>> 1.    Other people will compensate for the behaviour so it's safe.
>> (Works extremely well in Bangkok)(I kid you not).
>> (snip)
>
> big ROFL for this list! (and I hope you did mean it that way)


:-)

But, the bit about Bangkok is true!
And it's arguably even more true in Taiwan.
I spent a small while on business in Taiching, Taiwan's 2nd biggest 
city. I did not drive but was driven everywhere. Travelling along 
urban residential streets vehicles would approach almost head on at 
50+ kph each. At the last moment each would be thrown onto its own 
side of the road, passing with about zero clearance. Utterly unnerving 
for the passenger.

At major city intersections with perhaps 6 streets meeting in a large 
open square, when lights went green, some motor scooters would transit 
the centre on the wrong side of the road, head-on into approaching 
traffic, and then dive down the wrong side of their selected exit and 
then correct. Unbelievable to watch. In a car you are always 
surrounded by a buzzing swarm of motor scooters which seem to obey no 
rules. My host, a NZer who has lived there for years, largely did not 
see the scooters around him at all - he just drives where he is going 
and the scooters automagically adjust their paths. When I commented on 
one ultra near miss he had no recollection of a scooter having been 
there at all.



        RM

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