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[quote=WCTMAN,249215]It is anarchy on the roads here in China.  Maybe there are some rules somewhere;  maybe there is even a printed list of them.  Who knows?  What I do know is that pedestrians have no rights whatsoever and this fact, combined with the overwhelming incompetence of the vast majority of drivers, makes getting out and about in your daily life a dangerous challenge.  By incompetence I mean that, if you cannot park, drive in reverse, or otherwise control a car at less than 3 km/hr, you have no business whatsoever taking your 1000 kgs of steel out onto the roadways.

Apault has suggested that current rules ( ? ) are based on an era when there was little traffic;  I tend to think that such rules are actually based on the bicycle era ( not that bikes are uncommon now, just less so ).  On a bike, it is energy consuming to come to a complete stop at any kind of intersection, so it was most efficient to just slow down a bit and turn into, or across, traffic.  What is the worst that could happen?  A "bicycle fender bender", or maybe some scrapped knees and elbows?.  When this logic is applied to cars and trucks and buses, well....you can imagine the result.

And it will only get worse as more and more people realize the dream of car ownership.

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