{"id":30963,"date":"2006-06-06T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/06\/06\/apparently-driving-is-messed-up-in-a-lot-of-countries\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T10:00:13","slug":"apparently-driving-is-messed-up-in-a-lot-of-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060606-13\/?p=30963","title":{"rendered":"Apparently driving is messed up in a lot of countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the reactions to my entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/05\/01\/587529.aspx\"> driving in Taiwan<\/a>, it appears that driving is pretty messed up all over Asia. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM\"> a video of driving in India<\/a> that was popular a while back.\n <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/05\/01\/587529.aspx#587683\"> This comment comparing Taiwan driving to the Philippines<\/a> reminded me of a conversation I had with some Filipino tourists when I was in Taiwan. We were on a bus as it was negotiating traffic, and I asked them, &#8220;Is driving in the Philippines as crazy as here in Taiwan?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> They answered, &#8220;Oh, no. It&#8217;s much crazier.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the reactions to my entry on driving in Taiwan, it appears that driving is pretty messed up all over Asia. Here&#8217;s a video of driving in India that was popular a while back. This comment comparing Taiwan driving to the Philippines reminded me of a conversation I had with some Filipino tourists when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-30963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>From the reactions to my entry on driving in Taiwan, it appears that driving is pretty messed up all over Asia. Here&#8217;s a video of driving in India that was popular a while back. This comment comparing Taiwan driving to the Philippines reminded me of a conversation I had with some Filipino tourists when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}