I spent 9 years in Beijing and saw some crazy stuff. Like a woman pulled over on the side of fourth ring by the police (weird in itself) then she gets back into her car and rams the police car in front of her by accident. Backing up in the expressway because you missed your exit is common, I saw a cyclist killed by a taxi on dongzhimen wai who was racing a green light about to turn red (the bicycle was crossing against a red). Oh, and the badly modded small car whose wheels popped off all at once while speeding on third ring. The most common traffic, though was slow without any yielding for pedestrians (the cars would just try to avoid you instead). Oh, and that’s 2016, it was already much better than my first visit in 1999 where buses hit the roads at night without their headlights turned on for some reason.

But ya, none of the drivers were armed, so we had that at least :)