One of my biggest pet peeves about living in Taiwan is how drivers always fail to yield to pedestrians at a crosswalk when they are making a turn. This must cause hundreds of accidents a year in Taiwan, all of which are preventable. Per the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act of the Republic of…

Well here’s an update regarding tinted windows…the MOTC is ridiculous. Vehicles that already have tinted windows that fail to meet the new standards will not be required to be removed of replaced with compliant tints when the new regulations come into effect. Only newly installed tints must be com…

It is basically the same like allowing the tinted windows.

[image] lunlan: Are the police supposed to stop almost every single car on the road and investigate when you had the tint installed? Taxi’s are not supposed to have any tints so would be extremely easy for the police to stop and fine, if they were bothered. The number of tinted taxi’s driving…

Driver who hit and killed a Japanese tourist on a sidewalk a few months ago in Kaohsiung has been indicted for negligent homicide. The driver claims he got nervous because he saw a police officer direction traffic and lost control of his vehicle which caused him to veer onto the sidewalk and hit th…

[image] lunlan: he got nervous because he saw a police officer direction traffic and lost control of his vehicle which caused him to veer onto the sidewalk and hit the pedestrian… Is there a way to add a slap to the forehead emoji to our choices?

You can suggest it here: [image] Emoji requests Feedback Good suggestion, but that version looks far too sober. It’s also missing a cigarette.

Some pictures I found shared online. Hsinchu sidewalk: [493534641_3495209427441805_7329318509383543296_n] [495375389_3495209434108471_1672803860970357306_n] Taichung sidewalk. This spot I know. This is a new sidewalk, only a couple months old. Often have cars illegally parked here next to t…

[image] lunlan: The Japanese tourist has died from her injuries after 16 days… Driver seems to be facing a negligent death charge and is out on bail (NT$60,000). An update on this 2025 Kaohsiung Incident: the Taiwan driver who killed a Japanese pedestrian has been indicted for negligent homo…

[image] afterspivak: An update Do keep up. [image] lunlan: Driver who hit and killed a Japanese tourist on a sidewalk a few months ago in Kaohsiung has been indicted for negligent homicide. The driver claims he got nervous because he saw a police officer direction traffic and lost contro…

My bad. But not as bad as that old guy’s driving. :sob: Guy

How do we make drivers yield to pedestrians at crosswalks?

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