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RE: Comparing Thailand to Vietnam while the wound is still fresh: Part 3
Your points about speed and uniformity are some of the reasons that I look forward to the advent of self driving cars on the freeways. People are just out of control nuts over here and I think that having cars work in an orchestrated unison would just be so much more efficient and safer.
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It really does function better (and faster) when everyone just does the right thing. Thailand is filled with "me first, me only" drivers and this not only results in bad accidents but it has an overall detriment on the ability for anyone to get anywhere in a timely fashion. It's impossible to get people to understand this though when there is basically zero enforcement of any sort of road laws in Thailand. That would be step one. If there are no consequences for driving like a dickhead, or even driving one-eyed drunk, people are not going to change their behavior.
I think the zipper merge is a perfect example of this. If done properly, it is so efficient, but people don't like the idea of someone racing ahead of them and all of that. Especially with the increase in road rage incidents lately, we really need to take human emotion out of the equation. If I had all the money in the world I would hire a driver and let them deal with it.
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