In many Chinese cities, the entire ticketing process is entirely automated. You will log onto a specific website every few weeks/months, and find out whether you have any tickets against you.
Police in asian countries are not like police in the US. In all the time i've spent there I have never EVER seen 1 cop write a ticket or pull someone over for a traffic infraction. The cops there just do not cruise around looking for offenders like over here. From what I saw, the only time people get stopped is at checkpoints and even then i've never seen a cop write ticket.
if you have compliments about the good 'ole US of A, then they are much welcomed. Travel broadens the mind, and from the stories that I continue to hear about the 3rd and 4th world conditions, being worse than reading a novel of fiction or watching one of these Mad Max movies gone wild... Hope springs eternal, but reality persists....
Come on now, the US is the freest country in the world. If you believe their is corruption, you have complete and utter freedom to share that info with everyone. Not so in China. Buck the system in China, and you'll be jailed or killed.
What planet called China are you talking about? The police don't issue tickets unless you demand them to. You just pass money out the window, and it goes into their pockets. Except in rare occasions when there is a government sponsored event.
Good question. We are obviously talking about different planets. Here's a link to the traffic ticketing system for over 100 different cities in China: http://sz.bendibao.com/cyfw/2006814/fw2436.asp Same site mentions a new service in Shenzhen I find interesting... Register your cell phone, and they will text you if they find your car illegally parked. You ha ve ten minutes to move.
Apparently the design has been approved for use in a district of Beijing (as of yesterday), and it is going into actual engineering/production. Timeline looks like this: - initial prototype manufactured within 3 months, - laying of rails might start by the end of this year, - July 2011, trial runs. - end of 2011, actual operation. http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2010-08-25/045520968616.shtml
Since accidents are an inevitability, it will be interesting to see how this thing deals with a highway-speed impact.
I believe high-speed bus systems in China are designed on average to travel around 30 km/h, or approximately 25 mph. These things don't travel on the equivalent of the interstate.