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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
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Notes on driving in Tel Aviv
(I know I should be writing about politics now, but that's going to be an extremely involved post) - Traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, with certain exceptions noted below.
- Lane markings, if present, are purely advisory. Cars should drive wherever there is not already another car.
- Turn signals and hazard lights don't convey any information, so don't use them. The horn works instead.
- Parking occurs wherever one manages to stop the car, typically as far right as the car can get. Depending on the circumstance, this means either on the sidewalk, in the parking lane, in the rightmost traffic lane, or in some other lane of traffic.
- Two-wheeled motorized vehicles (motorcycles, Vespas, etc) travel wherever they can get away with. This is one of the exceptions to the rule about right-hand driving.
- Getting ahead is very important. If two lanes are about to merge (or rather, if the road is narrowing so that merging is pretty much necessary) head right and accelerate; see if you can pass the person in front of you before it's too narrow.
- Do not let anyone get in or pass you. The repeated Prisoner's Dilemma with many players and no repeat interactions has only one stable equilibrium, and Tel Aviv is in it. If you let someone in, not only will several people force their way in, but other people will pass you from the left and the right simultaneously to get into the gap.
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