On: India’s electric rickshaws

[mangamadaiyan]

Try crossing the road as a pedestrian in Bangalore. It's even more of an extreme sport.

[lazide → mangamadaiyan]

One of my favorite memories was getting across the street to a restaurant with some noobs in front of one of the FAANG offices in Bangalore - high traffic times, so no way to do so on foot without a noob ending up dead.

An auto rickshaw, 15 minutes, and two different bribes to the traffic police did the trick though.

[mangamadaiyan → lazide]

Were the bribes needed because the rick was overloaded, or because the rick went the wrong way, or both?

[lazide → mangamadaiyan]

It was the only way to do the turns necessary to get there in 15 minutes due to heavy traffic. The traffic police were blocking them.

[xenospn → mangamadaiyan]

I was visiting our office in Delhi, (Gurgaon), And the only way to get lunch was to cross a busy highway with no pedestrian bridges, experiencing what I can only describe as a deadly vortex of entropy.

I think I can add that to my list of near death experiences for sure.