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Driving in Indonesia
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Indonesians drive on the left side of the street (British style).
Many Westerners amaze with the way we drive, reckless. Yet, accidents are
not that many. How could that be? We drive like a "school of fish"
School of fish. A British professor went to my university. He was amazed with our traffic. When we were in campus, we lost him for a couple of hours and were worried. Then a couple of hours he went back and said that he stood in a corner analyzing the traffic. He said that there's no accident because the way Indonesians drive is like a school of fish. Picture a school of fish. They don't go straight, yet you don't see them hitting each other. When you drive you know that the car in front of you can make a quick left or right turn, then you adjust your car, just like the other cars around you. So... that's the school of fish theorem. Make sense to me. |
