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  • 1 year ago
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00:00hey guys another one for our wheels in Japan playlist on our mini series of
00:04crazy drives in Japan so we need a name for these guys we show you these guys
00:10all the time the ones that go through the red light stop in the middle of the
00:13intersection intersection parkers I don't know what do you think guys we
00:20need a name for those guys I've got a few names for these guys the ones who
00:24allow their kids to stand between the seats at the front of the car that's one
00:28of our bugbears that one because it risks kids lives of course and then the
00:34phone zombies phone fools in the car no shortage of those every day every day we
00:42go somewhere in the car we see it's become more and more common we'd
00:46estimate 25% of people seem to do it just as a rough estimate if you pull up
00:52at a set of traffic lights like this and look around there's always someone
00:55staring at the phone and you see them coming towards you that's more scary
00:58with their heads down you'll see a driver coming towards you with their
01:01head down looking in their lap you know they're looking at and on the bikes yep
01:05they do it on the bikes too now this one's actually perfectly legal you can
01:10watch TV or videos or gameplay or whatever you want to do perfectly legal
01:16in Japan to mount it up on the dashboard in front of your face while you're
01:20driving and watch a movie or TV or whatever you want to do as long as you don't touch the
01:25screen so isn't that scary and nobody sees a problem with that I think that's
01:30perfectly okay to do that so following too closely how scary would it be to
01:37look in your mirror like we did and see that cement truck coming flying up
01:42behind so we got out of his way and he was just sort of flying along bullying
01:46people out of his way so he got really close behind him until I'd move over and
01:51of course he's speeding the limit there's about 70 and he's everybody's
01:55speeding but he's right up everybody going faster than everybody else so
02:00pretty scary business isn't it and we've shown you what the results of that we
02:04showed you the route we see the results that all the time on television here too
02:07so black van man something about the van guys because they're working or something
02:12they can drive like crazy people this is a funny one straight piece of road now
02:16have a look in the closed lane there's police car there's firefighters it seems like one
02:24guy fell off his bike somehow on a straight piece of road but the bikes off
02:28to the side as is the rider but all the emergency vehicles are blocking the lane
02:32and that's the only reason the lanes blocked right it's all the police
02:36vehicles and fire trucks and so this is actually on the weekend and the traffic
02:43is banked back for kilometers because that's what they do they'll spend hours
02:47with that lane closed investigating how the guy fell off his bike come come back
02:53two hours later they'll be still sitting there and the traffic will be to more
02:56videos coming soon
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