Saturday, August 18, 2007
Captitalism & Driving Habit
Seattle is a beautiful green city. I just love the look & feel of the pine trees, and smell of the crispy summer air. Bellevue, one of the two major centres (the other one is Seattle) has only about 150K population. It is spacious, with millions of trees spreading as near and as far eyes can see. 40KM out town, the local resident thinks that it is "far", and thus you can get pretty decent real estate price there. Building of houses are limited to clear the areas of land on needed basis. You need council's permits to cut down trees above certain age.
You got feeling of orderly around this place. Driving around, you would notice that all traffic rules are adhered to. Nobody just simply cut in & out of lane, driving on hard shoulder, etc. Speed limit seemed to be followed. We took a trip from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon. If you've been to LV, you would know that there is basically nothing outside of LV, only Nevada barren desert landscape left, right and in front of you. While passing through an interchange, the driver actually slowed down to 30M/H, as dictated by the speed limit, even though there wasn't a single car (or a living being) within 2 Km radius!
One hates to think what a Malaysian driver would have done. And then again, as compare to cities like Medan, Malaysia is considered not so bad after all.
Capitalism makes what America the superpower today. But, I'm sure there is a cosmic kind of design that drive the relationship between the advancement of civilization to driving habit/manner of road users, including motor vehicle drivers.
Interesting, indeed.
You got feeling of orderly around this place. Driving around, you would notice that all traffic rules are adhered to. Nobody just simply cut in & out of lane, driving on hard shoulder, etc. Speed limit seemed to be followed. We took a trip from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon. If you've been to LV, you would know that there is basically nothing outside of LV, only Nevada barren desert landscape left, right and in front of you. While passing through an interchange, the driver actually slowed down to 30M/H, as dictated by the speed limit, even though there wasn't a single car (or a living being) within 2 Km radius!
One hates to think what a Malaysian driver would have done. And then again, as compare to cities like Medan, Malaysia is considered not so bad after all.
Capitalism makes what America the superpower today. But, I'm sure there is a cosmic kind of design that drive the relationship between the advancement of civilization to driving habit/manner of road users, including motor vehicle drivers.
Interesting, indeed.
# posted by Dr Roland Chia @ 4:43 PM 
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