Went out today … 30 minutes to film children not wearing a helmet on a scooter …
The sound track is Belgian … Dutch (Flemish)
Very good vid BP. And that sound track is amazing.
Wie sing op die video?
Urbanus, vroeger genaamd ‘Urbanus van Anus’ … dit was zijn artiestennaam, cabaretier
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This is a video I just finished called “Red Light, Green Light”.
It’s taken me the best part of three weeks in all to get most of it edited and shot, and I have included some interesting statistics for people to check out.
Please take a look. I know it’s 200mb to download and I did try it on Google video, but the quality was too poor to make out the words within. I do hope that it gets its message across! Please pass it on if you can.
Good work you two! 
Thank you very much. I’m happy that you took the time to watch it.
The soundtrack, by the way is Enigma of course, containing a solo by a member of the Amei tribe, who is mentioned in the end credit.
[quote=“sulavaca”]http://altonsworld.com/Traffic_video/
This is a video I just finished called “Red Light, Green Light”.
It’s taken me the best part of three weeks in all to get most of it edited and shot, and I have included some interesting statistics for people to check out.
Please take a look. I know it’s 200mb to download and I did try it on Google video, but the quality was too poor to make out the words within. I do hope that it gets its message across! Please pass it on if you can.[/quote]
Great job with your video. Very nicely made. Unfortunately, I think the large file size might put a lot of people off watching it. It seems that the resolution used for the video is unnecessarily large, with only your introductory splash screen taking advantage of the full resolution, and the main part of the movie using perhaps only 1/4 of the area. If you could shrink the total resolution of your file down to what is being used in the main part of the movie, your download would be considerably smaller. Perhaps between 50-75 MB instead of the 200 MB that it is now. You would probably get a lot more viewers that way, too. Also, if you were to upload it to Google video, the words could appear bigger instead of being shrunk so much since you wouldn’t have so much black space around the video.
This is just technical nitpicking, and this criticism is given only to help you share this video as much as possible. As for the content of your movie, very well done indeed. Traffic safety is one of the single worst things about Taiwan, and it makes me fearful for my children growing up here. Hopefully this problem can improve over time, but I’m not going to bet on it.
Is it illegal for children to ride on a bike without a helmet. I assume yes.
I also assume that on a motorbike, you should only have one rider and one pillion passenger.
Then it comes down to enforcement of laws… which seems to be at its own choosing in Taiwan
[quote=“TNT”]Is it illegal for children to ride on a bike without a helmet. I assume yes.
I also assume that on a motorbike, you should only have one rider and one pillion passenger.
Then it comes down to enforcement of laws… which seems to be at its own choosing in Taiwan[/quote]
Why not report the next guy who drives drunk/3 people on a scooter/no helmet to whoever that cares… if there is any. I read about scooter deaths all the time I just wonder why no one ever learned?
[quote=“rahimiiii”]Why not report the next guy who drives drunk/3 people on a scooter/no helmet to whoever that cares… if there is any. I read about scooter deaths all the time I just wonder why no one ever learned?[/quote]I point it out to “policemen” standing around with nothing else to do, they just shrug and say “This is Taiwan”. That would make a good segment too, film of “policemen” ignoring law breakers.
[quote=“rahimiiii”][quote=“TNT”]Is it illegal for children to ride on a bike without a helmet. I assume yes.
I also assume that on a motorbike, you should only have one rider and one pillion passenger.
Then it comes down to enforcement of laws… which seems to be at its own choosing in Taiwan[/quote]
Why not report the next guy who drives drunk/3 people on a scooter/no helmet to whoever that cares… if there is any. I read about scooter deaths all the time I just wonder why no one ever learned?[/quote]
Because they are gamblers, have no common sense and are so naive, thinking they are save drivers and that it can only happen to others … oh, and they go pray a lot and probably have a good luck charm tucked away somewhere.
[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]That would make a good segment too, film of “policemen” ignoring law breakers.[/quote]A good opportunity would be those stations they have set up now to engrave security numbers onto scooter panels. They are fixed locatations, and the cops there focus only on that task, ignoring all the double-parking and red light running going on around them.
Better yet, film the cops breaking the law themselves. I don’t know about your neighborhood, but around here you see them riding their scooters the wrong way up one-way streets all the time.
[quote=“redwagon”]Better yet, film the cops breaking the law themselves. I don’t know about your neighborhood, but around here you see them riding their scooters the wrong way up one-way streets all the time.[/quote]That’s easily done too, if I carried a camera around with me.
Yes very good but im starting to wonder whats the point of documenting such stuff on boards here where we already know how bad somethings are. I mean as mentioned above, no-one cares in Taiwan or they dont care enough to do anything about it. Seeing kids on scooters with no helmets is just pathetic. I wish there was actually a better way to get such pictures/ideas out into Taiwan/a broader audience instead of keeping them restricted here or to a crowd who already knows what its like etc.
I think the idea is to blitz youtube with stuff like this until Taiwan is internationally famous as the home of bad drivers and useless cops. The shame will either trigger the powers-that-be into doing something about that, or there will be a huge crackdown on foreigners ‘engaging in activities inconsistent with their visa status’ or somesuch. 
We will start to need a special visa for video recording.
Why not make a video thumbnail, note the street and make it into poster. Feel free to make a header - the nastier the better. Post it on every police station, TV station and mayor’s office you can find in the dead of the night. That will differentiate you between those that make videos / pictures / comments simply for the sake of ridiculing Taiwan due to deep-setaed hatred or inferiority complex of which there are a lot here in this forum, and those that sincerely care about improving the situation.
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I wish there was actually a better way to get such pictures/ideas out into Taiwan/a broader audience instead of keeping them restricted here or to a crowd who already knows what its like etc.[/quote]
Unfortnately I don’t think showing videos like that to the Taiwanese would make a bit of difference. They see the same thing every time they step onto the street. Perhaps if there were a video that showed the aftermath not wearing a helmet when scooters hit the road it may actually register. Then again it may be just chalked up to those folks not praying at the right temple.
Is there any group n Taiwan that promotes children wearing helmets? I have never seen a poster or any add suggesting that people put helmets on their kids. Are they out there?
whenever i see this, i ride alongside and tell the kids that their mother (or whomever is riding) does not love them… or sing them the little song “no helmet, no head”.
and normally they look at me like i am an alien (which i can prove, i have a little green card that says so)
hopefully i am planting a little seed in the kid’s brain so that one day they will finally question their mum as to why they don’t show they love them by putting a helmet on their head… but it really is pushing shit uphill with a sharp pointy stick. in the end, i just have to go home and hope it is themselves they injure WHEN and not IF they have a crash, and not somebody else. you can lead a horse to water…
i did have a good chuckle once at someone who fell off his bike shortly after i had pointed something similar out to him. fortunately not too much blood. all i could say was “you deserved it…”