20th February. Helmet Not Included.

Boasting an engine size of only 50cc. and with a very soft suspension, the Saigon motor-cycle taxi experience may be an option, if you're not too massively Western.

It transpires en-route that red lights really are only for guidance when to use the horn.

The basic rule seems to be that everyone has right of way, all the time and from all directions at once. That is, everyone assumes that everyone else will get out of everyone else's way. A simple working algorithm such as governs the outwardly complex movement of flocks of birds or shoals of fish.

To be fair the motor-cycle taxi men all have use of four limbs but then this gives no clue to the real attrition rate within their profession.

2 comments:

The Snoring Man said...

I seem to remember you using red lights for general guidance only, a mere convention, as some people in Angus may remember.

The Editor said...

That's more a mental disorder thing than a conscious choice, surely?