Should I Rent A Car While In India?

[djordjem87]

I heard stories about this and already seen this video once. I cannot believe that this problem could not be solved. You have to be a complete idiot not to be able to have this solved. Anyway I have or even had a friend from India who went back home for a weekend and was hit while on a bike. A truck hit him. That can happen okay, it is not that strange but some guys from India as well who didn't go home that same weekend, they were not very surprised. They were like, "It had to happen once." I was blown away.

 

[pwarbi]

Driving and renting a car in a foreign country is sometimes tricky, and especially if you're going to a major city.

While we can read up on the rules and traffic laws all we like, sometimes the locals will have their own version that's not that easy to follow!

 

[OursIsTheFury]

To be honest, you won't see that much if you rent a car and just travel from one place to the next. The best parts are the ones you just accidentally stumble into, and those are the most memorable ones. There's also the added baggage of you taking responsibility for the car, which would need to be looked out for in case it gets damaged, or worse, stolen. At the end of the day, renting a car is just too much stress and you will barely get to know the local area because you are too busy waiting in the car during the long hours of traffic jams. I hope this helps!

 

[Elizabetonth]

Who wants to drive in India?

Have a look at this intersection and see if you still want to :

Whaaaat?! I'm so glad I didn't watch that video before I went to India for the first time. Why wasn't anyone looking before they turned or pulled out or crossed the street?! The number of bus and rickshaw drivers who turned into oncoming traffic without looking would actually have made me more likely to want to drive *myself*, rather than putting myself into the hands of someone who might do that. Luckily, I still maintain that I've taken lots of buses, rickshaws, etc. and that I never had something like that happen. Still. A lot of those accidents were astonishing. And ridiculous.