American
drivers, imagine a busy intersection in a large city with no traffic
lights and no traffic cops. This is the condition in many cities around
the world. This intersection is in Meskel Square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The thing that keeps drivers from constantly crashing is the idea that
no one has any right-of-way, and you just go when you can, stop when
someone is in front of you, and don’t hit anyone. Could the famously
traffic law-abiding American drivers deal with such a system? Probably
not, because we are concerned with who has the right-of-way, and tend to
get a little hostile when someone causes us a two-second delay in our
travels.
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