"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3FC02FE5.A16788@yahoo.co.jp...
> Never. How is this relevant to the selfishness of Japanese drivers?

"Bah. If there are three or more lanes in either direction, people drive
like it's a highway."
    -- Eric Takabayashi

That was in response to my saying Japanese drivers drive slower than
Sepponian ones, so you must be saying that this is not the case -- Japanese
drivers drive just as fast as Sepponian ones.

This is in fact not the case in absolute terms (IME), but I agree that down
narrow streets they often drive at speeds that are quite frightening to me.
In fact, I remember being scared shitless the first time I rode in a
Japanese taxi.

We were barreling down this little street as wide as a one-way street in
Sepponia. Another car came from the other direction, and the taxi driver
didn't even slow down -- just flipped a little switch that retracted the
side mirrors. I think he needed those extra centimeters to make it, too.

I never got used to that, either. I still slow down on those
swapping-spit-close passes.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom