Bought a new vehicle? Learning to drive? Or did you just get your licence? Keen on taking on the Indian traffic? Or, are you a road-pro?
Welcome to Dodge n Drive!
With India's traffic burgeoning by the hour and every Tom, Dick and Harry (it could be you!) getting hold of a Driver's Licence, it is only natural that our roads are the most dangerous places to be on. While danger to life and limb is the first and foremost on everyone's mind, coming a close second is the danger to your vehicle! Better the vehicle, bigger the dent in your pocket. To go with it, you of course may have to pay for the dent in the other guy's vehicle too! That of course, solely depends on how good you are at dealing with trouble makers.
Most road regulars would have developed tested and proven methods of getting themselves from Point A to Point B with little or no fuss, keeping themselves, their passengers and vehicle safe, and in reasonable time, too. It is the new drivers who find life quite hectic and worrisome in India's maddening traffic. Huh, really?
I have been driving for over a decade now and my fellow road users continue to amaze and appall me on a daily, per-drive basis. Herein, I'm trying to make sense of why drivers do what they do and why our authorities only worsen it.