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But then I spent a month riding a motorcycle in Vietnam, where they have the same practice, maybe not quite as intense.
I realised it is more like a radar system so you know what is around you.
Also the larger vehicles have right of way.
Once you realise this the system starts to make more sense.
After I remember riding a motorcycle in Thailand and getting the shock of my life as a big jeep zoomed past me without beeping.
I really missed that extra auditory information source once it was gone.
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But then I spent a month riding a motorcycle in Vietnam, where they have the same practice, maybe not quite as intense.
I realised it is more like a radar system so you know what is around you.
Also the larger vehicles have right of way.
Once you realise this the system starts to make more sense.
After I remember riding a motorcycle in Thailand and getting the shock of my life as a big jeep zoomed past me without beeping.
I really missed that extra auditory information source once it was gone.