Just 15 minutes on the streets of Bangalore, and our driver hit a car and got rear-ended by a motorcycle.
The driving situation is beyond self-satirical. They have to punt on all rules and go with local routing, like a flock. Not only are lanes ignored completely, even the partitioning of two-way traffic changes in real time as we pull into oncoming traffic. The close-packing of buses, rickshaws, cars, motorcycles, bikes and pedestrians intermingle with a strange cadence of swerves.
Most mirrors are missing, or folded in to give a few more inches of side clearance. In out car, even the rear-view mirror serves as a mount for a TV screen.
Instead of looking back, everyone honks as they approach to pass (lots of little honks everywhere) and whoever is a nose in front of another has the right of way.
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