Riding a counterfeit

When we unanimously begin to scold road workers for the poor quality of asphalt, they are always justified by a single argument - that in our climate the temperature passes through 0 too often. In fact, the transition through 0 is also typical for Europe, where they fear it more than ours.

It’s just that this regular cataclysm doesn’t affect the quality of their asphalt in any way. But it affects the behavior of drivers. For Europeans, passing through 0 means unusually low tire grip and poses an increased danger because few are prepared for winter driving. European drivers have neither the skill nor understanding of the peculiarities of such driving. That is why in many European cars the on-board computer begins to scare drivers with a warning about possible ice already at 3 degrees above zero. And it doesn’t lag behind the driver until it drives him into hysterics or the temperature drops to unmistakably winter temperatures. The French went even further and developed heat-sensitive road markings. It changes color from white to red when the temperature of the road surface drops to 1 degree C. If they knew that, in addition to possible ice, at this temperature the Russians’ asphalt also falls apart, they would be very surprised.

Technical examination of the causes of road accidents is rarely carried out and almost never gives an accurate answer, limiting itself to stating facts. But even with such careless results, we have accumulated statistics according to which 5% of accidents occur because counterfeit parts are installed on a car. At the same time, official data is mistaken that they mainly counterfeit spare parts for VAZs, GAZs and UAZs. This state of affairs is typical for the European part of the country, and beyond the Urals, where China operates, spare parts for all cars are counterfeited, including spare parts for BMWs and right-handed Japanese cars.

In January 1930, the first traffic light in the USSR was installed at the corner of Nevsky and Liteiny in Leningrad. True, at that time both avenues were called differently, so it is historically more correct that the traffic light was installed at the intersection of 25 October and Volodarsky avenues. In Moscow, the first traffic light was installed at the end of the same year at the corner of Petrovka and Kuznetsky, so that the capital would not lag behind the city of three revolutions. And the world's first traffic light appeared 62 years earlier in London.