Traffic In India – ponpo

Like share market, traffic in india in unpredictable, govern by moods and sentiments of people, and nobody is spared, everybody tries his best but its the randomness – the higher entropy which governs the traffic.  Having said that, I mean a Truck driver, is not far from humiliation of 3rd degree if hits a rickshaw puller, no explanation requied, even if rickshaw puller was drunk and low at driving sense. Rich pals better beware of media, with 100 24*7 news channels, their courtmashal will occur with certainity over a hit and run case . Poor are poor anyways who do not have any place to drive cycles or walk on major highways but they also command full authority on their town roads, its their and a foreigner dare not challenge them about the driving sense on their home streets.

Let me come to horns, the most pervasive thing on indian roads! Indian drivers are so habitual of honking as if 4th law of Newton states that only on honking, wheels move (who’s wheels – of the idiot in front :-)), especially on one-way it is tough to convince the driver that in a one-way moving traffic everybody around him wants to move forward, nobody has arrived on the road to stand still and meditate or do dharna but still horn has to be blown to remind everybody – lets keep moving.

Game Theory, the branch of applied mathematics (heard of Beautiful Mind – John Nash) can be invariably applied to Indian Traffic as it is applied in areas where an individual success in making choices depends on the choices of the others…My earlier line carries the subtle answer, in india people honk horns just to tell others that time is moving out , slipping away and the KAAL is coming closer and guess what, we need to reach our destination, as our options are limited on road, we need to prompt others to give us way, so lets not slow down, even if its a jam keep your mind racing at 110km/hr