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thejapanchannel
  • 7/11/2024
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00:00Hey guys, another one for our wheels in Japan playlist on our mini series of
00:04crazy drivers in Japan. And of course we can't have crazy drivers in Japan video
00:10without a few phone zombies. Would love to know what the statistics are on how
00:17many people do this now in Japan but it just it's everywhere you couldn't pull
00:20up at a set of traffic lights and look across without seeing someone on a phone.
00:23Cars and trucks, car drivers and truck drivers and motorcyclists, everybody do
00:29this seems to be we as we've guessed before probably 25% of people seem to be
00:35doing it at any moment that you look around. And of course the dudes who don't
00:39stop at red lights just stop in the middle of the intersection, all the usuals.
00:44Here's something a bit different, these guys had the back of their van open
00:48which took this lane, this roads about one and a half lanes wide and it sort of
00:53made it a one lane road instead of one and a half lane road and we came back an
00:57hour later and it was still like that. I was like ah all you need is a inattentive
01:02van driver or two cars to pass each other right here and someone's gonna
01:07collect that door aren't they. So again without a gar demand to tell them it's
01:11dangerous they won't even be aware of it. Again same as this driving out in the
01:15countryside middle of nowhere out through the rice fields and there's two
01:20cars one right up the tail of the one in front. Usually this isn't aggressive it's
01:25just the Japanese way. It's the same way if you go and stand in a convenience
01:28store and there's only you and one other customer, the other customer will stand
01:32behind you so close you can feel them breathing on the back of your neck. It's
01:36just the Japanese thing that when you get a group of people they all get
01:40close to each other. So it seems that most of the drivers they're not really
01:44being aggressive but they're just driving along close to each other. I mean
01:48there are exceptions, occasionally we do get a real aggressive a-hole that's
01:51zigzagging backwards and forwards and cutting people off but usually it's just
01:55this is what they do they drive really close and of course the result of that
01:59is now and again one of them makes a mistake and then suddenly you'll get a
02:03police car blocking a lane of traffic like this and the other lane will be
02:08really busy and really slow because one lanes closed and when you get up close
02:12you'll find out that it's because someone's ran into the back of someone.
02:14In this case it couldn't even see the damage but the Japanese rule is, the rule
02:20in Japan is if two cars contact each other you've got to call the police it
02:25doesn't matter how minimal the damage is. So they did. So the road was closed while
02:32they were investigating. I mean it doesn't take much investigating to know what
02:36happened. Same thing here of course the rain doesn't stop them either. Big green
02:39truck right up right up the back of the car in front all you need is someone to
02:44make a mistake and that trucks gonna wipe out all those cars. Now and again
02:47we'll see that on TV happens here fairly regularly and occasionally people die.
02:52So same day different vehicle same day it finished raining but obviously been
02:58raining heavily and in this case there was a truck at the front and a car came
03:03up behind obviously too close and hit pretty hard. So obviously after the
03:09impact they've obviously moved the truck away from the car but this one hit
03:15pretty hard and again everyone's all surprised oh isn't that amazing but why
03:19is it amazing? They all drive too close to each other. It's amazing is it the lack
03:24of logic and read you know lack of reasoning and and logic is amazing isn't
03:30it? More videos coming soon