Hi guys, I'm currently in ShangHai I didn't came here for quite some time already but come here this year for business. Talking about driving attitude. I think PRC here is No.1 most crazy country to drive. A lot of WTF moments and Holy Sh*t moment too.
Scooter/Electric scooter
Here you can any kind of scooters here which in fact some I have no idea what they are and seems like they just take any parts they can find and assemble themselves in the house and drive it on the road. Here anything with wheels and an engine you can find it on the road. There's no sense of direction here sometimes it makes me wonder if I'm driving on the wrong side of the road when you see a bunch of scooters driving the opposite direction on your side (PRC is LHD). Scooters here WILL come out of the road at any direction you can imagine or you can't imagine. Wearing helmet is for sissy only here no ones where a helmet even riding on the main street pack full of big trucks and cars. There are a lot of nice and luxury cars here..A6, Q5, 7series, Cayenne, Golf, Passat, Camrys, Evoque, Escalade...etc...Golf, Camry, Focus, Audi is like Vioses and MyVis in Malaysia...they are every where. Problem is drivers here are nuts. Signalling is a rare thing. They turn, overtake, cut Q....no need signal at all...Sometimes you can suddenly see a car stop vertically in your lane to go over to the other side of the road. WHen they light turns green is best to WOT from standstill because you will get honk by the whole line of cars behind if you don't move in less than 2 milisecs.
Speed/Traffic cam, in PRC you can spot a lot of speed/traffic cam. When I say a lot it is really A LOT...almost few KM you have 1 speed cam but drivers here give a f*ck about it....they will just speed pass the cam while it flash. speed cam here flashes like a flash unit on a paparazzi's DLSR....speed cam? where? got speed cam?? hahahahaha. Speeding fine here is RMB200 + point deduction. Our Malaysia 1 AES is enough to make everyone a obedient drivers. Pedestrian here is like some lost soul too. They cross the road at any place they like some even try to cross a busy 4 lane at 1 go....
To sum it all up, driving in China need not only skill and spiderman like reflexes but you need to have balls of all metal known to the universe combined.
What the hell is this thing? half truck, half errr bike? half errr...it's running on steam engine.....WTF
No truck for big load? nevermind, modify...
Helmet? what for...everyone here is a Shaolin Monk
1 hand driving 1 hand holding baby....who needs seatbelt or helmet.