In Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, it is legal to run red lights and stop signs after 10PM.........this is for reasons of personal safety, if you feel you are about to be mugged while stopped in your vehicle.

Also, 5 lanes of traffic will always fit into a road with 3.........horns are used for all sorts of signalling between drivers, whereas signal lights are rarely, if ever, used.

During one of their famous 30 minute tropical thundershowers, where the rain accumulation can get to be 2-3 feet deep in places in a short time, you must never stop your car if you are transitting thru the water......not only will your car get flooded, but you will block traffic and the 100 cars behind you trying to do the same thing.

The only time you will ever realize that you got a traffic ticket is when it arrives in the mail.......they have cameras everywhere and police on almost every major street corner who write tickets in a small notepad for later delivery. They never even stop you.....you just get the fine later on.

It is perfectly acceptable, and I have done this on several occasions, to pass a police car at high speed, change lanes without signalling in front of said car, and brake late for a corner without signalling.

You will rarely, if ever, see any traffic accidents.......in over 19 trips to Rio and countless weeks spent living there and driving there, I have only seen one.

Is it any wonder they have more famous racing drivers than anyone else ?