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Road Safety - This topic has come up in numerous discussions all over the world but the one thing people get wrong is that they think it all depends on the infrastructure - The zebra crossings, the traffic lights, etc. but in fact it isn't because the one hard fact about road safety is that no matter how good the infrastructure is, it is the drivers which make a road safe to travel on. Even if there is a traffic light, it won't matter if the driver doesn't stop when its red, even if there is a zebra crossing, it won't matter if the driver doesn't stop when someone is crossing the road. Now I don't mean to say that the infrastructure doesn't play any role, what I am saying is that the driver plays a major role. Now a good example of this would be to compare crossing roads for a pedestrian in India and in Germany: In India on a typical busy street you can hardly find any crossings and even if you do, the cars won't stop for you, which makes crossing the