We know they're insane, David "Ogged" Addington. That's why we must remain vigilant and Support Our Leader.
Stop whining, ogged. It's like that in a lot of places outside the West, or so I've been told.
Looks like a urban college campus at about 3 PM.
Tell your off-to-China friends that that's what Chinese pedestrians are like too. Especially the grandmothers. We always imagined the thought process was something akin to "I survived the Long March, motherfuckers, you think I'm afraid of some fuckin' car???"
The busses were what frightened me. They just coasted blithely along and I kept waiting for the forty car pileup when they crashed into each other.
Wasn't there some study a while back that found that there are *fewer* fatal accidents in places where folks drive like that? I seem to remember the argument being that when drivers know that no one believes in lanes and that pedestrians will cross with impunity, they pay more attention to what's going on.
6: I'd be interested in seeing that study. While there's a certain intuitive sense to what you say, and as a passenger I certainly paid more attention to driving than I do in the States (chronic white knuckles were a common expat affliction), I saw plenty of blood and guts on China's roadways, and I'm pretty sure their traffic death statistics are crazy high adjusted for the number of cars per capita.
7/8: I stand corrected.
Also, why wage war? Let's just give Iran more cars.
This captures the Shanghai traffic experience pretty well.
Oh wait, this does it even better.
Still looks safer than driving in Iraq.........
M/tch, I really wanted to experience an instantaneous full body recoil away from the monitor this morning. I think I have whiplash.
Thanks M/tch! I feel five pounds lighter!
That's weak, M/tch. The first one, I mean. I've seen other videos that actually make the bicycles look threatening.
Thanks M/tch! I feel five pounds lighter!
Five pounds? Wow. That's an impressive bowel movement!
That's weak, M/tch. The first one, I mean. I've seen other videos that actually make the bicycles look threatening.
It's called "lulling you into a false sense of security".
And for the record, it's actually really apostropher who's responsible.
That's an impressive etc.
I think this was one of the rare cases where the punchline doesn't benefit from spelling-out.
I just wanted you to feel noticed and appreciated, standpipe.
Bit like Naples really. The trick is to remember that most of them would actually prefer not to kill you.
We were told in Taiwan in 1983 that truck drivers were instructed to make sure the pedestrian was dead before the police came. Supposedly compensation for death was cheaper than lifelong disability plus medical care. No one had insurance, so victims would actually have to be sent money every month.
Urban legends, I'm pretty sure, but traffic was indeed crazy there too.
It's not easy being Green.
Wow. That's an impressive Kermit reference!