I was fortunate to come across the study guide for passing the India/Nepal driving license test. Apparently it's only three true/false questions. For your convenience I've posted the exam and answer key online.
1. The lines on the road matter.
2. The fact that you are careening toward an on-coming bus with cars blocking you on both sides is a cause for even the slightest concern.
3. You are Dale Earnhardt.
(Answer key. 1=False. 2=False. 3=True.)
Driving in India and Nepal is either a continuous stream of fear or miracles, depending on how you look at it. Time and time again while driving in a taxi cab, you find yourself in perilous situations almost unimaginable by Western standards. On one side you'll be blocked in by a car, a straight cliff promises certain death on the other side, and here you are, heading directly toward a bus. Surely you think, this must be the end. The properties of physics allow you no way to diver disaster under these circumstances.
Yet every time, somehow, someway, all the cars at once beep their horns, communicating by some telekinetic power, and the cars slither through each other in the seemingly only possible way they can fit on the road. Maybe one car almost crashes into a group of school children. Maybe the bus has half a wheel over the cliff. Yet, by an act of what can only be divine intervention, you are safe.
Surely a miracle such as this can only happen once in a lifetime.
Yet, 10 seconds you find yourself in the exact same predicament.
1. The lines on the road matter.
2. The fact that you are careening toward an on-coming bus with cars blocking you on both sides is a cause for even the slightest concern.
3. You are Dale Earnhardt.
(Answer key. 1=False. 2=False. 3=True.)
Driving in India and Nepal is either a continuous stream of fear or miracles, depending on how you look at it. Time and time again while driving in a taxi cab, you find yourself in perilous situations almost unimaginable by Western standards. On one side you'll be blocked in by a car, a straight cliff promises certain death on the other side, and here you are, heading directly toward a bus. Surely you think, this must be the end. The properties of physics allow you no way to diver disaster under these circumstances.
Yet every time, somehow, someway, all the cars at once beep their horns, communicating by some telekinetic power, and the cars slither through each other in the seemingly only possible way they can fit on the road. Maybe one car almost crashes into a group of school children. Maybe the bus has half a wheel over the cliff. Yet, by an act of what can only be divine intervention, you are safe.
Surely a miracle such as this can only happen once in a lifetime.
Yet, 10 seconds you find yourself in the exact same predicament.
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