Having experienced both, I think that Chinese driving is marginally better than Egyptian driving, but only in that the Chinese seem better at avoiding actual collisions! Both use any available, or even imagined, gap to force their way forward: there must be some sort of penalty applied for not being first of which I am not aware. I did witness one collision in Cairo, when a small red car sped suicidally fast into an area where three roads converge, to wind up embedded in the side of a taxi. The taxi driver, of course, was exercising his God-given right to continue to merge without checking that there actually was a gap...
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandy Harris Sent: Thursday, 7 May 2009 10:14 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Boston Drivers (was New Jersey Drivers (Was nutty Norwegians)) On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > I am very pleased to see that others are taking the heat that used to be > born by the sainted drivers of Boston, Mass. > > [SNIP] > > Now that's a Boston driver, circa 1958! Great story. A description of Chinese driving: http://wikitravel.org/en/Driving_in_China#Dangers The Middle East is even worse. Anyone who thinks Boston, Paris or Rome traffic is crazy has not seen these. In a discussion among a dozen or so well-travelled folk some years back, all agreed that Saudi Arabia was pretty bad (worse than Cairo, Mexico, China, ...). Only the few who had been to Tehran or Lagos thought they'd seen worse. Nobody had been to both of those, so we could not reach a conclusion about the worst drivers on Earth. -- Sandy Harris, Quanzhou, Fujian, China -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
