Crazy Indian drivers
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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)