I recently spent a month in India. The way I describe driving there is to think of driving in the States. Sometimes someone does something weird, cuts you off, whatever, you roll with it. But there’s a certain level of weird or dangerous behavior such that, when you arrived at home or work, you’d say something like “And you won’t believe this guy who cut off two lanes of traffic so he could go the wrong way up the entrance ramp” or whatever it was. Not a lot of things rise to this level of mentionability.
In India the driving reached this level every 60-90 seconds.
Yeah, India is quite unlike any other place I’ve been to. I’ve seen a highway just end with a bunch of concrete blocks across it - no signs, nothing. Flipped trucks lying on the side of the road every few km. Lots of overtaking on the opposite lane in blind corners - you just have to get out of their way in time, or you’re dead.
City traffic isn’t that dangerous because it’s really slow, so I got used to it after a few visits. I’m still terrified of the highways though.
California is an example of an orderly place to drive?
I recently spent a month in India. The way I describe driving there is to think of driving in the States. Sometimes someone does something weird, cuts you off, whatever, you roll with it. But there’s a certain level of weird or dangerous behavior such that, when you arrived at home or work, you’d say something like “And you won’t believe this guy who cut off two lanes of traffic so he could go the wrong way up the entrance ramp” or whatever it was. Not a lot of things rise to this level of mentionability.
In India the driving reached this level every 60-90 seconds.
Yeah, India is quite unlike any other place I’ve been to. I’ve seen a highway just end with a bunch of concrete blocks across it - no signs, nothing. Flipped trucks lying on the side of the road every few km. Lots of overtaking on the opposite lane in blind corners - you just have to get out of their way in time, or you’re dead.
City traffic isn’t that dangerous because it’s really slow, so I got used to it after a few visits. I’m still terrified of the highways though.
Compared to many other places (like India, as described in the article), yes.
It was more of a jest than anything else. ;)