Originally Posted by maxcichon

Folks, I spent almost a year working in China in the early 80's. The remarkable scenes you just viewed haven't changed significantly in 30 years.

Just a WHOLE lot more motorized vehicles. Some of the craziest ...stuff I've ever seen happened there. No offense intended to my Asian brothers, but it's a well documented fact that the physical limitations of their peripheral vision is to blame. Depending on how squirrel-eyed you are, the average Caucasian has about 230 degrees of vision as opposed to 190 degrees for people of oriental descent. Makes a world of difference when piloting either a car OR a bicycle. And remember-they have only been able to buy a car in the last 10 years. Before that it was pump or walk. They are just not yet able to comprehend the mass/velocity/stopping distance thing.

Give them time. From a safe distance.