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olaf2022
Feb 19, 2003
Fun Shoe

FizFashizzle posted:

Almost ten years ago there was all this hype about the first entirely designed and produced Chinese car that was ready to hit the market. It was loving hideous but the price was going to be alright, provided they could just show they cared about crash safety....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SRyG6UR2A

Anyway the chinese government screamed the germans rigged the tests then sold all the cars to god knows where.

looks like it actually fared better than this australian car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgjtSilW8yM

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Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Mr. Popo posted:

"To do this smelly Sambo should not return for a lifetime license

Driver's license must be traded his mother with chicken"

agreed, its the only fair punishment

more traffic violation laws should involve trading the perpetrators mother for various farmyard animals imo

simple
Apr 11, 2007

Jagchosis posted:

im pretty sure this is taiwan but this video is a proclick

Definitely Taiwan, Kau Shung or something like that. At first I though he was drunk but it appears he is just an old man who has no business driving a motor vehicle.

duckfarts
Jul 2, 2010

~ shameful ~





Soiled Meat

simple posted:

Definitely Taiwan, Kau Shung or something like that. At first I though he was drunk but it appears he is just an old man who has no business driving a motor vehicle.

It's Kaohsiung in Taiwan, the main southern city. It was an 85 year old man who was going to the hospital to get medicine, hit that first dude, then panicked and ran off and well,

simple posted:

he is just an old man who has no business driving a motor vehicle.


e: http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=h...thorName=faaart

duckfarts fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Jan 15, 2015

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
I wouldn't normally expect an 85 year old to have a dashcam

a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"
did the people survive?

duckfarts
Jul 2, 2010

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Soiled Meat

Jose posted:

I wouldn't normally expect an 85 year old to have a dashcam

most cars have them here, it's p normal, though i wonder how exactly that video got out

^^^ they're apparently fine

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

FizFashizzle posted:

Almost ten years ago there was all this hype about the first entirely designed and produced Chinese car that was ready to hit the market. It was loving hideous but the price was going to be alright, provided they could just show they cared about crash safety....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SRyG6UR2A

Anyway the chinese government screamed the germans rigged the tests then sold all the cars to god knows where.

loving rofl

BCR
Jan 23, 2011

Having visited Beijing and north east cities, how does Taipei compare for nature and greenery?

Like national parks, easy to get too green spaces. Beijing just hits me as brown, grey and dusty.

Am i right in thinking its a moped ride away in Taipei?

duckfarts
Jul 2, 2010

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Soiled Meat

BCR posted:

Having visited Beijing and north east cities, how does Taipei compare for nature and greenery?

Like national parks, easy to get too green spaces. Beijing just hits me as brown, grey and dusty.

Am i right in thinking its a moped ride away in Taipei?
Taipei is okaaaaaay, it could stand to be greener, definitely not brown and dusty though. I guess you could just do a satellite view of the two cities in google maps and compare.

Most of Taipei is concrete with a bit of greenery on sidewalks and such, but there are small and largeish parks(lots of riverside parks) around most everywhere so a moped ride away is pretty accurate. If you want something like a national park, you'll probably need to go out of town.

Horatius Bonar
Sep 8, 2011

BCR posted:

Having visited Beijing and north east cities, how does Taipei compare for nature and greenery?

Like national parks, easy to get too green spaces. Beijing just hits me as brown, grey and dusty.

Am i right in thinking its a moped ride away in Taipei?

Taipei is surrounded by forested hills and mountains, Yangmingshan is a national park nearby.

Or you can take the subway one stop past the Taipei 101 building station and hike Elephant Mountain.

This is good, because you might not want to be on a moped in Taiwan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMHjqgB7MCw

Having the "popular in Taiwan" youtube channel show up on my Youtube is pretty awful, most days.

Horatius Bonar
Sep 8, 2011

But sometimes it's kinda pretty good. You will want your sound for this one.


"stupid women rider REMIX"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXj6V9U73J8

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Horatius Bonar posted:

But sometimes it's kinda pretty good. You will want your sound for this one.


"stupid women rider REMIX"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXj6V9U73J8

The youtube preview image is mirrored so I thought the guy who filmed it was on the wrong side of the road.

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Horatius Bonar posted:

But sometimes it's kinda pretty good. You will want your sound for this one.


"stupid women rider REMIX"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXj6V9U73J8

God Bear4 months ago

This is a bit exaggerated eating red single pull actually let her meet one foot on the red sacrifice it !!

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Zhejiang man squats to defecate in middle of road, gets hit by car

quote:

"He's not deranged," they explained, "he's just a heavy drinker.

Fragrag
Aug 3, 2007
The Worst Admin Ever bashes You in the head with his banhammer. It is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass! You have been struck down.

olaf2022 posted:

looks like it actually fared better than this australian car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgjtSilW8yM

Jesus christ, the crumple zone shouldn't be the whole car

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Fragrag posted:

Jesus christ, the crumple zone shouldn't be the whole car

The video description says there was 375 Kg /827 lb of sand loaded (in the trunk). I'm guessing they were testing the wall, and not the car in this instance.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

Blistex posted:

The video description says there was 375 Kg /827 lb of sand loaded (in the trunk). I'm guessing they were testing the wall, and not the car in this instance.

375kg is about the average weight of five adults. Still a car test.

Cuatal
Apr 17, 2007

:dukedog:
Most people have dashcams in China because a lot of people make a career out of jumping onto people's cars, slamming their heads and whatever else they can into the windshield, then calling the cops and saying they were hit. There's videos of this around if you look a little bit.

Also, an actual judge in the Chinese supreme court ruled that the only people that would help someone who was hurt on the road or anywhere else is the person that hurt them, which is one of the reasons Chinese people will walk by a dying person in the street, since there are also people that will pretend they're hurt and have cut themselves with knives or whatever and lie around hoping someone helps them, so they can call the cops and say the person who helped was the one who stabbed them or whatever.

I'd imagine there are other countries where people do that sort of thing, but I don't know.

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

Cuatal posted:

I'd imagine there are other countries where people do that sort of thing, but I don't know.

There aren't

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Cuatal posted:

Most people have dashcams in China because a lot of people make a career out of jumping onto people's cars, slamming their heads and whatever else they can into the windshield, then calling the cops and saying they were hit. There's videos of this around if you look a little bit.

Also, an actual judge in the Chinese supreme court ruled that the only people that would help someone who was hurt on the road or anywhere else is the person that hurt them, which is one of the reasons Chinese people will walk by a dying person in the street, since there are also people that will pretend they're hurt and have cut themselves with knives or whatever and lie around hoping someone helps them, so they can call the cops and say the person who helped was the one who stabbed them or whatever.

I'd imagine there are other countries where people do that sort of thing, but I don't know.

wtf

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Clearly you didn't read the russia thread

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Russia and China should get a room

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Cuatal posted:

Most people have dashcams in China because a lot of people make a career out of jumping onto people's cars, slamming their heads and whatever else they can into the windshield, then calling the cops and saying they were hit. There's videos of this around if you look a little bit.

Also, an actual judge in the Chinese supreme court ruled that the only people that would help someone who was hurt on the road or anywhere else is the person that hurt them, which is one of the reasons Chinese people will walk by a dying person in the street, since there are also people that will pretend they're hurt and have cut themselves with knives or whatever and lie around hoping someone helps them, so they can call the cops and say the person who helped was the one who stabbed them or whatever.

I'd imagine there are other countries where people do that sort of thing, but I don't know.

Russia

Captain Postal
Sep 16, 2007

WarpedNaba posted:

375kg is about the average weight of five adults. Still a car test.

You don't commonly have five adults sitting behind the passenger cell. They were testing the wall.

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Cuatal posted:

Most people have dashcams in China because a lot of people make a career out of jumping onto people's cars, slamming their heads and whatever else they can into the windshield, then calling the cops and saying they were hit. There's videos of this around if you look a little bit.

Also, an actual judge in the Chinese supreme court ruled that the only people that would help someone who was hurt on the road or anywhere else is the person that hurt them, which is one of the reasons Chinese people will walk by a dying person in the street, since there are also people that will pretend they're hurt and have cut themselves with knives or whatever and lie around hoping someone helps them, so they can call the cops and say the person who helped was the one who stabbed them or whatever.

I'd imagine there are other countries where people do that sort of thing, but I don't know.

close but its not quite that they make a career out of it, because if you are just one guy jumping in front of a car obviously everyone is just going to drive away, dash cam or not

its organized crime getting the newer/stupider/worthless members to do the deed so that as soon as it happens, his associates slide up to the drivers window and extort money to "make all this trouble go away"

e: i dont really understand why russian and chinese gangsters are such pussies though, like they have guns and poo poo why dont they just steal the car and all the guys money/phone/etc and sell it?

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

Captain Postal posted:

You don't commonly have five adults sitting behind the passenger cell.

You don't go to many parties, I see!

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

close but its not quite that they make a career out of it, because if you are just one guy jumping in front of a car obviously everyone is just going to drive away, dash cam or not

its organized crime getting the newer/stupider/worthless members to do the deed so that as soon as it happens, his associates slide up to the drivers window and extort money to "make all this trouble go away"

e: i dont really understand why russian and chinese gangsters are such pussies though, like they have guns and poo poo why dont they just steal the car and all the guys money/phone/etc and sell it?

Stealing is very bad. Extortion is less so.

Butt Frosted Cake
Dec 27, 2010

Cuatal
Apr 17, 2007

:dukedog:

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

close but its not quite that they make a career out of it, because if you are just one guy jumping in front of a car obviously everyone is just going to drive away, dash cam or not

its organized crime getting the newer/stupider/worthless members to do the deed so that as soon as it happens, his associates slide up to the drivers window and extort money to "make all this trouble go away"

e: i dont really understand why russian and chinese gangsters are such pussies though, like they have guns and poo poo why dont they just steal the car and all the guys money/phone/etc and sell it?

This isn't true. It's not always organized crime, sometimes it is just one crazy person.

Lonely Virgil
Oct 9, 2012

Cuatal posted:

Most people have dashcams in China because a lot of people make a career out of jumping onto people's cars, slamming their heads and whatever else they can into the windshield, then calling the cops and saying they were hit. There's videos of this around if you look a little bit.

Also, an actual judge in the Chinese supreme court ruled that the only people that would help someone who was hurt on the road or anywhere else is the person that hurt them, which is one of the reasons Chinese people will walk by a dying person in the street, since there are also people that will pretend they're hurt and have cut themselves with knives or whatever and lie around hoping someone helps them, so they can call the cops and say the person who helped was the one who stabbed them or whatever.

I'd imagine there are other countries where people do that sort of thing, but I don't know.

some years back a toddler got ran over by a car and then hit about 2 more times while people just walked along while she crawled around trying to get their attention. Congrats China you made people to afraid too even help a dying a baby.

also drivers have murdered people they've hit because eating the fine you can pay off to avoid jail time is cheaper than having to pay for someone's medical bills for the rest of their lives.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

close but its not quite that they make a career out of it, because if you are just one guy jumping in front of a car obviously everyone is just going to drive away, dash cam or not

its organized crime getting the newer/stupider/worthless members to do the deed so that as soon as it happens, his associates slide up to the drivers window and extort money to "make all this trouble go away"

e: i dont really understand why russian and chinese gangsters are such pussies though, like they have guns and poo poo why dont they just steal the car and all the guys money/phone/etc and sell it?

Selling a stolen car takes time, VIN counterfeiting tech, and most of the time these days the ability to ship them to another country. Extortion is easy money and your crew can do it over and over whereas selling the poo poo would take twice as many people twice as much time.


Thank you for posting china.jpg in the china.jpg thread!

raton fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Jan 16, 2015

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


reminder that one of the triads main sources of money is illegal valet parking

seriouspost

A Jupiter
Apr 25, 2010

Bro Dad posted:

reminder that one of the triads main sources of money is illegal valet parking

seriouspost

Also as I learned from Sleeping Dogs, apparently running a private bus service that steals passengers from other bus companies?

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Cuatal posted:

This isn't true. It's not always organized crime, sometimes it is just one crazy person.

right my point is that those people might try it but they dont make any money from it because the person drives away while the victim is rolling on the ground in pain

EmperorFritoBandito
Aug 7, 2010

by exmarx

Wanna go to China so I can feel like Edward G. Robinson at the end of Soylent Green.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Can someone post more cyberpunk looking photos of china tia

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp
China is a wonderful country.

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Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Hong Kong and Taiwan mixed in (because gently caress da' police):

















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