The extraordinary road-building of India

[skwdenyer]

Watching this review of the MG Comet EV in India:



don't worry about the car, but just look at the roads! Trees in the middle of carriageways, roads built around pylons, and the usual phalanx of auto-rickshaws, suicidal lane choices, cows, and so on.

I last lived in India in the 1990s. More roads may have been built, but the degree to which life must be taken in hands doesn't seem to have changed a bit!

[essayer]

he's braver than me at 15:40

e: Tesla should do their autopilot testing in India, if it can learn there it can cope anywhere!

[nikaiyo2]

The roads in India are unusual, at best.

This was the best I witnessed, after maybe a 15 lane toll booth find yourself in the wrong lane, just turn at 90 degrees to the traffic and drive across.

[skwdenyer]

For those who don't want to watch the whole thing, here's a still for a flavour. What were the road-builders thinking?!

[iphonedyou]

That's actually mad.