bad driving & confirmation bias some video "evidence"...

[cumgranosalum]

THis video would confirm to most TV members that Thai drivers are the worst in the world......apart from one factor......

its from a country with one of the lowest death rates in the world.......

[Kwasaki]

Well I'm certainly not one of most TV members and don't see the point your making.

Don't agree at all, had more near miss accidents in the UK as the vid confirms than I've ever had here in Thailand.

Once you get to understand the type of driving habits here l get to feel much safer on the roads here in Thailand.

[cumgranosalum]

i read somewhere - and I can't remember where - that UK and Thailand have about the same number of collisions which also puts the lie to relative driving standards - this would also indicate that the death rate is not particularly due to poor driving but is down to other elements - e.g. emergency services, road/vehicle quality and overall traffic engineering.

[Scouse Twoccer]

What;s the point of the OP? The Op's video confirms absolutely nothing about Thai drivers. By the way, we didn't need the last sentence telling us it wasn't from Thailand.

[cumgranosalum]

What;s the point of the OP? The Op's video confirms absolutely nothing about Thai drivers. By the way, we didn't need the last sentence telling us it wasn't from Thailand.

Oh dear, I expected that most would be able to grasp what it was about -- I didn't think I would have to spell it out, it's about confirmation bias, especially on ThaiVisa

[ardokano]

i read somewhere - and I can't remember where - that UK and Thailand have about the same number of collisions which also puts the lie to relative driving standards - this would also indicate that the death rate is not particularly due to poor driving but is down to other elements - e.g. emergency services, road/vehicle quality and overall traffic engineering.

Reality its defferent

There from statisic?

from insurance company or from police?

and accident can be different.

2 week ago i have trip Lamphun-Kalasin- Bangkok-Pattaya-Bangkok-Pataya for little be more 2 day maybe 50-52 hour.

the number of violations of traffic is almost the same as a topic in the video.

at the same time I saw 11 accidents !!!

2 inverted pickup truck on the road in Kalasin .

1 hard accident pick up with scooter.

another small thinks..

[steve187]

i read somewhere - and I can't remember where - that UK and Thailand have about the same number of collisions which also puts the lie to relative driving standards - this would also indicate that the death rate is not particularly due to poor driving but is down to other elements - e.g. emergency services, road/vehicle quality and overall traffic engineering.

if the above is true, i would say the death rate is higher in Thailand because of the motorbikes and the reckless high speeds of vehicles in Thailand as well as road layouts, signage and lack of enforcement.

[NanLaew]

I have the audio recording muted on my dashcam but my lad watched that video and he said it sounded just like when daddy's driving (here in LOS).

[007cableguy]

i read somewhere - and I can't remember where - that UK and Thailand have about the same number of collisions which also puts the lie to relative driving standards - this would also indicate that the death rate is not particularly due to poor driving but is down to other elements - e.g. emergency services, road/vehicle quality and overall traffic engineering.

I find that pretty unbelievable !!

I do six months here and six months in the Uk and driving a fair bit in both countries and never saw a dead body laid in the road before coming to Thailand ,Now its nearly a monthly occurrence here,

I would go as far as maybe going a month in the uk without coming across a accident yet here I would say its daily !

You take your life in your hands driving here and very defensive ,The average driver is shocking ,I've always said 95% of drivers here would fail a UK test!!

Just my opinion after living here 15 years !

[cumgranosalum]

i read somewhere - and I can't remember where - that UK and Thailand have about the same number of collisions which also puts the lie to relative driving standards - this would also indicate that the death rate is not particularly due to poor driving but is down to other elements - e.g. emergency services, road/vehicle quality and overall traffic engineering.

I find that pretty unbelievable !!

I do six months here and six months in the Uk and driving a fair bit in both countries and never saw a dead body laid in the road before coming to Thailand ,Now its nearly a monthly occurrence here,

I would go as far as maybe going a month in the uk without coming across a accident yet here I would say its daily !

You take your life in your hands driving here and very defensive ,The average driver is shocking ,I've always said 95% of drivers here would fail a UK test!!

Just my opinion after living here 15 years !

i'm not talking about road deaths, am I? I'm talking about collisions as I said earlier, it is what happens after those collisions which appears to lead to the higher death rate.

As mentioned there is a lot more 2-wheel transport in Thailand and it appears they are accountable for up to 80% of the deaths, but this may well be exacerbated by the lack of helmets and what happens AFTER the collision.

[Dmaxdan]

As someone who is from, and driven many miles in the UK I can confirm that there are some truly terrible drivers that plough their trade everyday. But one major difference between the UK and Thailand is that you cannot drive fast in built up, or inappropriate areas simple because it's nearly all policed by cameras of some sort or the other. If you do, you will loose your license very quickly. And I the UK. No license does mean no driving. Here in Thailand many roads users drive at high velocity in astonishing dangerous situations, in particular kids on motorbikes. Then of course you are trusting too luck, and many are not so lucky.

Many of the incidents in the above video are at quite low speeds, which means that if they had resulted in an accident, you would be looking at insurance claims, not hospital visits. Any country in the world will have thousands of minor road accidents everyday. But of course they are never reported.

[Ace of Pop]

Do you have to master expletives before they sell you a "Im Perfect Camera". Realy dont know why i bought one here, a toy, something to try ,just rather pointless imo. Could have bought 71.4285714 nice tins of Leo instead.

[condo bought]

I'm now convinced.

Thais are a beacon of safe road behavior.

thanks.

[cumgranosalum]

I'm now convinced.

Thais are a beacon of safe road behavior.

thanks.

It would seem you haven't really understood any of this thread...

[cumgranosalum]

I dug around for some figures the other day and although I can get a record of all incidents in UK it is far more difficult to do so in Thailand where stat gathering is largely hit or miss.

however I then checked out casualties reported in Thailand I got a figure of 50,000 (2011) and in UK 150,000. (2012 to 2013)

if you were to take those figures literally you could conclude that you are about 33% less likely to have an injury in Thailand, but if you do, you are 60 times more likely to die.....

[Jai Dee]

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