Afghanistan

Single-occupancy vehicle norms

In Afghanistan, Security, Transportation on 28 August 2008 with no comments

Jan Chipchase discusses single-occupancy vehicles in two (increasingly convergent?) contexts. In Los Angeles, single-occupancy is the norm; you won’t get any weird looks from fellow commuters. In Kabul, Afghanistan—where the occasional suicide bomber prefers to drive alone—security-minded drivers are more likely to give you both weirder looks and a wider berth.
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