As my driver’s license for 47 years and carry out the manual and automatic gearboxes, Volkswagen bugs, Corvette, Nissan 300 ZX Turbo Lincoln the finest luxury, like you think that I drive each anywhere in the world.
My leadership is excellent. No accidents and no points in the last 6 years and discount qualifies me for the best view and the best insurance companies in Canada. A pilot test with the best leadership folder.
Come in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and rent a car to the side and in the city should be a breeze that you expect. Well, who thinks it is wrong.
Leadership here must be seen to be believed. Do not try if you know someone that you brought up here as Watch Out For.
Here my list:
The lines on the roads does not mean a thing here. You can carry it on, you can access the page, but do not expect that the drivers are to drive. Why? Because on the left side of the road you will find motorcycles to cars to move, as is the path of the motorcycle. This is one of the reasons. Another is that the red taxis (converted vans as taxis) and tuk tuk (three-wheelers, motorcycles, as taxis) on the fast track in the middle of the two channels in an attempt to collect more passengers and are not lost , the positioning in a fast circulation.
Light does not mean a thing here. The vehicles can be used to green and a ride against the flow of traffic if it hmmm. the first, second, third or even fourth-line carrier, before a traffic light as you want in a crossing with the light after turning green. Wait for the cars to start, if he is red red hmmm. that one, two or possibly three seconds earlier.
Attention for the 3-wheel bicycles. These are usually slim in sixty men, who has for years. This May was a fashion and transport, 50 years ago, but now there is a danger on the roads because they are moving along 4 mi / h on the streets of cars and motorcycles, all in a hurry to somewhere.
Beware of sellers push their carts 2 mph in the street on the left side of the road.
Beware of dogs, the gisaient on the street and the refusal to move or with regret that the last second.
If you have the speed of travel on a highway at 45 mi / h in bumper to bumper traffic EXPECT someone tailgate of the vehicle. Oh, maybe 10 meters from your rear bumper, or maybe 5 ft from your bumper. Nice, polite, quiet, that they are the people in Thailand, if they are behind the wheel, they make changes in the transition from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde.
I believe that most drivers have the obligation at the end of a base, which is unlikely if they have an accident. That is why they try to be cautious and not to beat the other cars from 3 feet away from vehicles driving on its passenger side. Or they can not think of distance, because they are inexperienced or they are very, very careful, that allow them to the street by using part of your path, forcing your way.
The overshoot, irrespective of whether you do not have the vehicle in front of you on the left or right side. So, if you expect on the road that a vehicle from straight on your way to a slower vehicle. You go and you slow down or to move out of your way, because they are going somewhere in an emergency.
Overtaking another vehicle, as by a vehicle mounted and can not see what is before them, the excess occurs in the curves and the driver not to see what is before them, the amount set out when and where.
Pedestrian crossing with a green light do not have the right to make the vehicles in the first place, and you must be clear if you do it safely.
Now, in May after it said that you think is the guy trying to make me afraid, is trying to be funny, there is no need to express myself in Chiang Mai? Answering these questions is:
I want you know what you are going to do, if you decide to drive here. I wish that you do not injure someone else, or thinking, you can go and rent / drive a vehicle without an engine and without a few tips here.
When I saw the traffic and, I think I would never be able to drive here. Now I can here with the car. I know what to monitor and drivers of the current green or red, does not surprise me or anger from me. I just wait.
The Thai driver is not likely to lead to a formal no decent cover in May and May to be postponed when it comes to how they drive May to earn money so that they feed their family. So, nothing against them, I want to adapt their driving habits and will be the mines. No matter how they drive their Happy Go Lucky, happy, people are working very hard and I love it.
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