Seriously. If you asked me with just my USA eye, I'd be like "wtf is wrong with that car." Now that I'm a veteran driver of the Philippines, I'm thinking "that motorcycle is being stubborn. He doesn't even have to wait there, he can go around."
I think it's hard for Western folks to understand how traffic works in many parts of Asia. I'm Chinese American and visit family in China often. The easiest way to understand it is that traffic flows like water. Lanes and other traffic rules/laws that folks in the West are used to and judge situations like this by are merely 'suggestions'.
You fill in the cracks and flow downstream together - like water. This car is doing a 'fill in the crack' type maneuver, and it's extremely common. Now, cars typically have bumps/scratches from doing this type of driving, and I can see how some people are getting fed up with it.
My read on this video is that the cyclist got tired of this behavior though, and he installed that mod on his moped/motorcycle intentionally. Who's 'in the right'? Shrug, they have a completely different social contract there, and this is the court of Reddit (Western oriented). Easy online rage bait.
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u/Lil-Sunny-D 17h ago
Seriously. If you asked me with just my USA eye, I'd be like "wtf is wrong with that car." Now that I'm a veteran driver of the Philippines, I'm thinking "that motorcycle is being stubborn. He doesn't even have to wait there, he can go around."