Taiwan is LOUD (compared to Europe) & drivers can only be as bad as the roads let them

[Marco]

I force cars to stop.

[Furious000]

How many times have you been hit?

[Gain]

Some cities in Europe are very loud.

[Furious000]

But they are more beautiful.

[MikeN1]

@fonserbc

HAHAHA actually I think I’m one of the most confident crosswalkers I know here.
Whenever I walk with taiwanese people they always shout at me and try to stop me when a car tries to cross and step through the zebra crossing that I’m walking on, WHILE I’m walking on it.

Nobody wants to hit a foreigner because of the bad publicity and extra paperwork.

@bingobango

I really hate how gratingly loud the scooters can be here.

Don’t worry, they’ll soon be able to afford to upgrade to cars with loud exhausts and engines and stereos blasting rap music- a lot of them already have.

[Dr_Milker]

@MikeN1

Don’t worry, they’ll soon be able to afford to upgrade to cars with loud exhausts and engines and stereos blasting rap music- a lot of them already have.

If only they blasted rap music. It’s almost always mind-numbing EDM…

[fonserbc]

Yeah… some admin/moderator/user-with-power added the (compared to Europe) at the end of the title topic, and I repositioned it to the middle of the title, because I thought it made more sense.
It was not supposed to be a comparative post though, at least not further than the videos compare the Netherlands to other places.
Maybe we can remove that again.

[Andrew0409]

I honestly don’t feel unsafe walking around in Taiwan. In Europe I worry about getting stabbed and robbed. Or another terrorist attack from the religion of peace.

[Gain]

@Andrew0409

In Europe I worry about getting stabbed and robbed.

You wouldn’t be stabbed.

[Marco]

@Furious000

How many times have you been hit?

Big fat 0.

[Belgian_Pie]

@fonserbc

Maybe we can remove that again.

You hope? Or you wish? Maybe you can try to command? Have a vote?

[Furious000]

How many near misses?

[Marco]

I walk confidently. Scooters know to go around me. Cars know to avoid a lawsuit. I am predictable. I just let them brake up to me and I cold stare 'em in the face.

I got into a spat with a driver that wanted to run an all way stop. Told me to go fuck myself for making him stop while I was crossing and attempted to spit on me.

But misses are incredibly rare and none of them with enough novelty to actually bother remembering them.

I know where the cars around me are and I lock gazes with anyone approaching me.

[Andrew0409]

@Furious000

How many near misses?

For me, 0.

I think if you’re used to walking around Europe without any awareness of traffic. You’d feel like there’s a bunch of near misses because you weren’t being aware.

[Marco]

Yeah. The stroads in Canada and the US are particularly unforgiving to pedestrians. While drivers are not nearly as lawless, the stroad design supports high speeds and is unforgiving to pedestrians. Especially with the entitled cyclists in Toronto.

[afterspivak]

@Furious000

The worst I’ve experienced so far is in Taichung.

I would meet your Taichung, and raise you a Taoyuan!

Guy

[Furious000]

@Marco

I walk confidently. Scooters know to go around me. Cars know to avoid a lawsuit. I am predictable. I just let them brake up to me and I cold stare 'em in the face.

Walking on a dedicated foot party would avoid these issues you raise.

[Furious000]

Never been.

[afterspivak]

Other formosans may fill you in on some of the joys of being a pedestrians there (i.e. in Taoyuan).

Guy

[Furious000]

@Andrew0409

I think if you’re used to walking around Europe without any awareness of traffic. You’d feel like there’s a bunch of near misses because you weren’t being aware.

I grew up with dedicated pedestrian footpaths. It was eye watering the first time walking in Taipei . Heart in mouth situation.