My Didi driver or Uber to you, was quite cute and her driving for the most part was very good.  However I couldn’t help but notice a few little problems with her driving.  The main one being the fact that the interior mirror was being used as a hanger for all manner of things and all I could see was the roof through it.  I’m sure if she looked at it she would have seen less than me.  There were also many cute toys and things plastered all over the dashboard and the techno Chinese music being played was interesting.

Her driving technique was interesting too. 2nd gear was engaged after about half a second but the shifts through to fifth were very smooth.  Coasting seems to be a big part of driving here and even the bus drivers do this a lot,  which I find quite scary because you can sometimes smell the brakes. But I am not complaining about my Didi driver,  but I am intrigued how she and many other drivers can happily and confidently drive without using the rearview mirror 😎 I think there must be some Chinese 6th sense at play here.