Seat Belts

When most people are little their parents always tell them to wear seat belts. Those parents have never been to much of Asia.

I don't drive over here (I do sometimes ride motorcycles/mopeds on occasion) so I tend to take a lot of cabs. Or when I am in Cambodia I take a lot of tuk tuks to get to and from customers. The thing is that those two modes of transport rarely if ever have seat belts here in Asia.

Honestly, I have been hear a year and a half now and I can probably count on two hands the number of cabs I've been in that actually have seat belts in the back seat. This is true of most of the major Asian cities I've been too: Beijing, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Taipei, Kaoshiun, Phnom Penh, Bangkok... None of these places have seat belts in the back seats.

Problem is that none of these places have good drivers either. So if there is any place in the world that could use seat belts to protect against the effects of crazy drivers it is all of those cities.