AMERICAN RIDING A MOTORBIKE IN HANOI VIETNAM

Cheat death by learning how to drive a motorcycle in Hanoi, Vietnam before your backpacking road trip! Learn the real rules of the road as we drive near the Old Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam.
siftbotsays...

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BSRsays...

I don't think we have intersections wide enough to accomplish this if it was allowed. Even if we did it would take way too long for Americans to tolerate the chaos and give up their cars for motorbikes.

surfingytsaid:

and this version of freedom would never be allowed in america

StukaFoxsays...

This is like driving around the Arc de Triumph in Paris. It's absolute insanity and you HAVE to drive through it to get certain parts of the city. Imagine a huge round-about with no set rules, no one uses their signals and everyone is French. Yet, somehow, there's rarely accidents and it just sorta works.

Also, driving in Paris in general tends to be hair-raising, especially in the Left Bank.

BSRsaid:

It looks like total chaos but somehow everything seems to keep moving. Just a world of acceptance and just keep moving on.

eric3579says...

In 2017 "A total of more than 20,000 traffic accidents occurred in 2017, killing nearly 8,300 people and injuring over 17,000 across Vietnam"
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/traffic-accidents-kill-over-8-000-people-in-vietnam-in-2017-3692532.html

They have cut in half the amount of accidents from 2012 (36,380) to 2018 (18,740). https://www.statista.com/statistics/986115/vietnam-total-annual-traffic-accidents/

List of countries by traffic-related death rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

diggum317said:

So what's the accident/death rate I wonder.

StukaFoxsays...

You've apparently never driven in my neighborhood. There's a 6-way stop that leads into my section of Seattle and NO ONE knows how to work it. The people who actually live here do ok, but Uber/Lyft drivers encounter this traffic monstrosity with a mix of dread and WTF-ery.

See also: driving up and down 1-lane streets on the hills.

surfingytsaid:

and this version of freedom would never be allowed in america

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