Take Mumbai, for instance. I spent 4 days in this city of 20+ Million, and I saw exactly 4 traffic lights. Masses of cars, busses, trucks, tuk tuks, motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, animal and human powered carts, pedestrians and cows were all competing for the same space, and the winners were those that had no fear and the loudest horns, except for the cows, who enjoyed traffic priority much like pedestrians in California.
A taxi driver gleefully told me that the trick was to use the horn, not the (37 comments)