Driving in Taiwan is absolutely crazy!
- Thread starter laurence
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DIablofollower
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That was a good video, well made. Although over all the driving/traffic doesn\'t seem too bad. Wish I had a video of me driving our rental in Rome three years ago. That was crazy. 
Shawn R. L.
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Sand Rat
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I don\'t know - can\'t watch the videos here (damn filters) but something tells me that they\'ve got nothing on drag racing in 24 passenger Nissan Busses towing trailers through the streets of Sharja and Dubai in the UAE at 0430 in the morning.
That will get your blood coursing better than coffee will.
That will get your blood coursing better than coffee will.
laurence
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Hheheh. Okay I fold. I\'ll get you next round darnnit! I\'ve seen that video of Indian traffic before. My Dad sent it to me when he was working in Delhi. Absolute madness!
People seem pretty relaxed in traffic over here. If it was this kind of driving in Australia there\'d be some serious road rage. It\'s true that there is some order to the chaos. And that it can work in your favour too, without any rage involved.
This is funny --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0V3P6_3zic <--
if you\'re interested in how ubiquitous scooters can be here in Taiwan.
Oh and Steelcult. That sounds like total madness having 24 passenger Nissan Buses racing through streets over there. That\'s gotta be scary! I sure wouldn\'t want to be a passenger on one of those buses! I can imagine that you\'d need heap of very strong coffee to get anywhere near that sensation! Darn road lunatics!
/edit\\ That filter on the internet really sux!
Hheheh. Okay I fold. I\'ll get you next round darnnit!
I\'ve seen that video of Indian traffic before. My Dad sent it to me when he was working in Delhi. Absolute madness! People seem pretty relaxed in traffic over here. If it was this kind of driving in Australia there\'d be some serious road rage. It\'s true that there is some order to the chaos. And that it can work in your favour too, without any rage involved.
This is funny --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0V3P6_3zic <--
if you\'re interested in how ubiquitous scooters can be here in Taiwan.
Oh and Steelcult. That sounds like total madness having 24 passenger Nissan Buses racing through streets over there. That\'s gotta be scary! I sure wouldn\'t want to be a passenger on one of those buses! I can imagine that you\'d need heap of very strong coffee to get anywhere near that sensation! Darn road lunatics!
/edit\\ That filter on the internet really sux!
mattsterbenz
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No thanks, I\'ll walk! lol
I\'m amazed that people don\'t get in more wrecks there. I\'d probably be like Supervike and go nuts with road rage. I already can\'t stand the \"snowbirds\" we get here (old people who live up north where it\'s cold and come to AZ in the winters for the warm weather. Imagine people who stop at green lights and go 15 miles under the speed limit all the time. That\'s enough for me to go a little wacko)
-Matt
I\'m amazed that people don\'t get in more wrecks there. I\'d probably be like Supervike and go nuts with road rage. I already can\'t stand the \"snowbirds\" we get here (old people who live up north where it\'s cold and come to AZ in the winters for the warm weather. Imagine people who stop at green lights and go 15 miles under the speed limit all the time. That\'s enough for me to go a little wacko
) -Matt
Shawn R. L.
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Originally posted by laurence
Hheheh. Okay I fold. I\'ll get you next round darnnit!
After seeing what slah posted, I\'ll fold too. It would be interesting to see the stat\'s on injuries/fatalites in such a system. I have the funny feeling that it\'s probably lower than expected.
Here in da States, 55mph is touted as a \'safe\' speed to drive at but I hear the German autobahn is actually safer. Strange though, I think I\'d FREAK OUT going as fast as they do there!
mattsterbenz
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The reason the Autobahn is so safe is because the drivers actually obey the rules. lol Since it\'s only two lanes, you must always stay in the right hand lane unless passing someone (if I recall correctly). Even if you\'re flying down the left hand lane at 120mph, someone else may be going even faster!
