A member of Australia's ruling Liberal Party solemnly presented a long-standing proposal at Canberra's Capitol.
After the submission, the congressman, Sarah Henderson, returned to her seat with a dignified look, knowing that she had just completed an initiative that offended the countless car rental companies in Australia and a large number of Chinese.
Australia's largest rental car company, Apollo Tourism, has hosted its biggest celebration party since it was built.
The company's head, Luke Trouchet, said excitedly at the meeting that their net profit had risen inconceivably 2.66 times over the past three years, according to the company's year-end results. That growth, in Australia, where RV cars are so popular, is harder than winning the lottery.
But it wasn't just AT that won the lottery. In 2017, Australia's biggest car rental companies almost all achieved significant growth. All this is due to the constant influx of Chinese tourists into Australia.
Chinese tourists are keen to drive themselves in Australia
The number of Chinese tourists renting cars and camping equipment in Australia increased 112 percent in the first three quarters of 2017, according to (Tourism Research Australia), an Australian tourism study.
That figure has grown for five consecutive years, and the Center for Tourism Research estimates that by 2020, more than two hundred thousand Chinese tourists will drive themselves to Australia.
All of this can be attributed to two things: Australia's stunning scenery, and the incredibly loose way to rent a car: you can rent a car anywhere in Australia with the original and translation of a Chinese driver's license and a credit card, and you can rent a car from anywhere in Australia without having to take an exam, as long as you have the original and translation of the Chinese driver's license and translation, and with your credit card. Go straight on the road.
Thanks to a surge in Chinese tourists, Australian car rental companies, which have been struggling to make money in previous years, are in their second spring. Even Luke Trouchet, the head of Apollo Tourism, said frankly: three years ago, Asian guests were rare there.
But now, Chinese tourists have become frequent visitors to our company, their base is very small, but the growth is very rapid. "
However, just as Australia's major car rental companies began to look ahead to the new year, Chinese tourists brought them new growth when a bad news came out: a proposal to strictly control Chinese tourists on the road would be ready to be approved by the Australian Federal government. Because there are so many people who support the proposal.
Major car rental companies have said: "without Chinese tourists, the car rental industry across Australia will suffer a fatal blow, thousands of people will lose their jobs, this proposal can not be passed!"
In good words, however, this week, the proposal was formally submitted, requiring strict restrictions on Chinese tourists on their way to Australia and stricter scrutiny of them, as they are like regular bomb on the way to the road:
If the proposal is passed, Chinese drivers must if they want to go on the road
Pass the driving knowledge test
Force security video viewing.
Investigation of its overseas traffic records, if there are violations, rental companies must seriously consider.
This is responsible not only for the passengers themselves, but also for the lives of others.
Sarah said international tests for drivers abroad, such as New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom, had long been implemented, and she did not understand why Australia did not.
Although Sarah explains that the proposal applies to all overseas drivers, it is not specific to a particular country. However, the proposal has repeatedly mentioned China, many compatriots feel unhappy: is this Sarah against the Chinese people, deliberately targeted at us, since we are not allowed to drive, we do not go to Australia to send money!
As the saying goes, a slap does not clap, because just in Australia just past Christmas, tourists from other countries did not have an accident, but there are just two drivers from China accident.
Four days, two accidents., traffic police was helpless.
On December 26, Boxing Day, at the crossroads of Birregurra, southwest of Melbourne: a white Toyota and a green Ford suddenly had a very serious collision.
The collision was so intense that the driver of the white Toyota died.
The perpetrator was a 27-year-old male from China.
Boxing Day, was supposed to be the happiest day of the year in Australia because of the death that brought all the police, the families of the deceased and the families of the perpetrators to the bottom of the day.
Speaking of the accident, Birregurra Fire Department speaker Gavin Brien said: "I've been in this position for 18 years and I've seen a lot of accidents, but it's the first time I've seen things like this."
"he drove from Colac-Lorne Rd, saw the STOP sign, and stopped."
Just a few days before the accident, a woman tourist from China went on a drive trip to the west of Geelong.
At about 10:30 that day, the car, with a five-year-old boy and his mother, drove to a crossroads and was suddenly hit by another Ford F250 at an hour of 100km.
At the time, Carola, who had been driven by Chinese female tourists, was knocked down by the whole car window. The sudden and violent crash left all the passengers in Corolla injured. The woman driver of especially's car was already on the verge of death.
This tragic car accident, resulting in a total of 5 people injured, of whom 4 were sent to hospital stable after treatment, 1 person in critical condition.
The region's senior police chief, Peter Radford, said the Ford driver had been driving normally and had no idea that the Corolla driver had failed to comply with the Australian Give way rules.
In the absence of parking, the car suddenly drove the wrong lane, causing the Ford driver to dodge in a bad time, and eventually led to a tragedy.
According to the results of the Australian police investigation, it can be said that these were two tragedies that could have been avoided.
Every year, there are tens of millions of foreign tourists driving themselves in Australia, but in recent years only Chinese tourists have experienced such serious accidents in recent years.
You say once in a while, is a personal reason, but in this way, time and time again, even if Australia wants to earn your money, but also to find a way to protect the safety of people ah!
Frequent Traffic violations in Australia by "Old drivers" in China
Path out of the main road do not shy away, straight out of frequent changes in order to shoot the scene of random parking the most serious: retrograde!
These are all the things we've been driving in Australia for so many years and seeing our compatriots do it with our own eyes.
In addition, I would like to tell you that it will be more and more difficult for a Chinese driver's license to drive in Australia in the future. This is the general trend.
And Sarah Henderson is by no means the first member of Parliament to propose strict control of Chinese drivers. By the end of 2017, South Australia's government had received a long report from the Senate Committee asking the government to immediately begin to consider:
If a foreign driver wants to drive in South Australia, he must pass the Australian driving test first!
You see, that's what Australians are doing right now:
Even if it offends more than 1 billion people, even if it offends Australia's car rental companies, it can be said that the Chinese driver's license should be strictly controlled, which can be said to be intolerable.
Chinese people who don't know "right of the way" are not welcome to go anywhere.
It's not just Australians who can't bear Chinese tourists.
Australia's neighbor, New Zealand, even because of frequent accidents among Chinese tourists, asked government petition "to hope that the country will have more legislation and that those who want to drive in New Zealand if they hold a New Zealand visa for more than three months must pass the New Zealand full driver's license."
The petition book, which has the support of thousands of netizens, will also be submitted to New Zealand Parliament.
Compatriots in the United States and Canada have also said that when locals meet unruly Asian drivers, they will always throw the pot on the head of the Chinese in the first place, believing it must be a Chinese driver.
Chinese friends from far away in the UK also know that when they test their driver's license, the Chinese will always get extra "attention", not to say that the test will deliberately hang you up, but to be extremely strict with your standards.
It has become an international consensus that the Chinese do not know the rules and do not obey the rules of driving. Some popular self-driving attractions in foreign countries have even made an exception by marking "deceleration" in Chinese!
According to theory, overseas driving licenses are supported by the law in many countries, but what exactly is wrong with the Chinese driving, which makes the world so unwelcome that the people of China are opposed to the boycott?
Many Chinese drivers feel that they have been driving in China for so many years, so long as they pay more attention to it, they will not have problems.
However, I can tell you responsibly that the longer you drive in China, the more dangerous you will be driving abroad and the less driving you will be able to drive! On the other hand, it's the same. The longer you drive overseas, the longer you can't get on the road!
How to say that ? In the final analysis, the most important difference between driving in China and abroad is:
Chinese drivers really have no idea of "right of the way"!
Right of way, is a relative obligation and authority relationship. It is the highest concept of maintaining smooth traffic and maintaining traffic safety. All passers-by must respect each other's right of way while abiding by traffic regulations in order to achieve the purpose of smooth traffic and safety.
Take Australia as an example. To put it simply, the right of way is to drive in Australia, who has the priority of passing through the authority!
When a person has a right of way in Australia, his or her foot won't hit the brake at all, it must be passing at a high speed (you have no right to the road to death)!
And driving in China: from driving school, they will teach you to see the six directions, listen to all sides are ready to stay away from the driver. (prevent people from changing course, preventing some people from running red lights, preventing retrograde vehicles, preventing people from backing up in the car at all times.) In short, it is a word of tiredness.
In Australia, there's no civil defense!
Now understand why Chinese drivers in Australia, always because of the problem of Give way,Stop sign?
Because in Australia, they don't think anyone will violate the traffic regulations, so when they have the right to drive, they won't talk to you at all.
Now, you'll find Australian police saying in two incidents, "[the driver] came from Colac-Lorne Rd and saw that the STOP sign failed to stop in front of the (STOP)", "and the Corolla driver did not comply with Australian Give way rules."
What do you mean, Chinese tourists don't know the right of way?
The difference between driving in Australia and in China is that everyone in China is better than who else, but abroad it depends on who obeys the rules.
In Australia, turning straight is the basic rule, everyone is used to it, no driver will take this time, so direct drivers usually do not slow down through.
As the Australian police say, anyone's death is a tragedy, heartbreaking. However, the car owner who violates the basic principles is fully responsible, not only can not get compensation, but also to compensate for the repair and medical expenses of the other car.
So many people have to ask, why in Australia, people are so conscious of order? So much respect for the right of the way?
The human mind is slightly fried. When most people follow some sort of order, you also come close to the majority, become part of it, enjoy the convenience it brings, and sometimes feel guilty when it breaks it.
When the majority of society does not abide by order, it feels like an "alternative" to itself.