Explaining risk, mandating safety

Last month, I travelled to India for the first time, for the bC India show in Mumbai. Until then, I had thought myself a fairly seasoned traveller: in my time with Cranes Today, I've been out travelling maybe ten times a year, to places as diverse as Shanghai and San Diego. But India, in very many ways, good and bad, was further from my home than anywhere I've been. I saw the bad most clearly from a cab. Mumbai's roads are, simply put, horrifying in their disregard for safety. Lane discipline is ignored completely, as pedestrians, cars, trucks and scooters weave six-wide through three lane highways. Seatbelts are nowhere to be found. Drivers apparently rely on placing the sound of a thousand horns to locate other vehicles.