Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. - Car Talk (3)

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Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by GEJPosterity: 9:26am On Jul 01, 2016

4q:
The inability of Nigerians to keep to a lane on the road is an actual reflection of what the brain is doing at that time, switching between left and right hemisphere involuntarily.

This sounds very intriguing. Please do you have a link or citation for this? I'd be very interested in research in this.

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by kingreign(m): 9:45am On Jul 01, 2016

Raydos:
I Pray That One Day You'll Brush A Hungry-Nigerian Soldier.

Evil man. The prayer can't fit happen tongue

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by miqos02(m): 9:54am On Jul 01, 2016

gbadexy:
I feel your pain bro. The danfo buses are the worst. They don't check their side mirror and simply switch lane as they please.
You have to be alert to drive on lagos roads.

dem get side mirror?

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by 4q: 9:56am On Jul 01, 2016

GEJPosterity:
This sounds very intriguing. Please do you have a link or citation for this? I'd be very interested in research in this.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584251/

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Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by GEJPosterity: 9:57am On Jul 01, 2016

4q:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584251/

Thanks bro. Much appreciated.

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by MrGerald(m): 9:58am On Jul 01, 2016

kYjelly2:
Okay, so the government has done its job on some roads by providing clear lane markings, yet some or most motorists in Nigeria take these lane markings simply as decorations

I get soooooooo angry driving in Lagos sometimes, that I find myself cursing almost everyone.

Do they even realize how dangerous it is

You will be driving in ur lane, then some animal would now leave his lane and start veering into urs, like da fvck

What is so hard in driving straight and using ur turn signals when ready to switch lanes

Honestly, if I was white, I'd be a racist after witnessing this sort of jungle driving. I'd think that blacks are animals, true story.

The most annoying one is on a 3 lane road like lekki epe, when I'm driving on the extreme left lane and some mudafvcker in the middle lanenow has half of his car in his lane and the other half in my lane. In essence almost pushing me into the concrete sepetator on my left.

Why am I a Nigerian sef, why am I black

Don't even get me started with danfos and conductors hanging on the back of busses like real animals.

No law enforcement, nothing. Fvcking annoying

because they are zombies

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by timilehing(m): 10:40am On Jul 01, 2016

Reference:
Yes there is. And it gives you explicit instructions on how, when and in what circumstance to change lanes. Its in the traffic code.

Can you state them?

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by 18SNVL: 10:49am On Jul 01, 2016*

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by henryboff(m): 10:55am On Jul 01, 2016

kYjelly2:
Okay, so the government has done its job on some roads by providing clear lane markings, yet some or most motorists in Nigeria take these lane markings simply as decorations

I get soooooooo angry driving in Lagos sometimes, that I find myself cursing almost everyone.

Do they even realize how dangerous it is

You will be driving in ur lane, then some animal would now leave his lane and start veering into urs, like da fvck

What is so hard in driving straight and using ur turn signals when ready to switch lanes

Honestly, if I was white, I'd be a racist after witnessing this sort of jungle driving. I'd think that blacks are animals, true story.

The most annoying one is on a 3 lane road like lekki epe, when I'm driving on the extreme left lane and some mudafvcker in the middle lanenow has half of his car in his lane and the other half in my lane. In essence almost pushing me into the concrete sepetator on my left.

Why am I a Nigerian sef, why am I black

Don't even get me started with danfos and conductors hanging on the back of busses like real animals.

No law enforcement, nothing. Fvcking annoying

Bros oo you no suppose dey drive for the extreme left lane. This lane na for overtaking

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by Nobody: 1:04pm On Jul 01, 2016

When they say Nigeria is a zoo that's what they mean. The problem is not that people drive erratically, but that Nigerians have come to see it as normal is more disturbing.

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Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by wonlasewonimi: 2:45pm On Jul 01, 2016

You think they even notice any lanes on the road?

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by nextstep(m): 4:01pm On Jul 01, 2016

Some of it is due to idiot drivers, for sure. But look, 99% of our roads have potholes, nails and other rubbish at the margins, armed robbers and police waiting to waylay us; why won't we hug the center of the roads? That's the safest place to be so you can swerve to avoid all these other things I talked about. Also when it rains, most times the sides is where the water accumulates, hiding dangerous potholes.

After I've gotten used to driving on such crappy roads, you want me to automatically adjust for those 1% of the stretches that is smooth and lined? tongue

Don't worry, give it 3-6 months, that nice road will also develop large craters.

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by launchx431(f): 4:31pm On Jul 01, 2016

not in Nigeria, many places have this condition

Re: Why Is It Hard For Nigerians To Stay In Their Lanes While Driving. by heffem(m): 9:42pm On Jul 01, 2016

carmag:
Reckless driver sported

SPOTTED!!! and not SPORTED.......olodo rabata grin

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