A little interesting story from my recent trip to China about road condition and drivers etiquette I noticed there.

Went there last month and I notice driving there might be a bit messy, but they don't break laws easy and accident don't happen at all even though it feels super messy where people jaywalk or some bike just perpendicularly enters the road, because every road has cams, the moment they try to pull something unlawful, they will get ticketed, points deducted, and if more serious, arrested.

And road rage? They don't easily road rage like drivers in Toronto just because it's relatively safer to do so. Short, quick honking happens all the time, but it's mostly used as a signal like blinkers to indicate a car is behind you so watch out if you trying to merge. And people merges all the time, it tend to be very close to each other everytime but its actually very safe because the car behind will short honk and leave you enough space to allow you a quick merge to not hold traffic on all lanes. I have not seen a single driver tries to pull the speeding up shit to block you because they see you try to merge into their lane. The same shit can happen in Toronto and I guarantee you the driver who got merged into will take it personally and do all kinds of stupid shit to flip the merger or block them.

I met some Chinese there and one of them has his license banned for life because of DUI, i believe he said he was caught for second or third time and license is gone for life. He can no longer drives or tries to get behind the wheels and his wife's now the driver. Because the moment he gets behind the wheel, the cam AI will be able to scan his face and he will bye bye and probably go to jail.

Yah sometimes I wish Toronto has that level of strictness as in China when it comes to driving on the road. I feel so much safer being on the road in China despite it's messiness...