OT: India Driving...

[Qube]

This is in response to that drifting video with the bicycle :)

Driving in India... notice one guy actually goes wrong way later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM&feature=Favorites&page=4&t=t&f=b

It's a fact. Traffic lights and speed limits cause accidents, not people!

[genphreak]

Heh, I agree. Its amazing how much traffic gets down a road in a given amount of time in India, that is nothing, a lot of roads are chockablock and still keep moving through in this fashion. Mayhem to us though.

I was thinking of getting a bike, but then I saw this... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc6fBIc_L8A)

Gee, back to my 4-wheel gasguzzling slushbox!!!

[Macv]

I laughed pretty hard at that last pile-up deal. I couldnt imagine what I would do if I were caught in something like that. That's too funny.

[Yiorgos]

I see a few Hindustan Ambassadors in there!

I got this in my email some time back, but it was sped up -- looks even funnier.

[SharkmanBMW]

here is one that is a little less funny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwyA_hwaioc&mode=related&search=

[genphreak]

here is one that is a little less funny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwyA_hwaioc&mode=related&search=This is the best compilation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrVyZdvo2cQ&mode=related&search=) I've seen online... enjoy... :) Nick

[biondani]

I'm in Bangalore for the month and I must admit the driving over here scares me. Been sat in a Tuk Tuk thinking the guy driving has a death wish. I've survived 2 weeks, only another 2 to go.

Ian

[genphreak]

I'm in Bangalore for the month and I must admit the driving over here scares me. Been sat in a Tuk Tuk thinking the guy driving has a death wish. I've survived 2 weeks, only another 2 to go.

IanGood luck man, you take your life in your hands on many roads. I had to close my eyes all the time. I could only manage this as after surviving an hour or so in those conditions, thinking that every truck and bus is about to impact with us (and it didn't). Your faith in the driver is therefore built up to the point where it becomes a sort of blind-faith... so long as you close them in time that is... :)

Yes, that intersection is normal, indeed, nothing by Indian driving standards. It would kill us off fast, even in our e34s.

[biondani]

Good luck man, you take your life in your hands on many roads. I had to close my eyes all the time. I could only manage this as after surviving an hour or so in those conditions, thinking that every truck and bus is about to impact with us (and it didn't). Your faith in the driver is therefore built up to the point where it becomes a sort of blind-faith... so long as you close them in time that is... :)

Yes, that intersection is normal, indeed, nothing by Indian driving standards. It would kill us off fast, even in our e34s.

I couldn't ever imagine even trying to drive myself over here, it's just too manic. I have seen a few minor accidents, on the Mysore - Bangalore highway a motorbike doing a U-Turn just toppled over throwing him and the female passenger (sat sideways like most) off the bike. They got up no worries.

Saturday I saw a motorbike turn over as I was crossing the road (that took 10 minutes but another story) and the traffic just swerved around it tooting their horns to say get out of the way. Not one person stopped.

Today a tuk tuk (rickshaw) drove into the back of another one as it stopped to avoid a cow and the second driver went crazy as he was picking up broken bits off the road saying the other driver shouldn't have stopped even though he was looking sideways at the time and had narrowly missed 5 or 6 people.

The Indians find nothing wrong with walking down the centre lane of a 3 lane road with their backs to the traffic using it as a make shift pavement, and the motorbikes seem to think nothing wrong with using the pavement if the road looks busy. Seeing a bike drive the wrong way down a road is the norm rather than the exception.

I can't wait to get home to the relative sanity of the UK when I can take the cover off my E34 and drive again.

Ian

[The Bigfella]

I'm in Bangalore for the month and I must admit the driving over here scares me. Been sat in a Tuk Tuk thinking the guy driving has a death wish. I've survived 2 weeks, only another 2 to go.

Ian


I'm supposed to be in Bangalore now - but the job has been delayed 6-8 weeks (although it hasn't been finally confirmed yet).

Ian

[632 Regal]

damn nice sig bigfella!
I'm supposed to be in Bangalore now - but the job has been delayed 6-8 weeks (although it hasn't been finally confirmed yet).

Ian