Road Rage and Bad Driving: Russian Style

[GeorgiaBoy]

And you thought there were bad drivers in America...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuUdztA_yhA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-l4w-DIiXk

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Brosnan got it right.

[gunrunner505]

At least the horse used the cross walk......

[Alex V]

If only u guys understood the commentary. lol

Makes the video so much more enjoyable lol

This is what happens when a population where one in a hundred had a car before 1991 all of a sudden gives the opportunity for everyone to have a car. No one knows what to do with them.

My dad was on a waiting list for 10+ years to get a car before we moved to the US. Thank god he never got one... I could have been an orphan lol

[GeorgiaBoy]

If only u guys understood the commentary. lol



All I hear is some angry sounding language that doesn't know the difference between consonants and vowels.

:dance3:

[Alex V]

All I hear is some angry sounding language that doesn't know the difference between consonants and vowels.

:dance3:

That's what my wife says.

But she understands those videos cause I taught her all the "important" words.

[halo2304]

How Russians deal with tailgaters.
http://youtu.be/yD1e5mgQ2jE?t=3s

:jester:

[Leonidas24]

I'm honestly addicted to the Russian car crash compilations that are on Youtube. It baffles me how there are so many stupid mistakes by these drivers, but if Alex V's commentary is accurate then it makes it all the more understandable.

[montrala]

but if Alex V's commentary is accurate then it makes it all the more understandable.

Alex V is accurate. We had little more "car culture" than Soviet Union (more cars per 100 people during commie times, plus we had opportunity to go to Western Europe and learn some good habits), but driving in Poland can be unpleasant experience as well. I had some very scary moments myself, done unbelievably stupid things as well, usually with no or minor consequences (lucky me). Basically when I drive I try to imagine what would be most stupid or dangerous thing people around can do - this helps me to stay alive, especially because I drive little faster than most of them. Anyway, I do not feel tough or brave enough to drive in Russia, those videos show thing that go beyond my imagination, so I can not plan for something that stupid, that I can't even imagine it.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

Apparently, you guys have never driven the 405 in LA during rush hour...

[montanadave]

Makes me want to get a little dash cam. Who makes a compact, reliable model?

[montrala]

Makes me want to get a little dash cam. Who makes a compact, reliable model?

I heard good things about BlackVue cameras, but never used one myself (or any other actually). Model DR400G won recent big car camera test in one of most reliable car magazines here. What sorts bad cameras from good cameras is night and image stabilisation.

[Arik]

If only u guys understood the commentary. lol

Makes the video so much more enjoyable lol

This is what happens when a population where one in a hundred had a car before 1991 all of a sudden gives the opportunity for everyone to have a car. No one knows what to do with them.

My dad was on a waiting list for 10+ years to get a car before we moved to the US. Thank god he never got one... I could have been an orphan lol

We had 2.....**** YEAH!!! 2 cars in our houshold....my dad and my uncle. Both were on a waiting list but my uncle bribed some guy in charge of that list with a case of French cognac! He always knew someone who knew someone who wanted something. So we got 2 cars. My dad had a Lada and my uncle had some sort of a mini pickup. Think El Camino style but small.

One time during winter my uncle had to drive me to school and it had snowed heavy that night. He didnt bother clearing the windshield .....just stuck his finger through the snow and wiggled it around to make a small hole. Thats how we drove that morning.

7hr trips from Kishenev to Kiev were fun in those little death traps!

[gunrunner505]

Apparently, you guys have never driven the 405 in LA during rush hour...

You want to stare death in the eye, get in a cab on the island of St. Lucia. Those people are insane.....

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[khc3]

You want to stare death un the eye, get in a cab on the island of St. Lucia. Those people are insane.....

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LOL, I once took a late night cab ride from the airport to Marigot Bay. All I remember are sheer cliff drops and blind one-lane hairpin curves.

Thank god I was quite drunk.

[gunrunner505]

I was quite sober for the cab ride from the airport to the resort. Narrow roads, sheer drop offs, blind corners and insane drivers. I lost count of how many houses had a wadded up car in the front yard because some dude wrecked it. Crazy....

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[fixit69]

Needed laugh. Thanks for posting.

[Alex V]

We had 2.....**** YEAH!!! 2 cars in our houshold....my dad and my uncle. Both were on a waiting list but my uncle bribed some guy in charge of that list with a case of French cognac! He always knew someone who knew someone who wanted something. So we got 2 cars. My dad had a Lada and my uncle had some sort of a mini pickup. Think El Camino style but small.

One time during winter my uncle had to drive me to school and it had snowed heavy that night. He didnt bother clearing the windshield .....just stuck his finger through the snow and wiggled it around to make a small hole. Thats how we drove that morning.

7hr trips from Kishenev to Kiev were fun in those little death traps!

I was born in Kiev...

My Dad's uncle had a car... he had a lot of stuff... but then again he went away for 10 years of a 15 year stretch. [for those who don't know, in the Soviet Union the maximum jail sentence was 15 years, anything over that was the "death penalty"]

[Arik]

Neh it wasnt like that. He was just good at being a middle man.

I had a relative locked up for 7 years. Had an accident and rolled his semi down an embankment. 7 years for destruction of the peoples property!


My moms side is all Kiev. My dad, Kishinev, Moldova. I was born there

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[GeorgiaBoy]

Not only are Russians known for their bad driving; they are also known for their "balls of steel". (Or, in my view, sheer stupidity)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynnmxmVNKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mozYoPICQJE

[Trajan]

Not only are Russians known for their bad driving; they are also known for their "balls of steel". (Or, in my view, sheer stupidity)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynnmxmVNKs


Now that's some scary shit.

[Alex V]

Not only are Russians known for their bad driving; they are also known for their "balls of steel". (Or, in my view, sheer stupidity)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynnmxmVNKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mozYoPICQJE

I might puke...

[Whiskey_Bravo]

You want to stare death in the eye, get in a cab on the island of St. Lucia. Those people are insane.....

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I agree 100%. Last time I was there we took a cab at night from the airport to the north of the island and saw 3 serious wrecks along the way. I won't bring up the several near misses we had along blind turns.

[mnoe82]

Gotta agree about St Lucia.

Went there on our honeymoon, nuts. I was loving it but my wife was terrified. All those Toyota mini buses, motorcycles, blind curves, bad bad things.

Also saw a sign that was promoting a new government building under construction, riddled with bullet holes. Some things are universal I guess.