The Ipoh Adventure Part 7 - Driving

Driving in Malaysia is definitely not for the faint hearted. My top peeves include.

1. Those Modesnas that have riders who do not seem to value their lives. Paying scant heed to the rules of the road, it is not uncommon to see them shooting across the road ust as the traffic lights change in your favour. They also seem to have a deathwish, riding with one hand at 110km/h, using their feet to push a broken down comrade along the expressway, squeezing between cars from blind corners at incredibly high speeds et cetera.
2. Its official. Proton Perdana’s drivers are the craziest. They seem to take a morbid joy in tailgating you on the North-South Highway and then fart a big cloud of smoke as they overtake you with their inevitably modified exhausts. Is it the fact that they are 2.0l that makes their ego inflated?
3. Those coach buses that take people up and down the Malaysian Peninsular. I recall my trips to KL on these coaches. Now that I’ve seen how they are driven, I will seriously consider taking them again. You trust your lives in the hands of these drivers and fall asleep, only to wake up when you hit Pudu. What you don’t realise is that they overtake cars at 140km/h with impunity, swerve left and right within their lane as the driver floats in and out of sleep, tailgate huge lorries as they find space to overtake, et cetera. Do the drivers every consider that they are gambling with the lives of their innocent passengers?

But hey, if you can drive in Malaysia, you are can drive almost anywhere in the world.