Here Are Some Of The Most Bizarre Traffic Laws Around The World
There have been various stories circulating over the years regarding odd traffic laws in different countries, but how many of them are real? According to a Top 10 list compiled by FoxNews, quite a lot of them, actually.
The least weird is the one in Scandinavia that mandates that you must drive with the headlights on at all times, even during daytime. This is supposed to improve visibility in winter, but it applies for all seasons nonetheless.
Luxembourg slides into the 9th place with yet another bizarre law, which makes sure that all cars have windscreen wipers even if they lack a windscreen, while number 8 is reserved to San Francisco, where car wash business are banned from using used underwear to buff or dry a vehicle. No issue with civilians, though - they are free to use as many pants as they like.
Running out of petrol on the famous Autobahn is illegal in Germany, and if you're in Denver, Colorado and you own a black car, then you're not allowed to drive it on Sundays. Of course, that's a remnant from the past that's practically no longer enforced, and yet it is still there.
Trying to restrict heavy traffic in Manilla, the capital of Philippines, meant applying a law that forbids vehicles whose license plates end in a certain number from driving in various parts of the city at certain days; for example, if it ends in 1 or 2, you are not allowed to drive your vehicle into the city on Mondays.
Russia misses the top 3 by an inch, but it's home to a law that punishes drivers with dirty vehicles. Moreover, it is up to police officers to decide what qualifies as clean enough, and if they think yours is not, then they can give you a ticket.
Before starting their engines in Denmark, drivers need to check under their cars for anyone working there, or for children playing, while in Thailand, it's illegal for anyone to drive with their top off.
The golden medal goes to the state of Alabama, where the local authorities forbid driving with a blindfold on public roads. Common sense, you might say, but we guess something must have prompted the legislators to draft it into a law.
Link: http://www.carscoops.com/2017/06/here-are-some-of-most-bizarre-traffic.html
Yawn. These are about as exciting as those old "laws" you hear about in certain states or towns like "the man decides when the woman can cut her hair" or whateverthefuck.
Quote from: giant_mtb on June 28, 2017, 08:47:04 AM
Yawn. These are about as exciting as those old "laws" you hear about in certain states or towns like "the man decides when the woman can cut her hair" or whateverthefuck.
I would have thought that a law mandating clean vehicles would get you very excited.
Quote from: Galaxy on July 02, 2017, 05:52:57 AM
I would have thought that a law mandating clean vehicles would get you very excited.
:lol:
Trying to restrict heavy traffic in Manilla, the capital of Philippines, meant applying a law that forbids vehicles whose license plates end in a certain number from driving in various parts of the city at certain days; for example, if it ends in 1 or 2, you are not allowed to drive your vehicle into the city on Mondays.
This is not bizarre at all. We have a version of it and almost all cities in Colombia have a variation as well.
Quote from: MexicoCityM3 on July 04, 2017, 01:35:16 PM
Trying to restrict heavy traffic in Manilla, the capital of Philippines, meant applying a law that forbids vehicles whose license plates end in a certain number from driving in various parts of the city at certain days; for example, if it ends in 1 or 2, you are not allowed to drive your vehicle into the city on Mondays.
This is not bizarre at all. We have a version of it and almost all cities in Colombia have a variation as well.
In the '70s here, that was how they determined who could get gas on what day.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on July 06, 2017, 06:15:29 AM
In the '70s here, that was how they determined who could get gas on what day.
That really only lasted for a few months in 1973-74 during the Arab Oil Embargo, and a few weeks in 1979 until the gas lines abated.
Quote from: dazzleman on July 26, 2017, 07:36:47 PM
That really only lasted for a few months in 1973-74 during the Arab Oil Embargo, and a few weeks in 1979 until the gas lines abated.
They also did this after Hurricane Sandy in NJ for a while.
And many European countries were practicing it in the cities from time to time in the 80s and 90s to fight pollution.