Japanese traffic signals and other driving fun

[Coligny]

you did something to that honda before it happened. but you cut the scene. its obvious.

Dear takidiot... Pay attention to the video. It's not a revenge cut in front of me. The honda just ignore the traffic around it as well as traffic laws.
If it was an aggressive cut-in the motion would be sharper with a quicker and harder braking right in front of me (and it would come from a BMW)...
Also notice that the silver car in front of the Honda follow the same path in the same motion.
I will now stop answering you on that topic. You are like AGW loons, anti vaxxers, pro nukaplantists and conspiracy theorists. You start with your conclusion and build a castle of shit to back it up. I'm sure you still pollute here because it might be one of the few place that don't simply ignore your intellectual inadequation. But like a vaginal yeast infection, it's not because you are not ignored that you have any value. Stop being an embarassment for japan and to a lesser extend mankind...

[matsuki]

There are two lanes after you turn...the paint is just totally gone. No excuse though, the two lane right turn paint is pretty good where the asshole almost ran into me.

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From above, the extendend stop line from the traffic on the 110° right road wishing to make a right interfere with with the lanes for the cars turning right like you do. It's a complete clusterfuck.

Sidenote, for mah crossing there is actually a third line extreme right for right turns only. She deserve her own backstory but have no influence on the main issue.

Yeah, it's a damn tight squeeze for two vehicles on that road as well...if there is a large truck next to me, I let them go ahead rather than be run off the road. As you say, complete clusterfuck of an intersection.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Must admit that I don't see anything out of the ordinary in these videos. Maybe this type of maneuvre is just normal in Nagoya or it's because I am European? I was always of the opinion that driving in Japan is extraordinarily relaxed. But then your mileage/perception of these things may perhaps vary.

[wagyl]

...pro nukaplantists...

The French are not pro nuclear power generation????

[Coligny]

Must admit that I don't see anything out of the ordinary in these videos. Maybe this type of maneuvre is just normal in Nagoya or it's because I am European? I was always of the opinion that driving in Japan is extraordinarily relaxed. But then your mileage/perception of these things may perhaps vary.

Driving in Vietnam is relaxed (maybe purposefull) chaos. People focus on going their ways while avoiding collision without any care for rules. But you see that their goal is to make it from A to B.
Nagoya and the big T. It's a dick measuring contest where the purpose of every asshole is to be in front of you and shove it in your face deep and hard. They are barely one evolutionnary step over flinging feces at each others. Feels like they don't know or want to go anywhere, they just want to be in front of you, faster than you, cut you by ignoring a stop or entering the road way too late or for the bigger doosh ride your rear bumper, overtake then slow to a crawl while drifting in the middle lane if you try to pass them. Don't get me started on the morons honking behind because I do only 40 in a 40 zone or the senile oyajis in their kei cars doing a constant 30 even in the +60 zone because slow is safe but not stopping for redlights or stop sign and never using turn signals... Because... Slow is safe ?!
And also add the bicycle certain to have a god given right of way extending to have priority when the drive on the right side of the road... I got one yesterday that pulled in front of me while I was waiting at a stop sign and expecting me to clear the road so he can continue to ride on the right side. I shutdown the engine (something you can't miss with a f'cking diesel) put the parking brake and gave him the finger before crossing my arms... Think he got the message.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Must admit that I don't see anything out of the ordinary in these videos. Maybe this type of maneuvre is just normal in Nagoya or it's because I am European? I was always of the opinion that driving in Japan is extraordinarily relaxed. But then your mileage/perception of these things may perhaps vary.

Driving in Vietnam is relaxed (maybe purposefull) chaos. People focus on going their ways while avoiding collision without any care for rules. But you see that their goal is to make it from A to B.
Nagoya and the big T. It's a dick measuring contest where the purpose of every asshole is to be in front of you and shove it in your face deep and hard. They are barely one evolutionnary step over flinging feces at each others. Feels like they don't know or want to go anywhere, they just want to be in front of you, faster than you, cut you by ignoring a stop or entering the road way too late or for the bigger doosh ride your rear bumper, overtake then slow to a crawl while drifting in the middle lane if you try to pass them. Don't get me started on the morons honking behind because I do only 40 in a 40 zone or the senile oyajis in their kei cars doing a constant 30 even in the +60 zone because slow is safe but not stopping for redlights or stop sign and never using turn signals... Because... Slow is safe ?!
And also add the bicycle certain to have a god given right of way extending to have priority when the drive on the right side of the road... I got one yesterday that pulled in front of me while I was waiting at a stop sign and expecting me to clear the road so he can continue to ride on the right side. I shutdown the engine (something you can't miss with a f'cking diesel) put the parking brake and gave him the finger before crossing my arms... Think he got the message.

Being French you should be used to horrible drivers.

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[matsuki]

Must admit that I don't see anything out of the ordinary in these videos. Maybe this type of maneuvre is just normal in Nagoya or it's because I am European? I was always of the opinion that driving in Japan is extraordinarily relaxed. But then your mileage/perception of these things may perhaps vary.

In the US, it's pretty much an instant citation for illegal lane change...and if they drift into your car when doing so, you're pretty much looking at a 100% their fault collision (unsafe & illegal lane change) Definitely interested in what the blame ratio usually is in Japan when it comes to this shit....besides my experience and what Coligny posted, most FG drivers I've asked about this have that "I know, WTF is that?!" reaction this shit. While I totally agree the clusterfuck-style of road design and markings partially to blame, I think it's mostly just shit drivers that are oblivious. Like the round about near my place, I almost T-bone people there all the time because they assume I'm going to stop for them or something? Fact is, they have a stop sign, I have right of way to keep on rounding about.

[chibaka]

On the theme of filming twats, with drive recorders, I've just fitted one due to having the rear of my car rearranged last year. It's a Chinese unit, and I'll probably return it to Amazon because it's pants, but I digress....

Poor quality from the rear cam (front is fine). Kids I often pass near my place, on their way home from school, you may just make out the fat fucker with the dark shirt giving me the finger....It was quite obvious when I looked in the rear view mirror. One reason to get HD in both front and back. Little shit....
Any way of enhancing mp4 video files so I can get a better pic?

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[Takechanpoo]

what kind of dude are you, that seriously get pissed off an elementary school boy?

[Coligny]

Deinterlace filter in photoshop ?

Tarooooooo ??? Halp ...

[chibaka]

what kind of dude are you, that seriously get pissed off an elementary school boy?

I get pissed off with cunts in general, you'd qualify I suspect. He'll probably grow up to be a bigger cunt, like you. Happy now?

[chibaka]

Deinterlace filter in photoshop ?

Thanks, anything would be useful. Not to launch a campaign against schoolboys as cockheadpoo suggests you understand, but to protect my property from shites who don't care. Abuse of the local population is purely a bonus

[Takechanpoo]

you better be careful of 不審者情報(the information of suspicious persons) shared among their parents.
they call a police by trivial things and you will get a title "suspicous person" around the neighborhood.
and yea you are gaijin who stands out and seems like the place is countryside. so the influence would be bigger than the case in urban area.

[matsuki]

you may just make out the fat fucker with the dark shirt giving me the finger....It was quite obvious when I looked in the rear view mirror. One reason to get HD in both front and back. Little shit....

LOL, last time that happened to me, I stopped the car and got out....lil turds ran off screaming.

Take - I didn't do anything to them, they probably learned the finger from their friends and just decided to try it on a furriner.

[chibaka]

you may just make out the fat fucker with the dark shirt giving me the finger....It was quite obvious when I looked in the rear view mirror. One reason to get HD in both front and back. Little shit....

LOL, last time that happened to me, I stopped the car and got out....lil turds ran off screaming.

Take - I didn't do anything to them, they probably learned the finger from their friends and just decided to try it on a furriner.

Actually when I saw what he was doing, I backed up. When I got to their position, he was hiding behind the little girls, like cockheadpoo no doubt.

I didn't do that when I was his age, I don't expect to get it now, in honesty/safety/politeness Japan..

[Yokohammer]

Flipping the bird is a fashion statement in Japan (hey, I saw it in the movies!).

In some places it can get you killed.

[kurogane]

I was quite surprised at the spread of The Flipped Finger last summer in the Asakusa area: mostly elementary and junior high students flipping me and yelling Halo! as I rode by. I happily reciprocated and even added a few cheery Fuck Yourselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you think they know what it really means? I like to think my little efforts helped spread the good cheer and bonhomie of insulting random strangers

[Samurai_Jerk]

Takeapoo is right for once. Stopping your car because some elementary school kid flipped you the bird? You guys are fucking mental.

[chibaka]

Takeapoo is right for once. Stopping your car because some elementary school kid flipped you the bird? You guys are fucking mental.

Must be ok then, shit, why do we all worry about manners eh? I hope your kids are better trained.

[Russell]

Takeapoo is right for once. Stopping your car because some elementary school kid flipped you the bird? You guys are fucking mental.

Must be ok then, shit, why do we all worry about manners eh? I hope your kids are better trained.

That's why he doesn't want kids...

[kurogane]

Awwww, it can be fun to put the fear of Hiroshima into them if they're being particularly annoying (esp. the scooter rats) but I agree with SJ about something that trivial. If they were CDn kids I would just run the feckers down but for Jpn kids that don't understand it anyaways??? I quite enjoyed yelling a cheery Fuck Youuuuuuuuuuuuuu whilst riding along Kotodoi Doori. Given how overindulgent too many Japanese are with ratty kids it's sort of a happy compromise. Works well with the racist bums as well. Some of them go full monkey if you swear back at them.

[matsuki]

Takeapoo is right for once. Stopping your car because some elementary school kid flipped you the bird? You guys are fucking mental.

LOL, it's not like I chased the lil fucker. I was honestly curious if he even knew what it meant.

[Takechanpoo]

i guess chibaka already is in the list and it reads "a suspicious man, who looks like a gaijin, filmed elementary school kids. Be careful!"

[chibaka]

Takeapoo is right for once. Stopping your car because some elementary school kid flipped you the bird? You guys are fucking mental.

LOL, it's not like I chased the lil fucker. I was honestly curious if he even knew what it meant.

A bit like "キープレフト ?

[Yokohammer]

The thing that worries me a bit is that these kids flip the bird because they've seen it on TV or in the movies and think it's just a light-hearted dismissal at worst, not realising that if at some point they travel overseas and do the same thing in a neighbourhood where it's seen as a challenge to the recipient's manhood or honor, or whatever it is that people who think like that think it is, they could very well find themselves on the wrong end of a serious ass-whuppin' or worse.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Awwww, it can be fun to put the fear of Hiroshima into them if they're being particularly annoying (esp. the scooter rats) but I agree with SJ about something that trivial. If they were CDn kids I would just run the feckers down but for Jpn kids that don't understand it anyaways??? I quite enjoyed yelling a cheery Fuck Youuuuuuuuuuuuuu whilst riding along Kotodoi Doori. Given how overindulgent too many Japanese are with ratty kids it's sort of a happy compromise. Works well with the racist bums as well. Some of them go full monkey if you swear back at them.

Yelling back at them from a bike I get.

[chibaka]

i guess chibaka already is in the list and it reads "a suspicious man, who looks like a gaijin, filmed elementary school kids. Be careful!"

Been on the list for years, gaijin with noisy car, white man doesn't attend community meetings. Doesn't mean I am the bogey man

[chibaka]

The thing that worries me a bit is that these kids flip the bird because they've seen it on TV or in the movies and think it's just a light-hearted dismissal at worst, not realising that if at some point they travel overseas and do the same thing in a neighbourhood where it's seen as a challenge to the recipient's manhood or honor, or whatever it is that people who think like that think it is, they could very well find themselves on the wrong end of a serious ass-whuppin' or worse.

99.9% of these people won't travel, how do you educate that?

[Russell]

The thing that worries me a bit is that these kids flip the bird because they've seen it on TV or in the movies and think it's just a light-hearted dismissal at worst, not realising that if at some point they travel overseas and do the same thing in a neighbourhood where it's seen as a challenge to the recipient's manhood or honor, or whatever it is that people who think like that think it is, they could very well find themselves on the wrong end of a serious ass-whuppin' or worse.

99.9% of these people won't travel, how do you educate that?

And if they do, they can at least get a Darwin award out of it.

[kurogane]

Yelling back at them from a bike I get.

And cheerfully too!!!! They love it. As for educating them............they are just 8 year olds.........just flip them back!