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Rules Of The Road In China?

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China Shark:
The only rules are there are that there are no rules. Yes, it is one big game of psychotic chicken. It is so funny discussing this bad behavior with Chinese because they just reply back that is just the way it is. I'm a pretty courageous driver yet would never attempt driving here. Not worried about myself, it is all the other fools I'm worrying about hitting me. But the one thing I must agree with Paul is that the Chinese are so insinct with one another that they always manage to avoid collisions just at the last minute. If I drove for 10 minutes here I'de be behind bars for throttling the first fool for running into me. But growing up in a tough city I've learned how to jump out of the way of reckless drivers at a young age.
China Shark Mike

Agarn:
Well written Paul

motor bikes often ride on the foot paths and the riders are genuinly confused if you dont move out of their way.

many of you have seen the driving in chinese cities, think about it on compacted snow and ice without snow chains, you have to see it to believe it, damm impressive

Peter:
When I was in Changsha we took a Cab wherever we went.. To my surprise I didn't see any Cab with scratch marks...

Agarn:
Chinese  taxi drivers are part bat, never hit anything!

Paul Todd:
Hot chilli peppers keep death off Chinese roads,

Chinese police have come up with a novel idea to keep drivers awake on the deadliest roads in the world – supply them with free chilli peppers to prevent them falling asleep at the wheel.

In the southwestern Chongqing region, home to one of the most spicy diets in the world, police have begun serving drivers dried chilli peppers at highway service stations because they are worried that driving in the Spring will mean drivers are even more sleepy than usual.:huh:

Drivers have already stopped and helped themselves to 1.5kg (3lb) of featherlight dried peppers since the service began nine days ago, local newspapers reported. “It’s an unbelievable quantity,” a police officer said.:s

And that assessment comes in the Sichuan provincial region of China where the chilli pepper is effectively a compulsory ingredient of any dish that wants to be regarded as a serious contender for a place in the demanding hierarchy of Chinese cuisine.

Most of the drivers passing through this area are from Sichuan, Yunnan and Hunan provinces where chilli peppers have come to be regarded as a prerequisite for any dish. Drivers just dig their hand into a bag of dried chilli peppers available at the side of the road and munch down on the ultra-spicy deep red peppers. Driver Chen Jun said: “It’s really good to have some hot peppers when you are tired from driving. They make you alert.”

That vote of confidence should encourage the police, who face a crisis trying to curb the death toll on the most dangerous roads in the world. China reported 5.1 road accident deaths for every 10,000 motor vehicles in 2007, the highest in the world. The world average was two deaths per 10,000 vehicles.

The lion’s share of the fatalities are pedestrians, followed by bicyclist and motorcyclists. Mortality rates for men are estimated to be more than twice as high for men as for women.

Road deaths have almost doubled as car ownership in the world’s most populous nation has rocketed from 1985 to 2005. The death rate increased by 95 per cent and one reported that the fatality rate would only rise as increasingly affluent Chinese indulged their craving for a car.

Official statistics show tha China has 3 per cent of the world’s cars while accounting for 16 per cent of all traffic deaths each year.

This would so not work for me!  Jezzz one bite of these dried chilli's and my eyes would water so much I couldn't see where I was going. After a bag full, the next toilet stop would make it a bit tough to sit down let alone drive! So maybe it would work, but only by reducing the amount of lowai's on the road!

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