Road Rules ...
From two weeks of being a witness to the crazy driving, and a limited amount of driving myself here - here's what I've come up with.
- Hand signals [i.e. furious waving outside the window] trump indicators.
- When one wants to turn left, begin turn from the extreme right lane - indicator optional - and proceed to block traffic until turn is complete.
- When turning right onto a main road from a side road [remember we're driving on the left side of the road], it is only courteous to cross into oncoming traffic, blocking everyone travelling in the opposite direction until the road you're trying to enter clears up enough to complete the turn.
- people don't take you seriously unless you honk - when overtaking, make sure to honk so that the vehicles know you're attempting to overtake - since no one uses their mirrors, and change "lanes" [they're imaginary] blindly, if you do not honk, you're likely to have someone ease into you or yell.
- it is custom to attempt to overtake vehicles that faster [sometimes as slow] than the one you are driving - for example: rickshaws overtaking other rickshaws, buses over taking buses, rickshaws overtaking buses.
- buses find it neccessary to switch from the left side of the road to the right after pulling out of a bus stop, only to immediately pull back to the left moments later to stop at their next stop.
- traffic lights -- green always means go, yellow means - keep going, red means step on it so you make it through. when stopped at a light, some intersections have timers indicating how much longer the light will take to change - when the light is still red, and there are five seconds to go - don't be surprised if some dudes shoot through the intersection
- always drive with your high beam on - at the very least you'll drive your fellow drivers to blindness and there'll be less people on the road right?
There are so many more things I can't think of right now - of course I think of them when I'm driving!!!
- Hand signals [i.e. furious waving outside the window] trump indicators.
- When one wants to turn left, begin turn from the extreme right lane - indicator optional - and proceed to block traffic until turn is complete.
- When turning right onto a main road from a side road [remember we're driving on the left side of the road], it is only courteous to cross into oncoming traffic, blocking everyone travelling in the opposite direction until the road you're trying to enter clears up enough to complete the turn.
- people don't take you seriously unless you honk - when overtaking, make sure to honk so that the vehicles know you're attempting to overtake - since no one uses their mirrors, and change "lanes" [they're imaginary] blindly, if you do not honk, you're likely to have someone ease into you or yell.
- it is custom to attempt to overtake vehicles that faster [sometimes as slow] than the one you are driving - for example: rickshaws overtaking other rickshaws, buses over taking buses, rickshaws overtaking buses.
- buses find it neccessary to switch from the left side of the road to the right after pulling out of a bus stop, only to immediately pull back to the left moments later to stop at their next stop.
- traffic lights -- green always means go, yellow means - keep going, red means step on it so you make it through. when stopped at a light, some intersections have timers indicating how much longer the light will take to change - when the light is still red, and there are five seconds to go - don't be surprised if some dudes shoot through the intersection
- always drive with your high beam on - at the very least you'll drive your fellow drivers to blindness and there'll be less people on the road right?
There are so many more things I can't think of right now - of course I think of them when I'm driving!!!
posted by zai5h at Thursday, June 30, 2005
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