Are Asians Bad Drivers?

[Loisalene]

I am sure the stereotype originated up here in the Pacific Northwest. We have a large Asian populace as does Vancouver, BC. There are a Lot of immigrants on both sides of the border and yes, they drive exceedingly strange.
One of the scariest things I have ever witnessed was on Seattle’s reversible express lanes in the early 1980’s. A car with Canadian plates and an Asian family was next to me. We passed an on/off ramp and they slammed on their brakes, turned around in the middle of the 4 lane expressway and exited off the on ramp! They narrowly avoided several cars while doing their 180. 30+ years later it still stands out in my memory crystal clear - things like This are a stereotype’s catalyst!

[bizzwire]

@Balthisar

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Thailand seems to be one of the saner places to drive in Asia. I’ll take it over China and India any day! The worst thing about Thailand is everyone invents their own turn lanes. Granted, I’ve only stuck to the toll roads and I’m only considering automobiles.

Pardon the bump, but I wanted to relate a tale from my salad days, bumming around SE Asia. We took a bus into the Thai hinterlands. I was sitting next to the driver, who, I noticed, sat sideways in his seat, facing the door, rather than, say, the road. When I asked him why, he explained that, like a sizable percentage of Thais, he was an animist, and believe that at the time of death, one’s soul left the body, and, since bus drivers tend to die from head-on collisions, sitting athwart his seat would give his soul an additional few milliseconds of lead time to vamoose, as it were.

This was all well and good, except for the fact that he was obviously blind in one eye; his left one. The one that was more or less pointing toward where the bus was going.

[P-man]

When I lived in NYC and saw a driver do something particularly boneheaded it was common for another witness to roll their eyes and mutter “Blacks” or “Chinese” or “Jews” or “Dominicans”. My conclusion? Nobody in New York knows how to drive.

[Siam_Sam]

@bizzwire

Pardon the bump, but I wanted to relate a tale from my salad days, bumming around SE Asia. We took a bus into the Thai hinterlands. I was sitting next to the driver, who, I noticed, sat sideways in his seat, facing the door, rather than, say, the road. When I asked him why, he explained that, like a sizable percentage of Thais, he was an animist, and believe that at the time of death, one’s soul left the body, and, since bus drivers tend to die from head-on collisions, sitting athwart his seat would give his soul an additional few milliseconds of lead time to vamoose, as it were.

This was all well and good, except for the fact that he was obviously blind in one eye; his left one. The one that was more or less pointing toward where the bus was going.

I have never seen a bus driver sitting in this manner. Bus driver’s here do, however, have a tendency to “flee the scene.” Company records are often too sketchy to tell who was driving a particular route when. I’d say he was just preparing to leap out at the last minute so he could haul ass and disappear. The phrase is like a macro in the local newspapers: “The bus driver fled the scene.”

[qazwart]

@bizzwire

Pardon the bump, but I wanted to relate a tale from my salad days, bumming around SE Asia. We took a bus into the Thai hinterlands. I was sitting next to the driver, who, I noticed, sat sideways in his seat, facing the door, rather than, say, the road. When I asked him why, he explained that, like a sizable percentage of Thais, he was an animist, and believe that at the time of death, one’s soul left the body, and, since bus drivers tend to die from head-on collisions, sitting athwart his seat would give his soul an additional few milliseconds of lead time to vamoose, as it were.

This was all well and good, except for the fact that he was obviously blind in one eye; his left one. The one that was more or less pointing toward where the bus was going.

I would be more concerned that he was so absolutely positively sure he was going to die driving that bus more than that blind eye.