Is it from shows like this, or from how people drive in Taiwan, Hong Kong and rest of Asia. Had afternoon tea with a friend visited USA (Salt Lake and Calagary)/ Canada (Vancouver) and they said this when she drove.
But really, people from Asia are safer drivers there.
I got bored at about a minute and a half of the second video. The first I have seen many times.
Spend some time driving in Asian countries like India and Taiwan, then spend some time driving in some western countries like Canada and Germany.
Because I have an idea of where that video is going, I’ll just say the following: the Asian woman in the Family Guy video who doesn’t signal and cuts across all those lanes she doesn’t crash herself. It’s all the other people who weren’t expecting that who have accidents.
I love that video, was it New Zealand, where the police officer was following a Taiwanese driver basically from the airport where the rental car was picked up for quite some time before the car was confiscated and the driver was not allowed to drive in New Zealand anymore
Why do you think there are traffic lights on the roundabouts in Taiwan, do you think it’s because the people are good drivers?
In my experience it’s common for Taiwanese drivers to continuously pump the gas pedal for no reason whatsoever. Some cases are so extreme it makes me feel like blowing chunks. I call them lurchers. I asked my wife why they do it and she said she had no clue.
Because in places like Taiwan, you would not drive if you’re not a high skill/ high confidence driver. And you don’t need to.
In the US, you have to drive. So a lot of the people who can’t drive in Asia will drive in the US.
The US just has a lot of bad drivers who benefit from easy wide roads, intersections instead of round abouts, and big parking spaces.
Confidence yes, there is a lot of that. Doesn’t make people good drivers, quite the opposite
Yours is the Chinese perspective. I literally heard it from my first boss in China (PRC, not ROC): Chinese people are the best drivers in the world, they have to be because the roads are so dangerous
Again, roundabouts. These are objectively more efficient than traffic lights all else being equal. But in Taiwan there are usually lights at intersections including roundabouts. Do you think the reason is high skill, high confidence, or something else?
Watch the whole second video, you will see Asians and Women are by far the safest drivers.
The guy makes lots of videos about un spoken topics
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Taiwanese Taxi drivers are notoriously pumping the gas pedal, one guy explained the reason to me… according to some old superstition it will use less petrol if pumping the gas pedal instead of keeping it steady 
Also why some turns off their headlights when at a red light as that uses petrol too 
Wat? I don’t think that.
I do see that in places like Taiwan, it’s tighter with more condense traffic. I would imagine a typical US driver might have some trouble parking in Taiwan compared to large parking spots that fit their 3 row SUVs easily.
I’m guessing your basis of skill is things like safety and western etiquette. I’m talking about actual skills in controlling the vehicle. I didn’t say people in Taiwan are safer drivers. It’s just that the conditions require actual skills with the car.
Asian Americans or Asians. Because any differences that exist I would argue are not racial but cultural. Racially I don’t see any reason why there would be any difference, it’s culture that’s the issue.
Women is another topic, here I would argue for biological differences. And the same with age.
I was just starting to make a left turn (signal on) in Taipei traffic one day when a scooter barreling down the wrong side of the road slammed into the left side of my car and went flying. When the rider came to a few minutes later he apologized and said that was just the way he drove. The kicker was the Taiwanese passengers in my car said it was my fault because I should have been watching in my left side mirror for scooter riders barreling down the wrong side of the road even though it was a blind curve. They weren’t swayed by my argument that my responsibility was to watch oncoming traffic to make sure the coast was clear for a left turn. I sold my car soon afterward because I realized I would never be able to figure out the ways of Taiwan traffic.
Taiwanese drivers are so good. A lot of them don’t bother to turn those lights back on when the sun goes down.
Yeah, that’s because the people are bad drivers. In Taiwan, I would try to leave a appropriate amount of space between me and the vehicle in front of me and inevitably somebody would cut into that space if there was enough room for their vehicle, sometimes even if there wasn’t enough room for their vehicle, they would still cut in front of me. Combine that with the lack of competent engineers in Taiwan design designing the road systems.
Definitely things like knowing how to use turning indicators or stopping at stop. Signs are a part of it. Yes.
But in terms of basic ability to control the vehicle, why don’t you check out the traffic thread and see how many people are slamming their vehicles into pedestrian Islands, or other things. If you spend a lot of time driving around Taiwan, you might see that most people have difficulty staying in between the lions. It’s not because they’re good at controlling the vehicle in a corner.
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I feel like we had this conversation about driving before.
For me, I find it extremely easy to drive in Taiwan. I understand the rules and I’m comfortable with it. Never had an issue with bad driving.
But then again, I find it easy to drive in most places once I get used it, even switching from left to right hand drive.
Some HS girl in the US who got her license at 16 automatically she took drivers Ed at 15 in the US scares me personally more than anything I’ve seen in Taiwan.
It’s by race. Asians 1/3 safer, the the norm, more so than the two most dangerous races, the stats on the video.
Well, I never drove in India but take you word its bad. I think Taiwan is good, Japan and Europe better.
Is THAT the reason?! I’ve wondered before about the shockingly high percentage of drivers here who simply don’t know how to control the vehicle. Never mind awareness of the road and other people on it.
It is interesting that the only people defending Taiwanese drivers on this thread are Taiwanese people
I don’t believe it’s racial. I’ve never been to Japan, but I can believe that the Japanese are very good drivers, despite them being Asian. So being Asian racially I think isn’t the issue. Being Chinese culturally on the other hand….
What makes people good drivers is knowing the purpose of having car transportation is to get EVERYONE safely to their destination efficiently. People who designed the roads and traffic signs should know that. People behind the wheels should know that. Placing yourself getting to your destination first over others because you are a “more skilled driver” is what makes Asian traffic terrible.