Learning to drive on Mumbai roads is not a joke. Those narrow lanes with more people walking on the roads than on the footpaths and traffic signals not working half the times, it can only get messy. More so, if you are girl learning to drive, you will be looked upon as an “idiot” who has no potential what so ever to steer a car correctly.
To make this feat even more difficult our beloved BEST bus drivers, cabbies and auto rickshaw drivers add their bit. In the pursuit of making the driving experience for the novice drivers as challenging as possible, these MCPs (Male Chauvinist Pigs) also tend to slow their own commute. Leave alone their deafening horn blowing skills and seriously is using turn signals a sign of weakness for these smart asses?
My driving experience has helped me learn a new set of driving rules:
1. Don't be fooled by the lines on the road. If there is almost enough room for two cars--move over, it's two lanes.
2. Never put on your signal in anticipation of a turn. Signals are to be used to let other drivers know what you have just done. Always wait until you are well into the turn before signaling.
3. If you are a pedestrian, size up the traffic flow and find spots where you can dart in between cars to get across several lanes of traffic. Don't worry that you are crossing against the light. If any startled driver stops when you jump out inches from his car, be sure to give him a dirty look because now he has messed up your traffic pattern.
4. Bikers never overtake from the right. Its okay if you forget to horn before overtaking.
My conclusion: Indian’s are known to be the best drivers in the world… London, New York go anywhere you’d surely find an Indian Cabbie. Has anyone wondered why so… because Indian drivers are not afraid to die.
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