{"id":4471,"date":"2015-10-06T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T09:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matsalah.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2015-10-06T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T09:44:47","slug":"the-malaysian-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"The Malaysian U-Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just installed front and rear view cameras in our Peugeot (yes, sorry we have a French car &#8230;. and love it), I thought posting some of the more memorable incidents on here would be an interesting exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia is fairly reknown for the total disregard of the concept of a highway code and some of the examples are note worthy!!<\/p>\n<p>We will see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>For this first incident, watch the rear looking cam and note the Atlas Edible Ice truck that pulls up to my left hand side at the traffic lights.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4471-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Altlas-Edilble-Ice-Driving-Rear.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Altlas-Edilble-Ice-Driving-Rear.mp4\">https:\/\/matsalah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Altlas-Edilble-Ice-Driving-Rear.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then watch (this time from the front camera) what this truck does once the light turns green. Yes&#8230;&#8230; he does a complete U-turn directly across the front of my car &#8211; from the left hand lane beside me<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4471-2\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Altlas-Edilble-Ice-Driving.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Altlas-Edilble-Ice-Driving.mp4\">https:\/\/matsalah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Altlas-Edilble-Ice-Driving.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kuala Lumpur is U-Turn city; and everyone does them, whether signed as legal or not. You really cant go anywhere without at least one U-turn being being required &#8211; even if its just to the local shops. But this sort of rash, dangerous and disconcerting driving is not so common place fortunately &#8211; although Sean says <em><strong>&#8220;quite normal&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the number plate is not clear enough to read in this video. I did try to find a suitable email or other digital contact for Atlas Edible Ice, so that I could\u00a0forward this evidenciary\u00a0video to them , but it seems that Atlas Edible Ice have yet to move into the 21st century. Still firmly rooted in the 20th century (along with their driving habits) it would seem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just installed front and rear view cameras in our Peugeot (yes, sorry we have a French car &#8230;. and love it), I thought posting some of the more memorable incidents on here would be an interesting exercise. Malaysia is fairly reknown for the total disregard of the concept of a highway code and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[17,39,74,101],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysian-driving-antics","category-rants","tag-atlas-edible-ice","tag-driving","tag-malaysia","tag-u-turn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsalah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}