Driving experience
I began driving at a tender age of 12 and I got my first driving licence in the year 1976. Since then I have been driving on the streets of Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi and many other places without one single incident of accident.
Today, for the first time I drove on the streets of Houston, Texas and the experience was weird not because of the left hand driven vehicle but because of the regulation. The maximum speed limit is the reason of my weird experience. On some roads the speed limit is 35 and on others it is 40, while driving within this speed limit, I felt like I was driving behind a rickshaw or something like that. The entire road that lies ahead is free, yet you cannot drive faster because of the existing rules. Back at home I could not drive peacefully because of rickshaws and here because of regulation. The speed limits on high ways and free ways are OK.
Houston seriously lacks public transportation, it thus occurred to my mind why America does not import the rickshaws from Bangladesh along with their pullers, thus helping each other. Houston gets the much needed environment friendly public transport maintaining the average speed of 35 miles per hour and Bangladesh relieves itself from the burden of population. There are many other places like Houston all over America, even if all the rickshaws are imported from Bangladesh, it shall not be noticeable.
I bet Bangladeshi drivers are the best in the world. The accidents that takes place every now and then is not due to the inefficiency of the drivers, rather because of absence of rules and their proper application.
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