China has built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic

Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by sandebert on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @02:27AM (#12216015)

When I visited Shanghai a couple of years ago, I was taught to never, ever look directly at a car as the driver would take that as a "you've seen me, I can go first"-signal. Instead i was supposed to only sneak peeks at the traffic, never let them know I saw them coming, which would make them stop. I was only there for about three weeks so i can't really testify for the long term effectiveness, but at least I'm still here to share that anecdata, so there's something at least. :-)

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Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by tostitos1979 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:02AM (#12216154)

I ran into this situation with a driverless car at an intersection in Mountain View. It got me all confused. The car too .. it slowed because it was unsure I was getting into the crosswalk or not. Quite a corner case.

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Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by fpoling on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:57AM (#12216369)

Similarly in Moscow I was told when changing the line I should never look that other cars show any indication that they would yield. I should just blink for some seconds and then go. Then I should trust that other drivers want to avoid collisions and yield.

It worked while I have been there for 9 months in 2009, but it never become emotionless instinct to drive like that.

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Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by mollmerx on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @08:19AM (#12217355)

blink = indicate

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Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by fpoling on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @09:45AM (#12217836)

Thanks for pointing this misusage of the word that totally changed the meaning.

In common Russian usage the word for "blink" also means indicate-a-turn-with-signal and that is what I meant.

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Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by arkem on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:26PM (#12219732)

As an aside, in Australia a car's turn indicator lights are commonly referred to as "blinkers".

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Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by kbenson on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:55PM (#12220008)

It's common in (at least portions of) the US as well. I think this was just a case of it being somewhat ambiguous, since we are also talking about vision.

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Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by ajmurmann on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:39AM (#12218199)

Interesting, I didn't have that experience in Shanghai at all. When did you go? I was there in 2005 and 2009. When I visited Chongqing on the other hand...

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Re:China has built an elevated bus that travels above car tr... by sandebert on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:28PM (#12221233)

I was there 2008, stayed on DongZhuAnBang Road. Somewhat near the Bund, if I remember correctly. I got the instruction from a Swedish expat who had lived there for three years or so.

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