The AutoRickshaw
Vehicle name: Autorickshaw
Location: India
Engine Type: 2-stroke gas engine
Passenger capacity: 3
This mode of public transportation is akin to the Philippines’ Tricycle. You can see this vehicles in and around the streets of India. Although its the cousin of the tricycle, this vehicle can also be seen in expressways where normally only large vehicles like cars and trucks only travel. This is because of the Drivers of autorickshaws has a mindset that they own all the roads in India.
Think jeepney drivers are bad, wait till you have a ride on one of this things.they make jeepney drivers look like saints. In the philippines at least the jeepney drivers and tricycle drivers give way(sometimes) but for autorickshaw drivers, theres no such thing as YIELD. its every driver for himself around here. I won’t allow my parents or any other people with heart conditions riding on one of this things cause they will give you a shock with the way they navigate through the crowded streets of India. they will squeze into any available space, missing cars by an inch literally. I measured the spacing of the autorickshaw that i was riding with the car beside us and it was an inch, maybe less. They tailgate every car,truck, motorcycle and other autorickshaw. Plus if you’re a foreigner, they will have you pay in a fix price ride no less than 20 INR(Indian Rupee). One time we were asking an autorickshaw driver to drive us to a place. He asked for 100INR, although it would normally cost around 30 INR. We refused to ride in his vehicle as it was too much. We then approach another driver and he agreed to take us for 20INR.
Drivers here use there horns every chance they get. this is also true for autorickshaw drivers(the horns sound like crows). i’ve manage to get the jist of the types of honking that they will do for a particular situation. if the driver wants to cut on a lane, he would use his horn twice in succession (beepbeep!). if there is a pedestrian in his way, even if he’s 10 meters away it would sound like one long honk (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep). if there’s a car blocking its way it will make a short honk(bep). Then imagine that there would be 50 vehicles doing these simultaneously on one lane.
I think this would be how pinoy drivers will be in 10 years if they continue the trend of disregarding traffic rules and blatlantly violate them and if the gov’t would not enforce the Law with an iron fist.
