Driving in China - 2014 (1)

[@BDOYR]

You have to switch to another mode while driving in China, otherwise you will always be stuck in the same place for hours...

[@mike4ty4]

Yep - just as in the interpersonal queues, you have to assert yourself more or they will just keep filing by.

[@casmatori]

The organized chaos kind of works there though. I love all the different types of cars too. There's a mixture of everything, American, European, Japanese, Korean, Chinese.. it's very diverse. I liked this video!

[@NewBuildmini]

This video makes me glad that I was born and still live in Russia, where the drivers are more disciplined than in China. Of course these kinds of drivers still exist, but they're more of an exception.

[@DaltonHBrown]

GTA VI should be set here with the citizens driving like this.

[@ravebleach85]

I was recently in China and I have experienced this for real. Drivers in China disregard rules and the traffic signs. Traffic there is chaotic. Motorcycle and bicycle riders are even worst. They completely disregard the traffic signs and just plunge through red lights and crowds of people. I really can't drive in China.

[@lemon4400]

Wow. Watching that traffic was terrifying, it makes Richmond drivers seem like China's cream of the crop of drivers

[@str8rippon]

You know you could have just gone to Richmond instead of going to china

[@cheesetoast99]

This looks like Richmond x10.

[@AkyraTheWolf]

Where's richmond

[@cheesetoast99]

AkyraTheWolf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_British_Columbia

[@AkyraTheWolf]

oh shit another BC'er :D

[@livefreeordiehard8898]

Lol

[@scientificallyobsessed938]

Why does China put lines on the streets in the first place?

[@mike4ty4]

Rules are not treated as absolute but that doesn't mean they aren't treated at all - you can still see in many instances that the traffic groups to the lanes.

[@zephyrmj]

The bus going over double lines and 'running the red' is kind of ok because they can do right turns on red but going over double lines!??

[@crabnebula9181]

a big 70's cadillac with bad paint would be the way to go just scrape by everyone and push them lil carsz outta the way

[@derekhd]

Richmond is becoming a lot more clearer now.

[@bril2231]

okay i already see where this video is going. people in suva and vans plow thru traffic while pedestrians are literally running for their lives. its every man for themselves, no one yields, no one follows any form of "traffic laws", there must be at least an accident every 5 mins. hey sups, this compilation is very awesome and i truly appreciate your time and effort into making these videos for us. love them. china is kind of like driving out of my high school student parking lot after school. :-)

[@CPWindsorsub]

I'm speechless. The traffic cops must have a field day over there.

[@yeswekey]

04:02 why are you waiting 15m before the stopline?

[@DashCamVancouver]

Wow. And I thought Richmond was bad. If I had to deal with such hardcore idiots on a regular basis I'd lose my mind. Great video, looking forward to the rest!

[@WhenHellBrokeLoose]

its like a whole country of richmond..

[@warnpassion]

This is still so much disciplined than what we have here in India.

[@baloney_sandwich]

Indian worship cows, what do u expect? At least Chinese eats anything that walks.

[@Thepuggleparty]

Massive kek

[@SteveauxDaVinci]

Wow...and I complain about how ppl drive in Tennessee. After seeing this I won't complain anymore

[@lcmark]

Apart from what you've noted in the description, are the driving laws substantially different there from here?! Cuz holy sh*t, there were so many things going wrong all at once in each clip!! The clips starting at 5:14 -- they understand the concept of a contraflow lane. But they don't seem to understand the concept of it being controlled by the authorities...

[@ShadyPyro1990]

Almost looks like Richmond to me!

[@dashcamestonia5557]

Driving in China is quite aggressive and chaotic alright, but honestly it seems to be no worse than Russia, where I drove some 4-5 years ago.

[@HalfBreedMix]

Bus driver at 4:01 - 4:17 should be imprisoned.

[@stevenchen5460]

the traffic rule in China is that if you are turning right in an intersection, you can disregard the traffic signal. This is stupid, but the bus driver in the video 4:09 did not break any rules....

[@theproweb]

I was expecting more chaos, it wasn't that bad. I'm amazed about how many high end cars there are, lots of VW CCs, and only a few chinese-made cars

[@BadDriversOfNewcastle]

The driving in the this video was left me outraged! lol, I think if I moved there I'd drive a scrap heap of a car and if all those turners kept failing to gave way I just would crash into them and confirm they failed to yield. lol. ;-) Great vid.

[@mvanveen4689]

@xSupaD "Bus turns fromthird lane". I don't know what the rules are in your country, but here in The Netherlands busses have priority when they flash their traffic lights, first, second or third lane, it doesn't matter. Although we normally have no third lane in the cities. And the busdriver got his traffic light on. So, don't be surprised when you see it again. Greetings from Amsterdam.

[@grandplans]

I have watched several videos on the traffic in China. What is the purpose of honking the horn? Unless it's to notify other drivers you are there and where you're at? horns honk and vehicles still proceed. LOL! I suppose there may be some sort of order they are used to but it looks like complete pandemonium to me. I have a friend who just arrived in China on a teaching job. He has already viewed a few accidents, a few people getting hit, and he himself as almost been hit several times already. seems like one almost needs a full suit of armor if you are a pedestrian, or a cyclist, or driving one of those scooters. Great video.

[@DutchBicycleCam]

can't wait to see the other video's you made in china

[@GazzaCam]

Guess they drive 'feeling the force' instead of mirror's. Jedi training must be part of their driving test?

[@shanedasm6121]

Gazza Cam Hahahahahahahhhh I live in China,and you're damn right,that's what I wanna say

[@Hochrhein79]

Hi, wonderful. i filmed all my drives too :)

[@ivanf2808]

As an indonesian, i found this pretty normal

[@jameshowardwilliamson5043]

because your country is sh*thole, there's no any driving's rule

[@zixiangjiao3049]

@@jameshowardwilliamson5043 shut up u fucking racist; you r not the Santa!

[@lrn_news9171]

Default 0930 Saying Canada doesn't have a culture is retarded as fuck

[@tc88888888]

doesn't seem too bad at all. Probably better than most other asian, south american, african countries and italy. Man you should go to india, that place has no rules.

[@slurpeej]

I just upload a video just like yours. Driving in China are very difficult. Sometimes you have to put your life on the line. If you can survive then you can drive in any country in the world.

[@accxrddashcam]

It looks so crazy!

[@leeyang1990]

Aggressive mode needed

[@MrTONYTONYM]

I can leave with the chaos as long as everyone slow the heck down, not like here in vancouver where people insisted on speeding even on congested freeways

[@kellyb3211]

Was wondering why no videos...figured all the Vancouver peeps turned into great drivers! ...bwhahahaha

[@stevenchen5460]

Well, the traffic rule in China is that if you are turning right in an intersection, you can disregard the traffic signal. This is stupid, but the bus driver in the video 4:09 did not break any rules....

[@Bobbybeb]

Its like the wild west of driving. If I lived there I would purchase an old diesel truck with push bars front and back.

[@Machiavelli531469]

1:30 ahaha was that you guys giving him the slow clap? :)

[@Nihalum]

u got some serious balls to drive in china

[@joereno955]

If the description read Driving in the Bay Area, I wouldn't have been surprised.

[@eurovisionsongcontestSWZ]

HELLO CHINA FROM GREECE

[@PrimliciousGlock]

Holy crap! I'd totally wear my horn out

[@DevoldoinHD]

Oh fuck that, I'd have been turned into a serial killer already had I driven over there.

[@losblancosjp]

Is it your first time to drive in China? What you have seen there is just normal.

[@46Bax]

They drive pretty well, its pretty crowded there so they change their driving habits in order to keep on going

[@akzebraminer]

46Bax It’s clearly not working since they have the most car accidents...

[@vincentxie3090]

I think the drivers in China should definitely be more careful

[@GreaterTorontoAreaDashcam]

If I didn't pay attention (or read the video description), I'd have thought you were driving in Markham or Richmond Hill... Jokes aside, I'd definitely wear out my horn and have higher blood pressure dealing with these fools.

[@fatjawns3671]

This video makes me want to drive a tank in China straight up

[@stevenmartinez9711]

Nice!!

[@davidmu2443]

This is starting to look a lot more like L.A and New York driving!

[@dudestir127]

Traffic is moving too fast for it to be New York.

[@RxMExS]

Oh my god! Is that just normal for china or is that in the city?

[@AKInc14]

Wow, public transit (buses) are really committed to getting to the next stop!

[@THESONICSPEEDDEMON]

Why are People crossing the road during odd times?

[@kdub9198]

How much is car insurance in China?

[@terencechan2580]

What license plate is that at 0:31 ?

[@hippostalker52]

WJ is armed police. Basically military plate privileges and on a Toyota Crown luxury car go figure.

[@A_guan]

Is it me or are drivers in china more careless then people in the US/Canada? Because i haven't been to china for a LONG time

[@jeancharles2009]

That’s an impossible mission to me.

[@kriptonleo]

I thought Mexico was a hell on driving, hell I was wrong

[@franekdolas7017]

what's the name of the city you drive?

[@seanl2576]

Most of the footage was filmed in Dalian, China

[@081908009999]

Shit city

[@sh.osmanov6792]

but why? what's wrong with obeying the rules? do they even have traffic police? what happens when they crash? do they even have to go thru a driver test to get a license? so many questions hah

[@mike4ty4]

They have much better awareness of where they are, which kind of obviates some of the need for strict rules. Americans have the ham-fisted "ME FIRST" road-rage attitude and would make a warzone out of their roads without strict policing. (Horns in the above video are not from pissed people, they are used as normal signals for communicating intent to move and position to other drivers, and people on the street - e.g. since in many cases, esp. on streets where traffic is at low speed you still have people and vehicles intermix, heck even on some of the very broad walkways that are common in these cities it is common that some vehicles will find extra thoroughfare, as well as the presence of many light vehicles like electric bikes and rickshaw; a horn is used to signal to the pedestrians.) If you notice they generally seem to be "feeling out" each other all the time. If everyone is looking out for each other like that you can actually do fairly well. I've heard though it's still not as safe as a really well-disciplined driving regime but the part that shows there's something here is the fact that they can do this all the time and not crash far more often. It really makes one question as to just how many strong rules you really _do_ need for optimum traffic safety (i.e. better than both China and US roads) when you have people who are actually more in tune to each other and one of the things I note about China is that when you're there it really feels like you have a society there, not just a bunch of slaves to the system. Sure strong rules curb abuses but at some point they become rigidity, when life and the Universe are fundamentally dynamic and organic (something more appreciated in the Chinese philosophical outlook than the Western one.). People seemed to laugh and have more fun with each other, they really looked like they enjoyed life more and this is not something of which it seems they are unaware of - e.g. there are words in the Chinese language like ReNao, "Hot Noise", which refers to the sort of lively border-of-chaos of this type in settings related to festivals, parties and gatherings and thus shows that this general spirit is recognized as a real thing. (Though not all Chinese like hot noise! Just as not all Americans like generally accepted things in America.) One of the things I note about the US is the insane readiness to use the court system to handle _all_ disputes which results in many ways in having less freedom for everyone. It's said that Chinese culture favor the rule of man while the European culture favors the rule of law; in my mind the ideal is some balance of the two to curb the excesses of each. You need strong laws to keep the leaders and the powerful of a nation in check, but also room for diplomacy for the everyhuman, the little peep, so as to avoid dehumanizing automatism and awful scenarios like the one I heard of where a judge really wished that he could have expunged a conviction record for someone who made a recognizably valiant effort to turn himself around and said that person would have been more deserving of it than anyone else he'd seen, yet was not allowed to perform that expungement procedure. I think that China really gets poorly represented in the western media and that maybe about 85% of bad press is due to biased and in some cases outright propagandistic, agenda-driven reporting (e.g. the constant harping on "human rights" and how China _never ever_ gets the benefit of the doubt, it's insane. Propaganda really rules the world; every nation on Earth is guilty of it just as they're all guilty of crimes against humanity at some time or another in their histories. It's not good but the point is not to use it as a way to exalt oneself/one's nation above other nations and peoples and thus strum up the conditions for war.), and only 15% due to actual problems in China and even there the actual nature, content and context of those problems is often not well understood by the outsider much less how to do anything to better them that would _genuinely_ help and not cause unintended harm from misguided but well-meaning actions. Be _careful_ to _do the legwork_ before trying to "help" in a foreign country. Make sure you know what the hell is really going on there first. Make sure you really have an idea of the actual problem and what it is really about versus any emotionalizing propaganda pap you may have been fed. (E.g. videos showing Africa as nothing but starving, hungry kids - that is PROPAGANDA. No it doesn't mean there _aren't_ actual starving people but it paints the picture that life across the whole continent is _ALL ABOUT_ starvation and that's just plain not the case and if you want to "help Africa" actually one of the best things you can do is go contribute to the economy. Buy African product, if you have useful jobskills or talent _get a fucking job_ in an African country and work for an African boss as yes the Black Man is yo boss Whitey.) (And here's another one for 'ya. It's true that China's government runs a heavy censorship regime for the Internet and media, but believe it or not Chinese protest things all the time and in fact there are more protest in China than in the US _AND_ when it happens the government officials are _more_ likely to listen, not less. They will wipe the records from the Internet but they will actually do something about the concern. The thing you can't protest for and they won't listen to is demands to overthrow or depose the government, like in favor of "western democracy" which interestingly shows itself to not be so, erm, democratic, in this regard.)

[@xc6603]

@@mike4ty4 Do you live in china?

[@cozyvoyage5142]

THIS IS LIKE GTA IN REAL LIFE

[@turnipkupo7263]

Why do they have such little care for eachother?

[@SiemBroSomBrio]

I felt on a video game

[@tomfreeman6929]

DULL VIDEO! No accidents!

[@marcdufour2726]

Is that in Shenyang?

[@lrn_news9171]

Marc Dufour Dalian I believe

[@Primathys]

Before I watch this video, I give you my greatest condolences for having the balls to drive in China LOL

[@QiuyuanChenRyan916]

If student in class at school time was never allow to think independently then as they went onto the society they just following what others did. In school if someone is following what others did, that is the right way, but on the road that could be disaster. However, education has this ability to lock the way people think so that drivers will keep turning left since someone else did it without yield.

[@snowpeaky]

I think you miss-spelled "Richmond" in the video title...

[@kravesnickers6885]

GTA 6 video game: Chinese Connection, adventure driving in China and India.

[@dcau1]

很有意思！

[@honeybadger1810]

The best jokes write themselves

[@LeagueOfGorillas]

much fun driving then na

[@Acolis]

nice gtr!

[@4cenobia]

I see people like parking their cars wherever

[@seashell8913]

HEy LightS?

[@mytrisvr4]

Random R35 GTR at 0:22

[@TheZombaslaya]

I'm so glad I don't live in china and now I can put driving on the list of reasons. It is utter chaos there, pedestrians walking in the middle of traffic, extreme J walking, passing over a doubble yellow. I would probably need to get a new horn every month because of how much I would use it. AND THESE PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO SURPASS US AS THE LARGEST ECONOMY. YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME.

[@casmatori]

It's not really hard to believe. They have about a billion more people than we do in the US. It actually shows you how poor some people in China actually are if they have a billion more people than we do, and their economy is only just about getting as large as ours. I wonder how China is going to feed and maintain itself when its people start getting more financially stable and more wealthy households start popping up.

[@TheZombaslaya]

Claudía Lisbette Zakrajsek I'm just saying that if people don't know that you don't pass over a double yellow or just walk into traffic any time you want, that shows how careless and ignorant they are of traffic laws. I would think that would carry over into their planning or entrepreneurship.

[@tinderinc]

Therese enough asian people in Canada that we have driving like this going on in BC likes its fucking CHINA WTF!

[@casmatori]

***** Haha. I know what you mean. I went to Vancouver once and it was like Little Nanjing

[@TheZombaslaya]

Claudía Lisbette Zakrajsek My dad is going to Toronto next month to give a paper.

[@Poler777]

Whenever I watch "bad drivers of..." vids, I always think "Try driving in NYC. You wouldn't last a day." But these Chinese drivers might have us beat as far as aggressive city driving. Say what you want about their driving, ...but they CAN handle Manhattan rush hour traffic. I believe that the majority of Chinese drivers aren't so bad, they just disregard rules in favor of expediency.

[@SleepyRickyC92]

lol exactly. There is usually nothing wrong with the skills , it's the complete disregard to road rules that ppl describe as bad. Of course there are still unskilled drivers but it's not the main issue.

[@MuzzaHukka]

0:22 Nissan GT-R look right

[@MetalBro]

+MuzzaHukka there's a second one to the right at 3:34

[@southsidestunnah]

And I thought people in Texas couldn't drive...

[@ceflaco]

I was hopping to see some karatekas

[@RonghuiMrYe]

carzy driving

[@BloodBlight]

Wow, that is some incredibly selfish driving. Wow...

[@tinderinc]

I meet someone from china once you are tough to drive and only think of yourself

[@erikschaepers]

Oh well - looks pretty civilized. Check out "Driving in Russia" ...

[@maxluong2]

its everyone for themselves.

[@单一航-k3j]

***** i feel bad and angry and i cant change it.。 not everyone， but there is alwayz a lot of stupid like fuck drivers。

[@单一航-k3j]

单一航 but this do work out my driving skill。 what a fucking shame way of gaining skill。

[@jameschen2500]

中国的交通就是这样子的吗？请问美国驾照怎么样才能在中国开车?

[@ConnecticutDashcam]

Oh. My. God. And we all thought we have it bad here with all the stupid drivers. holy crap!

[@pauline4539]

yay honking

[@StevenScarn94]

scary knowing all these people in the video need to drive in bc is their chinese drivers license lol

[@clearasvodka]

Yeah it sucks. People here drive like idiots. Most that I see don't deserve to have a drivers license and endanger the safety of other autos and pedestrians alike.

[@maya007_hiro]

Oh! is it GTA???

[@concrete6935]

Airlines hate them and now we find out they do not know how to drive.

[@EnemenyYT]

And i thought my city was full of cars. . .(and people who have no regard for human life)

[@matzacomn]

2:20 english music !!!!

[@mvanveen4689]

And by the way, a few seconds further on the video you've crossed the orange lights when you could have stopped. So, thumbs down for your video.

[@willybbb999]

Not too far off compared to Richmond

[@rickyzhou1245]

These are those kinda poor parts of China where traffic rules do not work.

[@seanl2576]

No it's not, Lol. Dalian actually has better driving than the majority of cities in China. I know what you are talking about though. Those cities are even worse, zero regards for ANY traffic laws.

[@rickyzhou1245]

Well...I mean if you go to Shanghai, the situation would be kinda better but....people should not blame Asian drivers, see, they are so good at cutting off.

[@wasurebachi]

Ricky Zhou 那是大连，不过东北开车都比较猛。不管经济好坏。

[@lrn_news9171]

+Sean L Dalian has better drivers than the majority of cities? I doubt it, it's not a first tier city and it's not that rich compared to many cities, it's not equivalent to a city like Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Dungguan, and of course all the 1st tier cities.

[@lavenderwithlotus]

+not_a_russian Go read some books kid. China have lots of good stuff,the views of cities, cultures, language, foods,music,And GDP. You said all of them are trash??!!

[@salahmhommed2108]

33 that arab stayl 😂😂😂

[@navylaks2]

Atleast they're driving on the correct side of the road the right;) Maybe that's why China has become the worlds new superpower and other Asian countries haven't?:) I just killed myself laughing when i saw the Top gear episode from Burma where their leader changed the driving direction because the country had moved too much to the left politically, and i so wish that the rest of Asia would follow in their footsteps:)

[@c-apsl-ock]

Asian countries are not good places for a car trip except Japan or Singapore I guess

[@superpug666]

looks scary driving overthere.........and talk abot karma for the geen Toyota suv lolll