Calvin27 wrote:... migrants who have different perceptions of pedestrian-vehicle interaction.
Thanks Calvin because I agree with that multicultural factor although I am not going to speculate without statistics that nobody would have the courage to determine. I had a really memorable GOOD example of multicultural driver awareness yesterday, just pulling off the highway into a 'modified' side-street in the Big Truck.
There is a badly designed T-intersection been added in recent years since CAD became popular down at the main roads, and the radius of the corner is too tight for my Big Truck. It is as big as a Cadillac in length and breadth, so I need to either run the LHR wheel over the kerb turning left or else steer the front out wide across the centreline of the side-street to corner gracefully.
Yesterday afternoon there was a small white car just coming onto the 'extra' road designed with CAD sans actually driving it to find out, right as I turned into the corner, and I saw it, and I could have swung tight and hopped my back wheel up on the grass, but the little white car stopped for me!
He let do my turn without needing to jump up on the kerb with the LHR wheel, which was such a generous, courteous and unexpected gesture! I had to give him a sign, but I couldn't work out whether thumbsup or OK was appropriate so I just did both to indicate, "Thanks, mate!"
As I went past, I saw the driver and I could tell by his face that he was probably taught to drive somewhere in North-Eastern Africa. This was an example of multicultural courtesy, and I will remember his courtesy. I only hope that such an aware gentleman would do the same for a cyclist riding around the corner if they needed some extra room.