# Mainland China (PRC) Driving

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainland-china-prc-driving/987810>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 30, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainland-china-prc-driving/987810 "2023-07-30T01:42:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainland-china-prc-driving/987810/21 "2023-08-01T17:09:23Z")

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IOW, _my_ truck is bigger than _your_ truck. Or equivalently My penis is smaller than your penis.

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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainland-china-prc-driving/987810/22 "2023-08-01T17:42:05Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> IOW, _my_ truck is bigger than _your_ truck.

That seemed to literally be the _de facto_ rules in Vietnam when I visited in 2019. The bigger your vehicle was, the more directly you’re allowed to move from Point A to Point B. The key was, you had to do it slowly enough that everyone around you could figure out how to go around you to get to Point C.

We were on a large tour bus, and on the main highway, he plopped himself right in the middle, straddling the center line, and only deviated when a vehicle of comparable size was coming the other way. _How much_ he deviated depended on the relative size differential.

Everyone else on motorcycles and the like just passed the bus any way they wanted, left and right sides, like water passing a rock in a stream.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainland-china-prc-driving/987810/23 "2023-08-01T18:32:28Z")

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That is pretty much 3rd world standard driving. I saw the same in Panamá too.

The busses & trucks acted like they were the only things on the road. The cars acted like they were the only things on the road except for the “fixed” obstacles of the busses and trucks. The motorcycles & motorscooters likewise vs the busses, trucks, & cars, with the pedestrians taking up Tail-end Charlie position in the hierarchy.

Such fun.

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