Door 16: Beamer, Benz and Bentley (the traffic)

Very difficult topic. On the one hand, we don't want to encourage prejudice here, on the other hand... very, very difficult topic. Traffic can be described as exciting, individual, even creative. We are glad that China does not accept our international driver's licenses, because that would not have ended well. Anyone who delves too deeply into the "why & how" of the driving practices here is doomed to madness. Best way to survive any ride: take a nap.

But let's have some fun, there are plenty of reasons why the traffic doesn't flow as smoothly as in our home country of drivers. Because not a day goes by when we don't see at least one rear-end collision on our one-hour commute to work.

On the one hand, there is the length of time that cars have been available to this extent. At the time of the 1990 reunification, the majority of families in China only had a bicycle. Today, BMW is lined up behind Ferrari and Tesla, China is, in many ways, the largest market. Accordingly, the car driving culture is young.

On the other hand, there is no driver's education like in Germany and the exams are said to be made up of partly absurd questions. Until a few years ago, you could even pay an agency to take the exam for you. Accordingly, we are constantly confronted with interesting, incomprehensible, and also funny situations on the topic. All too often, a forklift truck is coming towards us. Forklift driver Klaus does not seem to belong to the mandatory program of employers' liability insurance associations. Too bad, it's always worth seeing.