Driving in Taiwan
You may hear about the scooters in Taiwan, and 10-years of serving expat customers, it’s the first thing to know about driving here in Taiwan.
Just like many ASEAN countries, scooters are the best way of commuting for the salaried workers. You will experience the “scooter waves” in major cities during rush hours.
It takes days or weeks to get used to it. But no worries, you will. I had young expat customers who never drove in their own countries but finally drove well in Taiwan.
Speed Cameras on the road side
In Taiwan, the police deploys speed cameras on the road sides and median islands at popular speeding roads.
If you notice speed limit signs frequently, please slow down because the signs usually come with speed cameras.
SPECS (average speed measuring)
In city tunnels, suburb, mountain areas where there’s no intersections for a long section, the police uses “SPEC” to enfore the speed limit.
Before the SPECS sections, you will also notice the remider and speed limit signs on the roadside.
Full green light
Only the full green light allows you to go all directions.
Full green light
Green arrow traffic lights allows traffic to proceed the directions of the arrows.
Make right turns on red light
In some countries, drivers are allowed to turn right on red light at no hazard of traffic flow. But in Taiwan, you can only do this when you see the green arrow on the red light.
Make left turns and u-turns on red light
In downtown areas, big intersections will have specific moments to make turns even at green light. When you see green arrows, you can only go the directions accordingly.