Crazy Indian drivers
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OMFG! Nish, Vik and the rest of you; You are freakin nuts[^]. :-D Nish, is this how you drive in Canada? regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Clearly, you've never driven in midtown Manhatten... :-D Christopher Duncan Practical Strategy Consulting Author of The Career Programmer Unite the Tribes
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Far lower than in North America. Because there are no rules, everyone's careful about their vehicles.
Wow. Of course, in the US people probably want to get into wrecks just so they can sue. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
Nah! ... its just that almost anyone can get a license :)
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Kant wrote:
The accidents usually happen during night time due to drunken drivers.
Usually truck drivers - they are invariably guaranteed to be drunk. I wonder why the cops don't do anything about it. Regards, Nish
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The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Usually truck drivers - they are invariably guaranteed to be drunk. I wonder why the cops don't do anything about it.
They do ... the accept bribe;P
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
One method that would seem to be much better to fill seats up on aircraft is to fill up from the window seats to the aisle seats
Good idea except that couples wouldn't want to be boarding at different times. Mothers with children neither. You'd also get people hassling with the overhead storage, trying to get their bag next to their wife's/husband's etc.
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
BTW, I saw a documentary on Channel 4 a few weeks back about safety on board Ryan Air flights. I sold my shares and refuse to use them.
Really? Are there any web reports on their safety? I'd think they were checked by the airline associations often enough? regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul Watson wrote:
Really? Are there any web reports on their safety? I'd think they were checked by the airline associations often enough?
Dispatches Documentary Raises Safety Concerns at Ryanair[^] Ryanair draws first blood in battle over pilots' web attack[^]
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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Paul Watson wrote:
What is the road accident rate like in India?
Far lower than in North America. Because there are no rules, everyone's careful about their vehicles. Also, there's no such thing as comprehensive insurance (we do take comprehensive and 3rd party insurance, but in practice they are not so), so if you crash your car, you pay for it. That makes people even more careful. Regards, Nish
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The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Far lower than in North America.
How do you calculate it? Per number of registered cars, per distance travelled, per time spent in traffic? Plus you have the rate of mortality per number of accidents... Not all statistics would tell you the same thing. I rememer reading somewhere the US was leading by far in the rate of accidents, but it is largely to do with the fact that people are doing a lot more travel. The "unnatural" figures were Greece and Portugal, close to the US figures and twice the European average. As someone that drove through Greece I can fully understand why. OGR
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OMFG! Nish, Vik and the rest of you; You are freakin nuts[^]. :-D Nish, is this how you drive in Canada? regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
....if you drive any better you are sure to get hit ;P I've been driving for the last five years on my 'gearless' kinetic honda and the traffic (almost) seems to have doubled in volume every year and it's just Bangalore!! And you will not believe the three wheeler taxi's here(We call them auto rikshaw). They drive...... to kill!! *SHUDDER* And yeah when the traffic signal goes from green to amber.... No you idiot you don't *SLOW* down you hit the pedal so that you can scrape through just before the red light gets you!! :doh:. And I'm still ALIVE!! ;P ---------------------------------------------- If you need a hammer get C and shut up. If you need a nail gun get C++ and shut up. If you don't need *those* things (and good design should tell you) then by all means get a factory, factory, factory. --code-frog@codeproject
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Paul Watson wrote:
Nobody was going particularly fast in that video. How long does it take to travel an equivalent distance say down a city street in India vs. the U.S.?
at 25mph or 75mph at the same intersection in the states? ;) although rare (at any one time), it is still not uncommon to catch at least one person a day going 75 in a 35mph zone through here. Traffic signal meanings have changed over the years, currently: Green means go, Red means stop only if someone else is already moving, and yellow means you're entered into Nascar, behave accordingly. If traffic is stopped at a green light, but there is room in a turning lane, go around them, no need to find out why they stopped. Two or three Police have had to escort ambulences in some regions of NM because the police must block the intersections so that people will not dodge stopped traffic and enter intersections striking the ambulance at extremely high speeds. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 15:24 Tuesday 18th April, 2006
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
and yellow means you're entered into Nascar, behave accordingly.
:laugh: Crazy, but funny. Here in Ireland we get boy racers doing 70mph down narrow farm roads in Honda Civics and Vauxhall Novas. They usually careen around a corner and end up merging with some farm machinery. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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OMFG! Nish, Vik and the rest of you; You are freakin nuts[^]. :-D Nish, is this how you drive in Canada? regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul, you notice there are no lane markings on the roads. That is because the lanes are dynamically configured by each driver. You know how adaptive systems are so much better than static systems. Indians have evolved the ultimate adaptive system for road traffic! PS. I usually let a driver take me places in India. I also engross myself in reading the newspaper. That spares me heart attacks!
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Paul Watson wrote:
Really? Are there any web reports on their safety? I'd think they were checked by the airline associations often enough?
Dispatches Documentary Raises Safety Concerns at Ryanair[^] Ryanair draws first blood in battle over pilots' web attack[^]
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
Thanks, some interesting points though some are just media rubbish (the vomit one for instance isn't pleasant but the plane isn't going to blow up because of it. Why even bother mentioning it. I'll bet it happens on every airline.) I'll have to weigh up the risks with the benefits, see if anything more comes of the Dispatch programme. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Paul, you notice there are no lane markings on the roads. That is because the lanes are dynamically configured by each driver. You know how adaptive systems are so much better than static systems. Indians have evolved the ultimate adaptive system for road traffic! PS. I usually let a driver take me places in India. I also engross myself in reading the newspaper. That spares me heart attacks!
Vivic wrote:
I also engross myself in reading the newspaper
Crikey moses. You read the newspaper while driving your car in that traffic? :omg: ;) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Thanks, some interesting points though some are just media rubbish (the vomit one for instance isn't pleasant but the plane isn't going to blow up because of it. Why even bother mentioning it. I'll bet it happens on every airline.) I'll have to weigh up the risks with the benefits, see if anything more comes of the Dispatch programme. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul Watson wrote:
the vomit one for instance isn't pleasant but the plane isn't going to blow up because of it. Why even bother mentioning it. I'll bet it happens on every airline
The point made in the programme was that other airlines actually clean it up rather than spray aftershave over it. The reason being is that RyanAir just don't give their staff the time to deal with small unexpected things like this so they are glossed over rather than dealt with.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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Paul Watson wrote:
the vomit one for instance isn't pleasant but the plane isn't going to blow up because of it. Why even bother mentioning it. I'll bet it happens on every airline
The point made in the programme was that other airlines actually clean it up rather than spray aftershave over it. The reason being is that RyanAir just don't give their staff the time to deal with small unexpected things like this so they are glossed over rather than dealt with.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
Sure, RyanAir is cutting corners but I am dead certain the trivial problems, like the vomit, happen on other airlines. It is a human nature problem not a RyanAir problem. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
and yellow means you're entered into Nascar, behave accordingly.
:laugh: Crazy, but funny. Here in Ireland we get boy racers doing 70mph down narrow farm roads in Honda Civics and Vauxhall Novas. They usually careen around a corner and end up merging with some farm machinery. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul Watson wrote:
Here in Ireland we get boy racers doing 70mph down narrow farm roads in Honda Civics and Vauxhall Novas. They usually careen around a corner and end up merging with some farm machinery.
that's what happens in the farming communities surrounding Las Cruces, it has a rather large farming community. Here, it's cattle country. Of course there is always those who try to merge with a deer, oryx, or antelope. Although lighter than farming machinery, the results are often as spectacular. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)