Vietnam is amazing. Minimal gridlock and high mobility, due to lower requirements for purchase, hire, cost, licences. Safety is an issue, deaths are statistically high. But you know, with greater freedom comes greater responsibility.
As far as electric vehicles go, it has its own issues, and can empathize with parking being problematic to pedestrians but I think that's an area that would be easier to police. Over-policing restricts freedom.
I suppose, ideally, you want to encourage all forms of transport. As a pedestrian, I don't feel safe crossing multi-lane roads with any powered-vehicle! I get your point but we need vehicles. Affordable and reliable. I used Grab motorbikes to pick me up from airports. Never had a single problem.
In other countries, taxis used to be okay (as public companies) now it's just a hassle to hail one and not competitively priced.
I travel in SEA region a lot, personally it was never comfortable driving or sitting in ride or even walking in Philippines and Vietnam.
There is a huge lack of driving manner, no turn signal for making a turn/parking.
I myself got into a small traffic accidents even in China where it's quite a fair bit better, the driver didn't give way and had a bump.
But what I dislike the most is where there are too many ebikes/motorcycle driving up onto pedestrian way to park and exit parking especially because the population density is so high
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Yeah, I do to. Sure there's a trade off but I think it's unique to each location and driver/rider/pedestrian sensibilities are a very local thing.
I had a friend who was hit by a food delivery driver on an e-bike while walking along an alley way. She was born in the country it happened in. So, I do get your point.
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Mentioning PRC, I remember cities littered with heaps of public share bikes too. That was the country my friend got whacked from the scooter coming from behind.
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China had so much shared bikes it was pretty crazy, I actually walked past one of these dump. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/
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Jeez. They should recycle all that scrap into mining rigs
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