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The golf cart tuk tuks are usually relegated to the slow lane (25km/hr, usually seperated from main traffic with a median strip, shared with bicycles and ebikes alike) they're also really uncommon in cities, primarily seen in rural areas.

This car looks like it's about halfway between those and a smart car so the safety features are going to be pretty critical if it's sharing the road with full size cars full time.

China's traffic is generally slow and always feels dangerous, moving much more like water compared to Australia and the US where it's fast and feels safe all the time until it's suddenly fatal. Due to the nature of traffic the safety profile requirements there don't quite match those in the west.



China's traffic feels more dangerous because it is: they have 50% more auto accident related deaths than the USA does (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...). My Hunanese wife's dad was killed by one of those loosely regulated and very dangerous blue trucks (if you live in China, you know what I mean). I've seen someone die in a traffic accident before in Beijing (this person was biking across the street (dongzhimen wai) against a red light, and got hit by a taxi cab trying to beat the light before it turned red the other way). You can never really get that image/sound out of your head (and things slow down when you see it, to be fair, the cyclist was clearly at fault, but the taxi driver was also speeding).




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