I've been driving here a few months and honestly what the video shows seems tame and relaxed compared to what you normally see here. Wrong way drivers at night with no lights on, sewer holes with the manhole cover missing, people turning left across 3 lanes of traffic, 5 people on a motorcycle, one car passing another car as it passes a truck with both of them across double lines with oncoming traffic, dude in a wheelchair going the wrong way on a highway, a carrito (think 30 year old Honda Accord) with 10 people in it, huge bone rattling ruts in the road that come out of nowhere, cars getting around traffic jams by driving on the sidewalk, and on and on. Oh, and all of this happening with swarms of motorcycles all around you, all the time. And pedestrians. People either never turn on their blinkers or they are left on permanently. If people have headlights at all, the brights are often always on. Vehicles of all shapes and sizes often have tricked out lights, including red and blue lights that look like police. I've never seen anyone obey a stop sign, ever. The number of lanes on a road is completely fluid and can change in any moment. Stop lights seem completely optional for motorcycles and often optional for everyone else. At most intersections there is no official way to take turns, so everybody just kind of wings it. If you need to turn left, say a prayer, edge your car out into the intersection, and then eventually commit.
They truly are nuts. You should take a vid at rush hour driving around Plaza de la Bandera. That makes driving around the Arc De Triomphe in Paris feel like an empty junction in the middle of a desert!
@@cruisingalongproductions Crazy, if you WANT to obey the traffic lights (wait for a red light) the other "drivers" will try to honk you out of existence. Completely self centered and mindless.
“All” Of them are definitely not Haitian. There are some Dominicans are begging to survive to.. Offering to clean windshields and selling wipers, food etc. everyone’s out hustling on the streets not just Haitians
@@wolvesden7777 that’s the truth. Don’t know why they even paint lines. I have seen a 5 way stop over there with no stop signs. No lights. Whoever honks the most and is the most aggressive goes lol
This is nothing compared to driving in places like Medellin or Bogota Colombia. There are at least, without exaggeration, 100 times ore motorcycles on Colombian streets.
I just came from there can't believe no one uses turn signals driving culture is very poor also on the highway they camping in left lane and don't give a F if someone is behind i hope police enforce better rules over there
The pavement maybe the same but in Texas they don’t drive like that. Unless youre in the Bronx where there are Dominicans that learned to drive in Santo Domingo 🤣
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I've been driving here a few months and honestly what the video shows seems tame and relaxed compared to what you normally see here. Wrong way drivers at night with no lights on, sewer holes with the manhole cover missing, people turning left across 3 lanes of traffic, 5 people on a motorcycle, one car passing another car as it passes a truck with both of them across double lines with oncoming traffic, dude in a wheelchair going the wrong way on a highway, a carrito (think 30 year old Honda Accord) with 10 people in it, huge bone rattling ruts in the road that come out of nowhere, cars getting around traffic jams by driving on the sidewalk, and on and on. Oh, and all of this happening with swarms of motorcycles all around you, all the time. And pedestrians. People either never turn on their blinkers or they are left on permanently. If people have headlights at all, the brights are often always on. Vehicles of all shapes and sizes often have tricked out lights, including red and blue lights that look like police. I've never seen anyone obey a stop sign, ever. The number of lanes on a road is completely fluid and can change in any moment. Stop lights seem completely optional for motorcycles and often optional for everyone else. At most intersections there is no official way to take turns, so everybody just kind of wings it. If you need to turn left, say a prayer, edge your car out into the intersection, and then eventually commit.
@@davebrueck7886 and you are correct. This video doesn’t do it justice but for someone that has never driven in that environment, it gives a clue
This is like driving in New York or Boston, MA. Same craziness 😂😂
This place got even worst infrastructure
Different world but I always enjoy myself down there.
Confirmed, thank god the traffic is a bit less chaotic. SD is hell.
Not easy to drive there if you’re not used to it!
They truly are nuts.
You should take a vid at rush hour driving around Plaza de la Bandera.
That makes driving around the Arc De Triomphe in Paris feel like an empty junction in the middle of a desert!
Sounds like an epic video and a whole lot of stress being in a vehicle lol
Insane! Their inability/unwillingness to use simple turn signals is mind boggling. This alone would reduce accidents by at least 50%.
Encountered a 5 way stop at one point. No lights. No sighs. Just who beeps the most and just goes for it lol the driving down there is madness
@@cruisingalongproductions Crazy, if you WANT to obey the traffic lights (wait for a red light) the other "drivers" will try to honk you out of existence. Completely self centered and mindless.
😂 What’s the point of having traffic laws if nobody obeys them?
Not short on excitement
This is like driving in NY ever since they took over
Definitely get the Santo Domingo driving vibe in the Bronx lol
Had anxiety driving there
It is BRUTAL. I love being down there every time I go but hate being on the roads.
All those people standing in the middle of the avenues are Haitians, who move to the Dominican side in a desperate attempt to survive.
The Dominican / Haitian dynamic in Hispianola is quite the study.
“All” Of them are definitely not Haitian. There are some Dominicans are begging to survive to.. Offering to clean windshields and selling wipers, food etc. everyone’s out hustling on the streets not just Haitians
@@Startergvng you are correct
Are they not worthy of being mentioned??? Why would you mention them?? Y'all live on the same island
@@mattm5447It's obvious that you don't know what's happening in the Dominican Republic.
That's normal. What are y'all seeing that's making y'all comment about how "crazy" it is?
I think you answered your own question 🤷🏻♂️
Didnt look too bad from what i experienced in sd
Oh it definitely gets worse 😆
@@cruisingalongproductions i know lol.
Lmao I have driven here you need to be a savage 😂😂 it’s normal to us
Nothing but the truth there but don’t forget that you also need a horn that works very well for the vehicle 😂
@crusingalong does Google maps or waze work there to use as gps?
Absolutely!
Absolutely!
Yes, but its impossible to use autopilot on tesla
If you plan on driving in Dominican Republic take Vin Diesel with you it’s like Fast and Furious out there
That’s funny! If you can drive there you can drive anywhere lol
DUMMY DRIVERS
Watch ur mouth 😂
@@soulreallove WHATEVER
They were actually driving ok compared to some of the shit I've seen over there lol.
You are 100% correct. I shot that going down the road but was thinking “this would be even better if they were driving like they were yesterday” 🤣
@@cruisingalongproductions Funny thing is, If you try to obey the driving rules, most people in the DR will honk and yell that you can't drive lol.
@@wolvesden7777 that’s the truth. Don’t know why they even paint lines. I have seen a 5 way stop over there with no stop signs. No lights. Whoever honks the most and is the most aggressive goes lol
el que hizo el video se salió del expreso para volver a cogerlo mas adelante como buen dominicano dando el ejemplo
This is nothing compared to driving in places like Medellin or Bogota Colombia. There are at least, without exaggeration, 100 times ore motorcycles on Colombian streets.
Wow! One day I will have to verify for myself and make a new video
Why are this countries highways so weird the design doesn’t make to much sense half is like a normal and the other half is a highway
It’s an adventure in itself every time there.
I live in there and there are a lot of crazy haitian drivers.
Lot of crazy drivers is the fact of that
I just came from there can't believe no one uses turn signals driving culture is very poor also on the highway they camping in left lane and don't give a F if someone is behind i hope police enforce better rules over there
Turn signals? No, just a lot of honking horns
Police make it worse actually. They’re super underpaid, uneducated, corrupt, and don’t care enough for those reasons to do their job
The roads are like the US
The pavement maybe the same but in Texas they don’t drive like that. Unless youre in the Bronx where there are Dominicans that learned to drive in Santo Domingo 🤣
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