Comments on: India on the road http://www.overthecounterculture.com/2008/india-on-the-road/ Staring at the sun Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:17:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Taylor Davidson http://www.overthecounterculture.com/2008/india-on-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Taylor Davidson Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:02:33 +0000 http://www.overthecounterculture.com/?p=263#comment-444 "The same is true of junctions - even if he wants to take the next left, the average Indian driver will still pass whoever is in front of him. This completed, he will proceed to slam on the brakes (causing all traffic behind him to slow to his selected turning-off speed, piling up), honk and veer left."<br><br>Want to know why? The average Indian driver is taught to only pay attention to what is in front of them; anything behind them is someone else's problem. Knowing that, thinking about the efficiency of what happens to drivers behind them isn't really a concern. Standard prisoner's dilemma behaviour... <br><br>That's what I was taught by friends while I spent a couple months in India this past winter... “The same is true of junctions – even if he wants to take the next left, the average Indian driver will still pass whoever is in front of him. This completed, he will proceed to slam on the brakes (causing all traffic behind him to slow to his selected turning-off speed, piling up), honk and veer left.”

Want to know why? The average Indian driver is taught to only pay attention to what is in front of them; anything behind them is someone else's problem. Knowing that, thinking about the efficiency of what happens to drivers behind them isn't really a concern. Standard prisoner's dilemma behaviour…

That's what I was taught by friends while I spent a couple months in India this past winter…

]]> By: Taylor Davidson http://www.overthecounterculture.com/2008/india-on-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Taylor Davidson Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:02:33 +0000 http://www.overthecounterculture.com/?p=263#comment-343 "The same is true of junctions - even if he wants to take the next left, the average Indian driver will still pass whoever is in front of him. This completed, he will proceed to slam on the brakes (causing all traffic behind him to slow to his selected turning-off speed, piling up), honk and veer left."<br><br>Want to know why? The average Indian driver is taught to only pay attention to what is in front of them; anything behind them is someone else's problem. Knowing that, thinking about the efficiency of what happens to drivers behind them isn't really a concern. Standard prisoner's dilemma behaviour... <br><br>That's what I was taught by friends while I spent a couple months in India this past winter... “The same is true of junctions – even if he wants to take the next left, the average Indian driver will still pass whoever is in front of him. This completed, he will proceed to slam on the brakes (causing all traffic behind him to slow to his selected turning-off speed, piling up), honk and veer left.”

Want to know why? The average Indian driver is taught to only pay attention to what is in front of them; anything behind them is someone else's problem. Knowing that, thinking about the efficiency of what happens to drivers behind them isn't really a concern. Standard prisoner's dilemma behaviour…

That's what I was taught by friends while I spent a couple months in India this past winter…

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