlogged from the rain and I slid on the pavement. Luckily someone behind me helped me and my bike up. I made it across the street before the shock hit me and I gagged for a few minutes. I made it to work after that and had to be taken to the hospital to disinfect my injuries.
That’s exactly like it, but, I have to add somethings. Driving on the phone, stopping suddenly looking on gps, honking your horn, and buses. We drove on the May Day holiday. We went from harbin to taiyuan and back. We drove down before the holiday and back to harbin on the holiday and holy cow. On the way back so many bad drivers, speed limits? Nah Chinese don’t need them. They either speed or go so slow below the limit it’s crazy, reversing on the main highways to get to their off ramps, tailgating at 130 kilometres an hour.
Example we had. We got stuck on the highway between Beijing and Tianjin. We had to wait for 5 hours on the highway. Cars were backed up as far as the eye can see. I thought it was because maybe an off-ramp to a small village cause it because people here cannot merge or anything. Turns out I was partially right. Once we started moving again we passed 47 cars that had been damaged with what looked like driving to close and tailgating. Smashed in front and rears. And two big buses who had decided to take the off-ramp from the furthest lane and cut across traffic and we’ll yeah did not go so well. They blocked all the lanes and the police were only local traffic police from the closest village and yeah. Well I e spent time having a barbecue on the road with some nice people from Hainan.
Gotta love that traffic
doggy dog
This is no different than NYC drivers
HELL YEAH! I'm from Miami and I WOULD THRIVE on the streets of China…on the bed of my truck is written on the left side ⬅️FAST LANE and on the right side ➡️SLOW LANE and below that in the middle GET IN YOUR LANE
Cops love it and it's gotten me out if 2 tickets plus I've had cops pull up next to me and give me the 👍
Being in China as a death wish.
Holy crap and I thought the Philippines was bad…
Actually traffic in Southern Asia including Taiwan is the same… sucking.
We don’t have patience or always have road rage.
But I think Chinese drivers might be more brutal than Taiwan.
A BIT LIKE in Italy.
How do you blind a Chinese put a Windscren in front of him 😈
Come to Melbourne (or Sydney), you'll see the same thing 🤭🤭 As long as western companies continue to invest and trade with China, the Uyghur genocide goes unpunished.
Chinese consider rules and laws as suggestions to be generally kind of followed but ignored when they want.
People who say "Doggy dog" instead of "dog eat dog."
Kind of like NYC?
Asians are just bad drivers period. Especially in the west where you notice these bad drivers, you look and sure enough an Asian driver.
Doesn't this happen every day in LA？ Plus flying bullets on highway.
they are not bad skilled, they are bad as in malicious driving. I asked my chinese cousin why not use blinker to let other ppl know you are planning to cut in, he said "if I have the time to use the blinker I could have use the time to cut in" I was like, it is not about you, it is about letting other know what you are doing to do. he be like "if other know I am planning to cut in, they will speed up and not let me, this is why nobody use blinker because they ne3ed the surprise to force other to let them cut in"
driving in china is like battle royale. there is not rules
That's what is like driving in Richmond Canada 🤦♂️
Ancient proverb from the Hundred Acre Wood: If you disable a person you will pay them for life, if you kill that person you will walk away free.
Shanghai drivers have gotten far more calm over the years. You still see some shit, but not nearly this bad.
The scooter riders on the other hand still seem to have no care for their own survival.
That’s how people drive in California
I've driven 16000km so far in China it is very dangerous. I'm just used to it I guess.
Crossing the road in China is a death wish
This time is normal. No blinker a very common phenomenon. There’s no need to use blinker if have no or only a few cars that’s far from you. 99% of the case, they do use blinkers.
I guess that is where all the crazy asian lady drivers comes from
You see kids? This China manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party is what happens when the government corrupt and throw out proper homeworks and textbooks.
They need to use blinker fluid.
India is even more insane but must "nicer" to each other?
China is definitely close in 2nd place 🙂
Funny isn't it 718 people die a day in China from road accidents and 1500 a year die in Australia an 19,000 from smoking and 450,000 die from smoking in the USA and 8000 from guns in the USA, 200 from guns in Australia and yet that's sorta comparable to US, Australia, china based on pop.. its a little under and a little over.. but similar.. Id hate to think how many die from smoking each year in China LOL they have no laws to curb/slow it down or prevent it..
it's the same thing in India, Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladesh, if you drive safely, play by the rules, you'll never get anywhere because nobody else follows the rules, everyone's gonna cut you off, squeeze in your lane etc.
yeah that's why they have 1.4 billion people
1:37 … the freakin lane splits … there's another line that starts in the middle of the lane he's in.
My family were visiting me in China and we went to Sichuan for a holiday. After coming out of the airport in a taxi we were faced with a 3 lane road that was bumper to bumper for the entire length of the half mile long road. The oncoming three lanes were clear. The taxi driver decided to cross into the oncoming lanes and GUN IT the wrong way down the road. Of course, at that point the lights changed and the oncoming traffic began and we found ourselves flying the wrong way down the road toward an oncoming bus, only to duck into the 'right' side of the road mere seconds before we would have hit the bus. Welcome to China, says I.
Motorways in China. Not keeping in the near side lane when not overtaking, hogging the middle lane, driving slow in the offside lane etc
Tbh, it's basically the same in Malaysia. Nobody driving following the rules.
Kinda 3rd world style of road driving.
I personally never visited china, but my buddy lived there for 8 years. He said he thinks there is 2 main factor in this behavior: Simply there is no "position of trust" whatsoever meaning people expect everybody to break the tarffic rules so they do it themselves. Its basically a self fulfilling prophecy.
The second is more cultural, giving a right of way or polite is a sign of weakness. Serpentza had a video where he told about a date he had where the girl wanted to impress him, so she started acting very rude and unreasonable toward the restaurant staff. Basically the same mentality is happening on the road in almost every scenario. People feel like to show power they have to opress others.
To be fair, driving in any Asian country is horrific except Japan. It all comes down to courtesy. Western and Japanese society are courteous (in general). China, India, Korea, Indonesia etc don't even think about giving way.