Things You Can Do Only On Indian Roads!

[me.cube29]

38. This is something hilarious. Whenever some put the wipers to clean the wind shield, the water will be splashed to wind shield of adjacent cars. The nozzle by default will be in weird position.

This happened to me once. I was waiting for signal one afternoon in bumper to bumper traffic and thought of cleaning the windshield. My wind shied was cleaned and then after couple of minutes taxi driver came to me with water on his face, taxi was in other lane, only then i realised what had happened. Once reaching home I ensured nozzles are properly aligned.

 

[autosafari]

This happened to me once. I was waiting for signal one afternoon in bumper to bumper traffic and thought of cleaning the windshield. My wind shied was cleaned and then after couple of minutes taxi driver came to me with water on his face, taxi was in other lane, only then i realised what had happened. Once reaching home I ensured nozzles are properly aligned.

Nozzles in Manza are fixed it seems. So no chance of this type of situations

 

[me.cube29]

Nozzles in Manza are fixed it seems. So no chance of this type of situations

Nozzles are fixed but apertures can be aligned, at least in Vista.

 

[macsvin]

I tried to search this but could not get in but I guess no one has posted this before & seems this is 1 of the important thing which you can do only in INDIA -
You have to look at both the sides while crossing 1-way road.

 

[nickandre]

some times on one way ghats you find villagers with head lights on balsting their horn coming in from any side some times left side or some times right side
Makes you just want to quit driving in india.

truck drivers instead of using the left lane will use the other lanes.

drivers tailgating you flashing head lights and horns to give way

at intersections with a right turn and left turn and you intend to go straight and keep your car in the middle lane some fool on the right lane will over take and cut left just infront of your car

people in buses instead of using plastic bags to puke do it outside the moving bus and showering every car and biker behind with their puke (happened to my friend) so i guess helmets for bikers can save them from this also

 

[TSIVipul]

truck drivers instead of using the left lane will use the other lanes.

Actually this is because most of the trucks are overloaded and in case if anything comes in front then it is going to be crushed as the vehicle won't brake that good when overloaded.
Also whats good that most of them run in a single lane instead of changing them uselessly making it easy and safe to overtake them..

people in buses instead of using plastic bags to puke do it outside the moving bus and showering every car and biker behind with their puke (happened to my friend) so i guess helmets for bikers can save them from this also

This has happened to my friend too,we all were going to Delhi and from the UP roadways bus(long distance tourer from Dehradun to Delhi) moving in front first a cold drink bottle came and hit our car and after that a man enjoying pan masala in the bus made our car red,he had seen that the white city is just behind the bus,but still he did it..

Our reaction:
We were annoyed and decided to tech a lesson to the people doing this.As we felt this can be dangerous,example:if the bottle was heavy then it could have broken out head lights,or if the bottle would have hit a biker,then..
Also if the pan masala would have fallen on any person,any person may have got scolded in the office for those red-done clothes and this spoils the light colored shirts too leaving a permanent spot..
Pointed out who were two guys(one was a family who threw the bottle).then we followed the bus and as soon as it came out of the population on an empty stretch,we overtook the bus and stopped it.
I with my friends entered the bus and badly abused and asked the two men(father of family who threw bottle and the one who spitted that pan masala thing)to come out of the bus.
They didn't came down and the other passengers too opposed us.Then we explained whole incident to driver,conductor and other passengers in the bus which resulted in some people asking them to ask us pardon and they did it..then we left the spot..

 

[Vishwas]

91- Keep on speeding even if the signal turns red or yellow.
92- The famous "A/C no hand signal"
93- Putting cheap annoying LEDs lights especially the cabs in Bangalore and private buses with disturbing lights.
94- Changing lanes without indicator and speed limits.
95- Can put you own color choice of number plates(Seen many in Bangalore with silver board and in TN and many car owners put golden numbers on the white plates)

 

[EnfieldRyder]

91- Keep on speeding even if the signal turns red or yellow.

I experienced the result of this for the first time today, an idiot in Chevy Beat rear ended my bike when I had to stop at one of the busy Intersections in Hyderabad. The guy gave only 100 bucks for the cost of the tail lamp cover, the actual cost being 120 (20 bucks I had to shell out) & left, there was a cop at the signal he didn't even bother to come over & check as he saw it as a minor fender bender! The most irritating thing is LED or the conventional signals never work in Hyderabad!

 

[nickandre]

mumbai has lots having numbers in marathi fonts made to read raja dada(brother,or some gang leader) aae (mother)

 

[Highway Ranger]

92- The famous "A/C no hand signal"

This has a history behind it. In early days we never had air-conditioned cars, and it was mandatory to use different hand signals while turning, left, right, slowing down or stopping.

Then the scene slowly changed with people fixing aftermarket ACs for their cars. Which started this. To let the driver behind know that he shouldn't expect any hand signals.

Not sure if I am right, I vaguely remember that this sign was insisted by the RTO at that period of time.

Now of course, it has become a joke.

 

[Vishwas]

I experienced the result of this for the first time today, an idiot in Chevy Beat rear ended my bike when I had to stop at one of the busy Intersections in Hyderabad. The guy gave only 100 bucks for the cost of the tail lamp cover, the actual cost being 120 (20 bucks I had to shell out) & left, there was a cop at the signal he didn't even bother to come over & check as he saw it as a minor fender bender! The most irritating thing is LED or the conventional signals never work in Hyderabad!

That is India Dude:-) Traffic cops are like that.

This has a history behind it. In early days we never had air-conditioned cars, and it was mandatory to use different hand signals while turning, left, right, slowing down or stopping.

Then the scene slowly changed with people fixing aftermarket ACs for their cars. Which started this. To let the driver behind know that he shouldn't expect any hand signals.

Not sure if I am right, I vaguely remember that this sign was insisted by the RTO at that period of time.

Now of course, it has become a joke.

I think the turn indicators would have served the purpose well.

 

[Highway Ranger]

Well! those days, when I took my first driving test, we had different hand signals which we were to use.

For example,

When you are slowing down, you need to put out your hand and move it in up and down direction.

And when you are going to halt you need have your hand out at right angle (L shaped) with the palm facing the front.

When you take a U turn, you need to put your hand out and rotate your wrist downwards in a clockwise rotation.

So, those days, we also had a big caution for left hand drive cars - CAUTION - LEFT HAND DRIVE.

 

[macsvin]

89. Rear glass full of stickers with names of Children, Gods etc.
90. Dashboard full of idols and flashing lights.

I have personally experienced Point 90. We had hired a Sumo once. When I enetered the Sumo I saw postcard size photo of owners MOM, DAD, Lord Ganesh, Godess Laxmi & Balaji. The whole dashboard was filled with these frames & was surrounded by various lights. For a moment I thought I am entering some Mandir & thought of removing my shoes before entering the Sumo.

 

[nickandre]

I have personally experienced Point 90. We had hired a Sumo once. When I enetered the Sumo I saw postcard size photo of owners MOM, DAD, Lord Ganesh, Godess Laxmi & Balaji. The whole dashboard was filled with these frames & was surrounded by various lights. For a moment I thought I am entering some Mandir & thought of removing my shoes before entering the Sumo.

do not wish to hurt any ones religious sentiments but i think it makes more sense keeping one or two idols in such a size that it wont affect visibility

 

[macsvin]

Yes totally agree but in the case stated above there were 5 postcard size frames decorated with LED