World's Most Dangerous Roads - Top Gear - India Special - BBC Two
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer đ bbc.in/iPlayer-Home More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ydx6 The Top Gear presenters face unique challenges during an epic road trip accross India.
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Fun fact : this is not even the most dangerous road in india
Yeah, not even close. đ đ
God, how bad is it lmao
Cormax itâs really bad
@@rangga7550 it's the worst nightmare's nightmare.
Yeah. These smooth highways are nothing bad infront of many remote villages and town roads. Specially in Himalayas. Its two way transport on a one lane road
Indian traffic lights
Green: Go
Yellow:Go fast
Red: Check if there's a cop, then go
Hahaha..............
1 rickshaw driver was horning at me for not jumping the red light and then he overtakes and starts putting hand gestures
that about sums it up. Especially, in the UP region.
no that sums up my country as well cyprus
Jaiditya Singh haha đ
Traffic lights: In the US, they are instructions. In Delhi, they are recommendations. In Bangalore, they are decorations.
Lol
Well said. Now people do obey them at least in Ahmedabad because of increased fines, but still they drive like maniacs.
& in kerala we don't even have a traffic light đ€đ€đ€
@@jithinrajk.p5637 ipol und but its always yellow.. vere light kathiyal edhelum kallan rathri thattikond poi vilkum.
Spoken like someone who has never been in Bengaluru. They fine you for everything here.
Imagine Tesla being autonomous on these roads.
Autodrive.exe has stopped working
Pretty sure at some point, that giant screen in the Tesla is just going to show a giant middle finger
Skynet starts from an autonomous AI program in a connected car on an Indian highway.
This is their perfect test ground
Probably would get rekt by an old man on ancient scooty HA
"road narrows for no obvious reason".
My guess is that they ran out of asphalt and just said "fuck it, that's good enough".
Classic India
lol! kinda true
The guy who owned that patch of land must challenged the acquisition in court and the case is still undecided.
GReDDY WupS That was lame and stupid.
A.D. DAS That's one heck of a comeback!
The scary thing is all the really bad drivers who get killed and kill others, just re-incarnate and come back to do it again.
+Sean Coyne yeah, re-incarnate as taxi drivers!!
+Will Bonville he ment a cow but alright
JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU HINDUISM!!!
Cows are considered as gods, not reincarnated people
Accidents don't just kill occupants, it kills pedestrians more; Its absurd to compare No of vehicles with fatalities. Britain has just 64 Million in population whereas India is one of the most populous nation in the world.
Over here in delhi NCR the government has done an absoluting amazing thing to solve the problem of traffic and pollution especially in monsoons. They have removed all the drains from the roads so that we also get the alternate option to swim to work instead of driving. Also all the underpasses are specially converted into Olympic grade swimming pools to promote sports in the younger generations.
Kejriwal is keeping his promise to make Delhi world class city I see
Bhai Bhai Bhaiđđ
Bhakt spotted.
@@ShreyMittal16 lmao yes
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Most places in the world: Tons of rules, regulations, signs etc. to keep roads safe.
India: *ROAD IS ROAD*
And sometimes footpath is road too
@@gautamvaze1101 I know what you did there đ salman bhai
@@gautamvaze1101 I see you drive like seImon bhai
@@gautamvaze1101 Selmon bhai wants to know your location.
Correction: everything is road
"Your father will be very crossed with you IF he gets home" HAHAHA
i died when he said that too lmfao
@Beep Bop Tragedy = Comedy
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In south asia the dad isnt going to kill him its the mother.
Canât go wrong with a bit of dark humour
Driving in India is really competitive and I've been there and done it myself. Trust me, If you can drive in India, You can drive anywhere on earth!
Yeah man, that's the point. India's traffic is the hardest mode in a driving test, if you can drive in it, then only you can drive on any road in the whole world, or even further. Every country should have implement that whoever is going for a world ride, then he must pass a driving test in Indian Roads. Only then he will be able to go for that ride.
It's actually not true, I've been living in India for 24 years and recently moved to Aus, sure it's easier to drive, but adjusting to actual motor laws and discipline was hard for me
Well if you can drive in India, you can fly boeing 727 blindfolded.
If you can drive in india, you can drive even on moon!!!
Yeah man, I became a SpaceX pilot with my two wheeler's learner license.
Me throughout the video: What are they complaining about? Atleast they are on the "road"
Come monsoon and it's like driving on the moon
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Bored Potato: Oh wow, interesting!
As an indian I can assure you guys that you were driving on one of the best and safest roads in the country đ
Nope
Nope
Ever been to Kerala ? :D
Kaunse India mein rehte ho sir?
@@princebharadia7015 asli india me tum amir logon ko kya pata
"Jesus... Look at that... I mean Ganesh... Look at that..."
lmao.. that was funny.
I am a Muslim and I don't have anything to do with it but dude that was offensive
Mr. Imperfect
not offensive at all
Mr. Imperfect How is that offensive?
Mr. Imperfect
Well, he explained it, he is a Muslim. That's why he's offended.
Worst roads? More like some of the best roads in India. You haven't seen the bad ones yet boys.
There's worse, mountain roads in the Middle East, motorways in South Africa, the B5366 in Leicester, etc. etc.
yeah? feel free to visit my state Jharkhand.
+Kaushik Vedula most people won't know it on a map that's how much they give a Shit
don't get butthurt
kaihtheloner yeahhh, you tell em'
kaihtheloner so true
If you can drive in India, you can drive anywhere in the universe.
Even on the Event Horizon of a black hole
definately not
we literally fired an indian that moved from india just a few years ago who was a taxi driver because he was so bad/dangerous at driving
Thats absolutely false. If you drive in India you develop bad habits that won't be welcoming in other countries. Don't walk around like our roads and driving sense is our pride, its shameful actually.
I mean, you do need a drivers license in other part of the world :b
Sudden potholes, people, dogs and cows on the road make indians very reactionary drivers.. and indian bus and truck drivers are very very skilled..
I'd love for the trio to visit India again, the roads have improved a lot in the last few years but there are still a lot of people reluctant tobdrive safely.
Was I watching a Mad Max film?
+TraustiGeir LOL! Nice one dude!
+Luffy Monkey Thank you.
TraustiGeir Mad Max 5: Ordeals of Kali
Luffy Monkey Perfect.
kinda similar
driving on indian roads is not for the faint hearted
Atul Katti vietnam is as just as bad.
+Michael Jagger I went to Saigon, the roads are just seas of mopeds, but surprisingly not many accidents happen there
Try visit jakarta then & try regular roads & highways if you talk about adventure in a life time
only for those who want to commit suicide
it's not a thing to proud of. You dumb head.
me as an indian watching that everything is fine
Nine years later, I can say that overloaded and overcrowded vehicles are rare sight nowadays
you are probably living in a rich area
@@JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideos travelling on national highway is not a luxury, I think; now police will stop you if their are 3 people on your motorbike and they also stops overloaded trucks
@@kartiksharma7440 Yes because a ''national highway'' represents all indian roadsđ€Ł
and notice u said rare to see, when it should be non existant on ''national highways'' ! rare is still not good enough
Did you go to USA ?
YA They are very less in no. but they do exist .
Indian driving rules:
1. Humans
You nailed all the points, quite spectacularly.
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But why should I use my right mouse button all the time?
I'm an Indian and it's pretty much true. đ€đ
zq true that dude!
driving in mumbai at night in rain and on potholes is a once in a lifetime experience!!
lol
Litteraly for some, I would assume.
That on bike
You mean highway to hell
@@the_parallax_traveller_ share auto
0:33 Poor lady was about to throw up.
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Keen observer
Train safety PSA: "It's always an old person going to wrong way on a dual carriageway."
No Jeremy, in India everyone drives the wrong way.
Rules to follow while driving in India:
1. Bigger the car more rights you have on road.
2. Traffic lights are used only if you see someone coming the other way.
3. Dont stop for anything unless you want to piss.
4. Indicators are for losers.
5. Who gives a Fu*k you are just another human.
6. Biggest of all.. Keep that Horn working, so everyone can you are coming.
7. Do not waste an inch on road if you can fit through, just go for one of our million god will take care of rest.
...or if there's a cow on the road.
lol
There are many dogs also
Come on that's why we are the pitty third world. And our mind set will never let us to be a devloped one..
Arupananda Gope we are a developing country not a develop country... and accept this what he said ... by the way we don't have time to follow traffic rules.. we always honking without any reason and some morons says it's an Indian style wtf.. I can accept this England is better than our INDIA in everything.. our India is also famous for most corrupted country in the world...
I am from India..and have to tell you people here drive like shit. Traffic conditions are terrible. Not because they are bad drivers (may be some) but mostly because of the attitude "me first". No one here has the patience to wait or give way not even to an ambulance. Highways are still ok, but the cities are much worse.
Indiaâs shite
Make strict traffic laws.
GoldenIolaire the people make the country. Theyâre horrid
@Shashank Royal t Are you seriously so up your own ass that you think all news outlets around the world care to inform on the state of indian roads?
@@jayeshpattamatta8958 No I'm notđđ. What gave it away
I have driven up and down this road three times in my life, each journey being roughly 5 to 6 hours long ( NEVER DID IT AT NIGHT, I'M NOT CRAZY !!).
I literally saw 6 dead bodies on the road in all those 3 drives combined. One of the accidents was so gruesome I don't really wanna describe it. Mind you I did wake my sleeping friends in the car to have a look, which they still bring up now and then while abusing me.
These trips were Circa 2005 to 2009, when the road... if you can believe it was even worse.
Serious Kudos to you guys for this, some of the stuff you did on this video was seriously dangerous. many people in India drive like they're literally playing a video game.
I'm happy to report that this road in 2022 is in far far better condition, but the video game driving continues :(
Their experience has been pretty tame so far. Try driving through fog or rain at night on a two lane broken road with oncoming trucks travelling at twice the speed you are while random people and cows decide to play frogger.
1:36 - 1:40 - Fast and Furious move
rockandclassiccars yeah it was quite ballsy of hamster to pull that off in a mini
It's something you do every single day in India
I was not surprised by the statistics Clarkson gave. Living in India I had figured that the number would be greater.
If a death statistic is reported, multiply by a factor of 10.
@@shashankchiripal5451 obviously. Take covid for example.
Multiplier to inversely proportional to GDP per capita IMO,
Given the country is not a Dictatorship
Many of the road accidents are not even registered, so maybe add 25% more in the figure
The statistics he gave was moronic. He was comparing the numbe rod vehicles of India and UK and then corellating with number of deaths. What kind of idiotic logic is that? Comparing apples to oranges.
If you're going to compare the number of accidents, then sure compare the number of vehicles on the road in each country.
But if you're going to compare fatality rates, compare the population and average life expectancy and not the number of cars. That is just idiotic.
Major fact: the road they travelled on was actually good
Seeing the commenters, everybody agreeing about the road conditions....
It's sad, but kind of wholesome at the same time. đ
I went on a trip throughout India, and I nearly pissed myself several times while we were driving. One of our drivers actually said to me, "In India, you need 3 things: a good horn, a good brake, and good reactions."
Edit: Wow, thatâs a lot of likes! Thanks!
Liam Weaver lmao.
Liam Weaver+ Your driver was right.
And good driving skills.
Well said, that man
Went with my dad on a trip to Durban, South Africa to visit family in 2016. Mix this with NYC and that was roughly what it was like, absolutely ridiculous.
GTA India :D
Main difference is the player will be driving safely while others drive recklessly
+Diveen Varma lol, actually player tried to ;)
That sounds like a brilliant idea!
It would be a very short game though. Possibly that could be solved by autosaving every 3 feet.
GTA India Online
Me(An Indian) still wondering when the Dangerous part of the road will come.
It's not the roads that are dangerous, it's the âexpertâ drivers that make them really dangerous.
Also, there are much better & well-lit roads in India these days especially in the West.
when it comes road attention, reaction time and anticipation Indian drivers are to be among the best in the world. it is like driving in some game where all of a sudden an obstruction pops up from no where...
Also great is the knowledge of the Vehicle dimensions.. indian drivers can go in, come out of anywhere..
That is so shockingly true
I am from India and approve it even after years of broadcast of this episode
seems like nothing has changed
good 'ol Indian
Neil Samuel true...its fustrating..but i feel the roads are getting better with the new generation.
Neil Samuel its better now
+Muslim Santa claus I live in Delhi and it's just stuck in progress.
but we are way behind the world
Neil Samuel well u voted for an idiot
nah its not this bad in the south lol
love that you captured this! This is probably my favorite top gear episode!
*8 years later*
CZcams: want to watch dangerous roads of India? They never get old
Driving in india is not for transportation, its for enjoyment..
When we get tired by daily routine life, we start driving.
+MagnificentKot that was the most stupidest thing I've ever seen , even on CZcams
Hold on there, tigers. let's concentrate on the road. As a matter of fact, road conditions are improving everyday and trust me, that's a FACT!
TF
MagnificentKot let it out little man
Lol... sure it is for enjoyment! Nothing says "enjoyment" like those broken down lorry drivers ENJOYING themselves huddled under a truck at night while death passes by 3 feet away every half a second.
I really think it's funny how Hammond unknowingly painted the Mexican flag on the hood of his car instead of the Indian Flag. Thanks for the laughs hamster. LOL
I'm pretty sure that's an Italian flag, bro.
+wkndr4life No it is a Mexican flag because it's got the thing in the middle. Google it if you don't believe me.
@@wkndr4life it's a Mexican flag!!! #Andale
Umm.. You do realize it was obviously staged, don't you?
He was just sticking it to India once again since his country developed on looting India and Indians for centuries.
In the definition of a good road is that it is smooth and free from potholes and speedbumps. Proper driving etiquette from other drivers , road markings and safely lit vehicles is a luxury.
Our India's got a hypothetical "World License". You drive in India, you can drive Anywhere.
Wow, that is nerve-wrecking to watch. I feel bad for Hammond in the Mini, squeezing between lorries and whatnot.
And I bet Jeremy would love to have the horn from his 600 Grosser right there.
this is way overrated ,thank god he want illed,he was doing a dangerous procedure knowingly,In india trucks & bus move on extreme right of highway,as they are moving at high speed & these big heavy vehicles are hard to stop...moving them continously to left & right disrupts the smooth traffic flow.All you have to do is go to middle lane & horn them then overtake ,this is dangerous ,if you try to pull ur vehicle between the two trucks there may be a chance the truck on left have to shift little bit right(may be due to some parked car on left),you will get crushed
those are some of the best roads in india! you haven't seen the bad stuff boys!
You learn to drive in India, you can drive anywhere
Here, we can see BMWs being overtaken by a 1993 Maruti 800 with a leaky oil pan at midnight on a road filled with potholes and drunk truck drivers.
These are actually one of the best, if it was one of the worst, I could imagine the Mini's underside turning to mangled scrap after hitting a pothole and the RR puncturing its Silencer etc etc
Top gear : this is the most dangerous road...
Me : This one seems comparatively safer...
9 years, 245,000 kms in a suzuki WagonR! I concur with the observations. Most ill mannered traffic ever, I mean ever!!!
3:34 Toyota Dealership
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Kudos to the drivers for taking such a risk.
Trust me, you don't want to know what else you missed last night on the highway
You can hear in this clip other cars honking. That is actually them talking to one another.
They communicate by using their horns to avoid one another. It isn't like the rest of the world where the horn means "FUCKING GO". This is how they can drive in such a frantic way.
+zzzhuh also, the big trucks do honk, to keep the other drivers awake.!
+zzzhuh it clearly doesnt work well
Sometimes we use headlight to communicate too.
if you want a thrill in driving and if you cannot afford a supercar...well...drive in india..
We have a well known understanding;
if you see a Milk Lorry or a Water Lorry, stay away from it, if you get near it it's death for certain.
The brakes on those don't work half the time. đ
You should definitely visit India during monsoon and test out the city roads and bring a jeep along to do so.
1:53 WRONG the mother would slap the child
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There is one good thing about this type of driving, if you don't know where you are going, no one is going to get angry at you for being in the 'wrong lane' and holding them up. In some ways that makes it easier. Just find your exit and make your way to it.
'I mean ganesh look at that'
Ahh May...lol
I was laughing out loudly watching this episode, boys you haven't seen the bad roads yet...HA HA HA
The respect and value for life over there, from being there Is so insignificant it is actually unbelievable
Lol they makin them look like a mission impossibe dangerous road like docu.
1:32 Overtaking From the left in a right hand drive car and making the already deadly road deadlier đ
Can confirm the roads and drivers there are mental. I once travelled with my driver for the day and he overtook an ambulance while it had its lights flashing. I slapped him on the shoulder and said no, do not need to do this, he replied with it's ok, no problem. đ€Ș
@3:17 Only now we could actually see what was going to kill us.!!!!! LOL..
0:43 what the hell?!
Welcome to my world
yep, overloaded vehicles are quite common here
@@harshwardhandadhe4629 you play valorant??
These same people come up on CZcams and comment how india is most advanced and hyper developed.
Indians are very funny chaps.
@RNIK no, I won't. I've visited india and would like know how much of a bigger craphole it is that I might've missed it during my trip.
Hahah, I haven't been so terrified while actually driving on Indian roads the way I've been while watching this video.
"i wonder How much else we missed last night"
HAHAHAHAHAHA EPIC!!!!!!
Suck on that Kiwis! We don't need your weird contraptions for an adventure. We go out for a drive. :D
+RJ Nair yeaaa..so true man
+RJ Nair their british people...
i hate when indians say "indian drivers can drive anywhere in the world". just think if they drive like that what will happen.
+NIYAZ NAZAR if we drive like that then the result will be 196000 road deaths in a year, which is 22 in an hour. :P
+Padam Singh lol...just think if they drive in japan. it would be more than 196k.
+NIYAZ NAZAR, We'll rack up a lot of tickets that's for sure...
+Captain Slow GT86 Yup, true that. I thought that driving in Indonesia is hell. But apparently this is far worse.
+MagnificentKot You're all kinds of "special"
Some of the greatest scholars in the US are of indian descent. I guess the smart people flee the insanity.
Facts.
In India we cross roads by using the super power called "Faith". Majority of us wanna die, because most of us are engineers, can't because our reflexes are good.
"Road narrows for no obvious reason" LMAO!
wow , things are improving a lot now ... last year I was doing 190 kmph on yamuna expressway with my family and that felt đŻ% safe in my 5/5 ncap star rated Ford ... and well built expressway ...
Yes, the road is good but it is the problem, people will speed in dark and accident is likely. If the roads are not good (of course it's bad) but the speed is not enough for a serious catastrophe.
People often say Indian drivers can drive anywhere else in the world. Not exactly. Indian drivers can SURVIVE anywhere else in the world. Not sure about the others on the road tho.
The thing is, drivers don't follow the rules in india..!! If u just turn your head out of the road while driving, You'll die..!! They maintain very less space between vehicles..!! That's why thing happens very fast...!! No Need to mention separately about unpredictable encounters of vehicles or animals from road sides...!!
Its funny to watch them struggling .guess you were surprised seeing trucks changing lanes..lol drive in india for a year and your a Pro .. :)
Full beam headlights on single lane roads would be novel experience
Thankfully, the situation has improved in past 9 years. Either the roads are jam packed like in cities thus your vehicle can't achieve more than 20-25kmph avg speed. Or they're empty to be forgiving enough.
we drive here everyday and its nothing scary at all.. if you drive in india, you can drive anywhere else without fear
ak b poo in loo
You can drive without fear, but everyone else who sees you on the road will shit themselves.
1:35 look at that, hammond in racing movie scene
I drove through Indonesia with motorbike for three months, i survived but you can not imagine the traffic. It's not that the roads are dangerous, it's the people driving on it
1:34 - Wow !! That was daring, Hammond.
"What a monumental bellend he is." - Jeremy Clarkson
BBC doing their as usual job...
It's an old video, it is genuinely what it was like back then
@@fiftyfive1s410 its still the same
@@fiftyfive1s410 its still the same
Probably one of the best episodes.. And the Vietnam episode
Oh I miss these good old roads that used to be there
I hate driving beside trucks :(
waffle much?
Driving next to trucks is fine unless you live in a shit country called india
I don't know, the amount of trailers the ozzies put on their trucks kinda freak me out, and that would probably be a little scary to drive alongside at night, mind you though, theirs might be properly lit
You are right. Here's is the proof why you hate driving beside trucks czcams.com/video/deqo6pNxPDo/video.html
@@edwardharriss1463 This video may be related to what you are saying czcams.com/video/deqo6pNxPDo/video.html
haha you guys have balls driving in my country just like that, i'll give you that.
Best part of this video is James' revenge on Jeremy.
I love how he described the no. of road deaths in India.
"Your father will get very cross IF he comes home." XDDDD
Glad I live in the civilized clean country of Canada with safe roads.
OH yeah. I really want to die soon. wtf?
Oh yeah... Come to India once and you will have the experience of a lifetime....
***** You forgot #YOLO at the end of your statement.
Boooring life.. the same as in Finland etc.
Diversity FTW!
So you want to live in a country with shitty unsafe roads?
I don't know what he is complaining about. the road is completely fine. It's so smooth!!
We just implemented your Swindon Roundabout. Everywhere on our roads!
Looks like NDTV learnt filming and reporting style from BBC!
this is so awesome I have tears in my eyes
mann I miss India
thank you Top Gear, you listened to my request and payed a visit to India!!!!!
I can never thank you enough
Whoah, this is completely on whole another level above the 'Lintas Sumatera' (Sumatera's lane) in Indonesia
the roads have significantly improved since this episode