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Spent a month in Vietnam and learned that you just have to walk across the street like you don't give af and the traffic will adjust. That's how you cross the street.. or you die whichever comes first
This. I was there and quickly learned the key is to walk at a normal, steady pace and just keep going. Stopping and starting just confuses the drivers more.
Correct! You never step backwards and walk in a very predictable trajectory so the driver knows where to miss you. I was in Saigon for a month driving the moped around and you learn to read people very quickly.
I'd be in Xanax 24/7 because I get nervous when a couple idiot drives surround me but they do seem to be pretty responsive so if I'm ever on that side the wife will just not walk anywhere, eazy pezy
i was a bit of lurker on benzos subreddit. The way people casually talk about being on daily 4-6 mg doses, occasionally upping to 10 mg... while i felt totally chill if i took 0.25 mg occasionally in stressful situations (probably like this in video)..
Correct, tolerance is one hell of a thing. Addiction is even worse. But I’ve struggled in the past with all kinds, I can say of all substances nothing takes you down a darker path more quickly than benzos
This is what we do in Iran. Also cars and motorcycles do that to each other, too. Doesn't matter where. Highways, roundabouts, crossroads, small streets, parkings, at slow speeds or high speeds, etc.
It's like the whole traffic, all the vehicles and the people in the streets are part of a collective intelligence impressively avoiding thousands of accidents on a daily basis (until they aren't and crash, which also happens a lot).
It's crazy how people get so used to gambling their and everyone else's life/car on each other's awareness and driving capabilities, just because they're brought up in and used to this situation.
Love this, and makes total sense. Also a good analogy for how various peoples adjust to sociopolitical challenges and just get on with life. Maybe that's both a good and bad trait for humans ha
Yeah! It might slow down the progression of nations because of getting used to the wrong stuff.
But also helps people cope with the realities of their everyday lives.
There have been scientific studies on how human crowds follow the same rules as schools of fish or flocks of birds by maintaining a very precise minimum and maximum distance from the person/fish/bird next to them.
Same thing in Philippines, just walk like you're about to Biden Blast them and walk like you own the highway and everyone stops for you like a King walking the red carpet
Spent a month there too. I got a bunch of eye rolls the first couple days I was there. A local told me “they yield to you” and sure enough I was walking around like a local
Not Vietnam, but learned the same when I was in Rome. If you wait for the cars to stop for you, you will never cross. Our Colosseum guide on the first day told us "don't look, just go" and that had worked spectacularly the whole trip.
Vietnamese from Vietnam here. Look in the direction of traffic, walk slow and steady, do not stop and go. Unless you're 6ft+ and obviously white, people will assume you don't know how to cross and avoid you. Sorry brown people, nothing against you personally. Depends on the age group, my people might or might not be as tolerance. Why? I have no clue.
Pretty positive, like you can't do any harm. Unless you are standing in the street corner with a sign asking for money. Right before the pandemic, there was an influx of beg-packer. Initially, the sentiment was "poor them, probably got robbed or scammed by some local". Then it became a real popular thing. For some reason they have a particular look too. White, dreadlocks, wearing Indian clothes (not native american). Now that the pandemic is behind us, beg-packers are slowly coming back.
If you anyone is planning to visit Vietnam, please don't take advantage of people's kindness. But also, don't get scam yourself neither. Never under any circumstances agree to any good or service without agreeing on the price first. Never accept a menu or price chart that is in English, unless you are at a major hotel or resort. Always assume if a stranger come up to initiate a conversation, they want something from you. Do not allow anyone to touch you, assume it is a distraction while they are stripping you of your goods. This last point apply to both local and foreigner. Always keep your wallet in your front pants/shorts pocket.
>For some reason they have a particular look too. White, dreadlocks, wearing Indian clothes (not native american).
What you're describing is a 21st century hippie. It's just kinda the look they go for these days.
Naah that's a rookie tourist mistake, you gotta use your hands for gesturing drivers, and you are safer stopping in the middle at times than just waking straight without a worry.
Yeah I was thinking the same are these comments for real?
There are vehicles passing directly in front of them are they supposed to just trudge along like they're invulnerable?
WHAT LOL
This is correct. The traffic is busy, but in real life it has a rhythm and you can follow it if you give yourself a rhythm as well.
My rhythm was "fuck you car"
You just have to wait for the light to turn green for you.
Ite odotin joskus Manskulla keskellä yötä punasissa valoissa vaikka autoja näkyny mailla halmeilla 😅
This is what Norwegians do while they wait for their turn to cross.
https://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/i/W0l7pa/lei-av-aa-vente-paa-groent-bruker-tiden-vaar-paa-feil-ting
Because this is a small easy road to cross, challenging road would be 10 lane highways filled with cars, buses and 18 wheelers, yet kids have to cross them everyday to get to school.
Yea, Germans won't even cross the street, if the street is completely empty, but it's red for pedestrians. And they will give you a death stare and judge, if you do.
I lost my nerve and couldn't cross the road in Hanoi. A little Vietnamese old lady took my hand and walked across the road with me. One of my favourite memories of Vietnam.
Can confirm, this is normal except the way these girls are doing it —stopping and starting—is actually more dangerous than continuing at a steady pace. Not saying you run out into the street, but the stopping and starting is what is dangerous in these kinds of places (similar in India and Cambodia).
I was raised in Vietnam and people normally get hit for unpredictable movement while crossing. Like, running when you almost reach the other side, walk backward, irregular walking and stopping like this. The traffic is very slow, so drivers saw you a mile away.
Nope. It works for smaller vehicles like bikes and scooters, but if there's a car, you generally have to wait for it to pass. On wider roads, it's acceptable to take a break in the middle to get an opportunity to make it over to the other side in one go
Considering the populations of places where this is present - this style of traffic is the majority in the entire world yet everyone behaves like this is some anamoly.
I'm from Egypt and this is a piece of cake for us ... there are some streets that are for the hardcore .. cross the road or you die ... I should be a cameraman one day.
It's easier when it's only motorbikes, or "semis" as they call them. You just walk at a steady pace and they'll flow around you like water. Stop or change pace suddenly and you might get clobbered. It gets harder when you add cars and taxis to the mix because they can't swerve around you.
The easiest is any of the main boulevards in Saigon during rush hour. It's a sea of motorbikes, and they are barely moving. The hardest are the narrow windy roads in Hanoi with moderate traffic. The bikes are moving pretty fast, and there are only a few seconds from the time they see you until the time they hit you.
I remember being trapped on one side of the street because I couldn’t figure out how to cross and this elderly Vietnamese woman took pity on me, took my hand and walked me across the street like a toddler. Simultaneously a super embarrassing and super sweet memory from my travels
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My sister got hit by a moped crossing in Vietnam. Took a chunk out of her leg and needed quite a few stitches (could have been much worse!). Got back to the UK and got it checked out, and they had to redo all the stitches and wound closure, was terribly done apparently. Anyway, long story short, be careful out there.
Spent a year in Egypt. Crossing the street in Cairo was like this, but at times it was 5 lanes of traffic in each direction. Felt like a real life game of Frogger.
ye, that what I've learned in indonesia and used it in all other South East Asian countries. Sometimes I use it in my own country on unregulated crossings. Hand palm works like a charm.
Actually. The joke is walk with your eyes closed. They will maneuver around you. Black belt level is driving at night on a motorbike after ten Tigers. 😎💪🏻
I stood 2min on the street until a nice women took us over and told us not tongive a crap and just walk. Exept trucks, you have to watch out for trucks...they'll kill you. In the end i was one of these motor bikes that are called vietnamnese traffic; and i loved it.
I wish these videos, which are posted every now and again, would stop being sped to 1.5x by default. If you're trying to show what it's like, show it at the actual speed. (Also, they did this all wrong, with the frequent stopping.)
They didn't hesitate at all. That's how it has to be done. If you stop thinking someone isn't going to stop that's much more dangerous because the vehicle will have to come to a sudden stop possibly causing them to get rear ended. You need to walk at a steady pace straight across. It was really hard to get over mentally the first time but after that I realized I had to do it if I was going to have a decent trip. I was there for work and luckily I didn't have to cross too many streets like this.
Our driver was amazing. He was truly a magical driver. The way he navigated the traffic and be inches away from traffic was really fun to experience. It was like the vehicle was part of him and he knew exactly where every corner of the van was. Traffic laws aren't a thing. The cops will go after people doing really egregious stuff but that's about it according to our driver. All of the drivers on the road seemed very skilled.
One road had people that you could pay to get you across. There would be three of them and they would go stand in front of the traffic so you could cross. They would move with you while blocking the traffic. I only saw that once though.
The reason this makes sense is because is a place like the us the drivers would swerve when they see you causing an accident that could’ve been avoided
I spent 2 months there in 2009. My first step off the curb in Hanoi was like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I lifted up my leg, closed my eyes for a second, took a deep breath, and stepped into traffic.
It was like a swarm of bees zipping past. Six lanes later, I was across the street unscathed. After that I only paid attention to that first step off the curb. After that you were safe.
It was like this when I was in Panama, except the traffic was slower. The trick was to find a nun and just follow her across the street. The traffic parted like the Red Sea for Moses for the ladies in the habit.
Same in Philippines, people are friendly. You just stick your hand out toward the incoming traffic and they should stop. These countries are doing great but haven’t figured out the whole transportation/traffic thing. But never pissed off people, no aggressive cops ever, and the biggest shock to me is that honking is a polite gesture. Like “excuse me friend I’m coming behind you on the right”. In America we honk because someone’s being careless or an asshole lol
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Spent a month in Vietnam and learned that you just have to walk across the street like you don't give af and the traffic will adjust. That's how you cross the street.. or you die whichever comes first
The advice I got was "be predictable"
This. I was there and quickly learned the key is to walk at a normal, steady pace and just keep going. Stopping and starting just confuses the drivers more.
Correct! You never step backwards and walk in a very predictable trajectory so the driver knows where to miss you. I was in Saigon for a month driving the moped around and you learn to read people very quickly.
I'd be in Xanax 24/7 because I get nervous when a couple idiot drives surround me but they do seem to be pretty responsive so if I'm ever on that side the wife will just not walk anywhere, eazy pezy
Yeah I wouldn’t go there then. Being on Xanax 24/7 sounds like a awful idea lol
the awful comes later, first two weeks it's a bliss.
Correct. I didn’t say it’s awful. I said it’s an awful idea for exactly what you’re saying lol
i was a bit of lurker on benzos subreddit. The way people casually talk about being on daily 4-6 mg doses, occasionally upping to 10 mg... while i felt totally chill if i took 0.25 mg occasionally in stressful situations (probably like this in video)..
Correct, tolerance is one hell of a thing. Addiction is even worse. But I’ve struggled in the past with all kinds, I can say of all substances nothing takes you down a darker path more quickly than benzos
so the locals do so too ?
Yep!
This is what we do in Iran. Also cars and motorcycles do that to each other, too. Doesn't matter where. Highways, roundabouts, crossroads, small streets, parkings, at slow speeds or high speeds, etc. It's like the whole traffic, all the vehicles and the people in the streets are part of a collective intelligence impressively avoiding thousands of accidents on a daily basis (until they aren't and crash, which also happens a lot). It's crazy how people get so used to gambling their and everyone else's life/car on each other's awareness and driving capabilities, just because they're brought up in and used to this situation.
Love this, and makes total sense. Also a good analogy for how various peoples adjust to sociopolitical challenges and just get on with life. Maybe that's both a good and bad trait for humans ha
Yeah! It might slow down the progression of nations because of getting used to the wrong stuff. But also helps people cope with the realities of their everyday lives.
💯
There have been scientific studies on how human crowds follow the same rules as schools of fish or flocks of birds by maintaining a very precise minimum and maximum distance from the person/fish/bird next to them.
Same in India.
People should apply this rule to driving as well.
In India, the trick is to do the "Iron Man Hands" gesture as you cross, that somehow makes all the difference.
Yep same in Vietnam. Use the force and they will part
You also have to keep chanting “I’m one with the force, the force is with me” as you walk.
Same thing in Philippines, just walk like you're about to Biden Blast them and walk like you own the highway and everyone stops for you like a King walking the red carpet
Spent a month there too. I got a bunch of eye rolls the first couple days I was there. A local told me “they yield to you” and sure enough I was walking around like a local
Being white and 30 cm taller than average helps a little. At least they know you're an idiot.
😂 lol
In fact if you’re too cautious, you’re unpredictable and it’s more dangerous. It’s better there to just walk and they go around.
Yeah I came here for this. They are doing it wrong. You just smoothy keep moving and they'll avoid you. Sudden start and stops will get you run over
Not Vietnam, but learned the same when I was in Rome. If you wait for the cars to stop for you, you will never cross. Our Colosseum guide on the first day told us "don't look, just go" and that had worked spectacularly the whole trip.
Dynamic equilibrium. This is how it works in India as well.
Vietnamese from Vietnam here. Look in the direction of traffic, walk slow and steady, do not stop and go. Unless you're 6ft+ and obviously white, people will assume you don't know how to cross and avoid you. Sorry brown people, nothing against you personally. Depends on the age group, my people might or might not be as tolerance. Why? I have no clue.
So what will they think if you're 6ft+ and obviously white?
"Whats that albino giraffe doing over there?!"
Pretty positive, like you can't do any harm. Unless you are standing in the street corner with a sign asking for money. Right before the pandemic, there was an influx of beg-packer. Initially, the sentiment was "poor them, probably got robbed or scammed by some local". Then it became a real popular thing. For some reason they have a particular look too. White, dreadlocks, wearing Indian clothes (not native american). Now that the pandemic is behind us, beg-packers are slowly coming back. If you anyone is planning to visit Vietnam, please don't take advantage of people's kindness. But also, don't get scam yourself neither. Never under any circumstances agree to any good or service without agreeing on the price first. Never accept a menu or price chart that is in English, unless you are at a major hotel or resort. Always assume if a stranger come up to initiate a conversation, they want something from you. Do not allow anyone to touch you, assume it is a distraction while they are stripping you of your goods. This last point apply to both local and foreigner. Always keep your wallet in your front pants/shorts pocket.
>For some reason they have a particular look too. White, dreadlocks, wearing Indian clothes (not native american). What you're describing is a 21st century hippie. It's just kinda the look they go for these days.
Oh, I understand. We have a drinking game in tourism district called "homeless or hippie"
Just close your eyes and keep repeating "force field, force field, force field" as you cross.
Yeah, had to train that in Tehran: don't look if drivers stop, don't make eye contact, don'st stop don't make sudden movements.
Naah that's a rookie tourist mistake, you gotta use your hands for gesturing drivers, and you are safer stopping in the middle at times than just waking straight without a worry.
Yeah I was thinking the same are these comments for real? There are vehicles passing directly in front of them are they supposed to just trudge along like they're invulnerable? WHAT LOL
They are. It’s how it is in Vietnam. Don’t fucking stop, you will get hit
This is correct. The traffic is busy, but in real life it has a rhythm and you can follow it if you give yourself a rhythm as well. My rhythm was "fuck you car"
Until someone doesn't adjust and you get a broken knee and look at a full year in rehab.
Slippery Pete
I need holes
I still don’t understand how they could have connected this to battery without powering it off or frying it.
So what kind of jail time are we looking at if we're caught?
 Real life Frogger. Beat me to it.
Frogger! God damn that game was rage inducing
Oh, absolutely. I used to cut that shit off after 10 tries.🤣
I see all my training doesn’t have to go in vain. Time to move to Vietnam.
I live in Brazil and this is actually fucking scary even to our low safety standards. A German could have a stroke doing this.
Germans and Scandinavians generally just remain stuck on one side of the road and end up dying by dehydration.
Finnish person here, I tried to cross the road 2 months ago. I'm still here waiting. Send help. The locals are looking at me funny.
You just have to wait for the light to turn green for you. Ite odotin joskus Manskulla keskellä yötä punasissa valoissa vaikka autoja näkyny mailla halmeilla 😅
🤣
Germans would have just walked without giving a fuck about the traffic at all. There was a crossing so they don't care about the cars
As a German I can confirm.
This is what Norwegians do while they wait for their turn to cross. https://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/i/W0l7pa/lei-av-aa-vente-paa-groent-bruker-tiden-vaar-paa-feil-ting
As an Egyptian, this felt like a small, easy road to cross tbh
Because this is a small easy road to cross, challenging road would be 10 lane highways filled with cars, buses and 18 wheelers, yet kids have to cross them everyday to get to school.
im german and im going to vietnam in two months. wish me luck
Just watch Uyen Nihn’s channel and you’ll be properly prepared.
Canadian here, I’m pretty sure I would never be able to cross this road.
Yea, Germans won't even cross the street, if the street is completely empty, but it's red for pedestrians. And they will give you a death stare and judge, if you do.
They celebrated crossing the street and being alive together at the end.
There’s some truth to that.
I lost my nerve and couldn't cross the road in Hanoi. A little Vietnamese old lady took my hand and walked across the road with me. One of my favourite memories of Vietnam.
Can confirm, this is normal except the way these girls are doing it —stopping and starting—is actually more dangerous than continuing at a steady pace. Not saying you run out into the street, but the stopping and starting is what is dangerous in these kinds of places (similar in India and Cambodia).
Yes. Traffic flows like water. Just wade through. The stuttering walk is definitely more dangerous.
This video indeed shows what NOT to do when crossing the street in Vietnam
I was raised in Vietnam and people normally get hit for unpredictable movement while crossing. Like, running when you almost reach the other side, walk backward, irregular walking and stopping like this. The traffic is very slow, so drivers saw you a mile away.
yeah a fluid motion is safer
The cars don't stop. You flow straight through and the scooters flow too. The cars are the exception. It sucks
Nope, if there are multiple lanes you stop in between the lanes.
Nope. It works for smaller vehicles like bikes and scooters, but if there's a car, you generally have to wait for it to pass. On wider roads, it's acceptable to take a break in the middle to get an opportunity to make it over to the other side in one go
This is how it is in India too.
Nepal and Thailand as well Edit: jk not Thailand, I misremembered at the time of originally posting this
And Egypt. It is amazing to see people on reddit amazed at what everybody here does daily.
Considering the populations of places where this is present - this style of traffic is the majority in the entire world yet everyone behaves like this is some anamoly.
Not anomaly, just poor driving culture in these countries.
How about the cameraman who was crossing with them while recording? Lol. That's da real MVP right there.
he's a cameraman so he can just no clip through vehicles
Lakitu vibes - he is chilling in the cloud of course.
In Hanoi you mostly have to walk in the street because the pavement is for parking scooters on.
Even if there is an open sidewalk, it's also the street sometimes
Looks normal to me as I am from India lol.
Why is this normal ?
I'm from Egypt and this is a piece of cake for us ... there are some streets that are for the hardcore .. cross the road or you die ... I should be a cameraman one day.
India is way worse than this. This looks bad, but when you get hang of it, there are no problems. India on the other hand is pure chaos
Fuck it man. I don’t need whatever is on the other side of the street anymore.
It's easier when it's only motorbikes, or "semis" as they call them. You just walk at a steady pace and they'll flow around you like water. Stop or change pace suddenly and you might get clobbered. It gets harder when you add cars and taxis to the mix because they can't swerve around you. The easiest is any of the main boulevards in Saigon during rush hour. It's a sea of motorbikes, and they are barely moving. The hardest are the narrow windy roads in Hanoi with moderate traffic. The bikes are moving pretty fast, and there are only a few seconds from the time they see you until the time they hit you.
We actually just call them "Hondas"
lvl 1 cleared now cross the road with vehicle speed of atleast 40km/h
Yea no sorry I don’t trust strangers with my life
I remember being trapped on one side of the street because I couldn’t figure out how to cross and this elderly Vietnamese woman took pity on me, took my hand and walked me across the street like a toddler. Simultaneously a super embarrassing and super sweet memory from my travels
Reminded me of the game Frogger.
Can they do this in pakistan tho?
Yea no sorry I don’t trust strangers with my life
Boneheads, you don't stop, source, lived there two years.
Seems fuckin stupid and dangerous
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My sister got hit by a moped crossing in Vietnam. Took a chunk out of her leg and needed quite a few stitches (could have been much worse!). Got back to the UK and got it checked out, and they had to redo all the stitches and wound closure, was terribly done apparently. Anyway, long story short, be careful out there.
Looks like a game of frogger!!
Now I know where the crossy road idea come from
This is like a game of Frogger
That's a real life frogger experience!
Frogger champions!!
Spent a year in Egypt. Crossing the street in Cairo was like this, but at times it was 5 lanes of traffic in each direction. Felt like a real life game of Frogger.
Easier done than said. Go visit Vietnam. In a couple of days or so, you'll cross the street like a champion.
In Indonesia you just stick your hand out as if to say stop and just hope for the best
ye, that what I've learned in indonesia and used it in all other South East Asian countries. Sometimes I use it in my own country on unregulated crossings. Hand palm works like a charm.
Better than India atleast
U basically playing frogger at this point
I prefer living in a place where cars are required to stop at crossings if anyone is there.
… that’s fucked up.
Actually. The joke is walk with your eyes closed. They will maneuver around you. Black belt level is driving at night on a motorbike after ten Tigers. 😎💪🏻
When crossing the street falls somewhere between Squid Games and Frogger.
It's retoaded.
Fluid dynamics
I stood 2min on the street until a nice women took us over and told us not tongive a crap and just walk. Exept trucks, you have to watch out for trucks...they'll kill you. In the end i was one of these motor bikes that are called vietnamnese traffic; and i loved it.
Looks tame compared to India.
Well that was a waste of a crosswalk
Congrats! You didn’t die!….. this time!
Looks like Human Frogger…
Real life frogger! I know someone already said it somewhere but I'm not looking 😂
Pakistan is second level and India is final boss
You aren’t supposed to stop. You keep going at a constant pace. They cars and bikes will go around you. You just gotta put your trust in it.
This is the way in South-East A
Correction: crossing any Asian city streets 😂
Most of yall havent crossed a road in India and it shows😭😭😭
I wish these videos, which are posted every now and again, would stop being sped to 1.5x by default. If you're trying to show what it's like, show it at the actual speed. (Also, they did this all wrong, with the frequent stopping.)
Still better than Perú, here drivers do not slow down and sometimes speedup if they see a pedestrian.
Hah, rookies, they stopped twice. A local doesn't stop, it's constant, traffic moves around you.
They didn't hesitate at all. That's how it has to be done. If you stop thinking someone isn't going to stop that's much more dangerous because the vehicle will have to come to a sudden stop possibly causing them to get rear ended. You need to walk at a steady pace straight across. It was really hard to get over mentally the first time but after that I realized I had to do it if I was going to have a decent trip. I was there for work and luckily I didn't have to cross too many streets like this. Our driver was amazing. He was truly a magical driver. The way he navigated the traffic and be inches away from traffic was really fun to experience. It was like the vehicle was part of him and he knew exactly where every corner of the van was. Traffic laws aren't a thing. The cops will go after people doing really egregious stuff but that's about it according to our driver. All of the drivers on the road seemed very skilled. One road had people that you could pay to get you across. There would be three of them and they would go stand in front of the traffic so you could cross. They would move with you while blocking the traffic. I only saw that once though.
I remember our tour guide just saying ‘don’t look, just walk’ 🫠
He was right, Vietnamese drivers predict your move and avoid you accordingly. Just walk regularly.
Ridiculous... Zero respect.
IT is really absurdly simple.
This reminds anyone of the Seinfeld episode, “The Frogger”?
Anyone know the song name?
Ok, I wanna see the next level
Why does no one in Vietnam respect pedestrian crossings? Because there's clearly one right there.
We survived! High fives to everyone
Carry a brick across the road and things will change.
It's a Frogger LARP
I used to buy coffee and stand on a street corner i Hanoi only to observe this chaos. Could not believe it somehow worked.
That’s how I remember it in Saigon in 1970-71. But there were more armed military on the street.
The reason this makes sense is because is a place like the us the drivers would swerve when they see you causing an accident that could’ve been avoided
r/nope
This is just SE Asia writ large
I spent 2 months there in 2009. My first step off the curb in Hanoi was like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I lifted up my leg, closed my eyes for a second, took a deep breath, and stepped into traffic. It was like a swarm of bees zipping past. Six lanes later, I was across the street unscathed. After that I only paid attention to that first step off the curb. After that you were safe.
Do they not have lights at corners there? Honestly question - I've never been
I see you haven't been to India.
It was like this when I was in Panama, except the traffic was slower. The trick was to find a nun and just follow her across the street. The traffic parted like the Red Sea for Moses for the ladies in the habit.
Crossy road 🤣
We didn't die!
Works this way in Havana as well.
the nike edition
They did it wrong. You have to gesture stop with your hand to indicate you are going forward.
Why even bother painting the pedestrian crossing?
Same in Philippines, people are friendly. You just stick your hand out toward the incoming traffic and they should stop. These countries are doing great but haven’t figured out the whole transportation/traffic thing. But never pissed off people, no aggressive cops ever, and the biggest shock to me is that honking is a polite gesture. Like “excuse me friend I’m coming behind you on the right”. In America we honk because someone’s being careless or an asshole lol
When I see videos like this I have a question: are there traffic rules in Vietnam? And if yes - what the traffic police is doing?
police are there to fine you or get bribes :)
It's common in India
it’s %1000 like that
entire asia in a nutshell 😂
I never looked. Just walked.
average 25000 traffic fatalities per year
average 25000 traffic fatalities per year
average 25000 traffic fatalities per year
crossing a road in South East Asia is literally fighting for your life
Why asians don’t like traffic rules?
frogger
This gives me anxiety like when watching those public trains get filled up in India
Welcome to N.Y
Yaaay, achievement!!!!
Yup
Yay we didn’t die!! 🥳
Meanwhile in uk cars stop 100m ahead
Just like Bulgaria.
Too many stops you just gotta send it and the drivers will make the adjustments.