This where the skull-busting Nautilus Stebel, Wolo Bad Boy or Aerostich Ear Cannon horn (or shanzhai equivalent) can be a lifesaver. Your own ears might be ringing for a few minutes, but it's better than the alternative.

Apart from that, remember your rider training and do your best to read the situation many vehicles ahead of you. If a car pulls over to the right, ask yourself -- what might be the reason? Is there anything of interest that would cause them to stop? A vendor? Stopping to piss? Puke? Sometimes you can tell. But the odds are pretty good that this behavior indicates a U-turn. Watch for it. If you plan to pass, how far to the left can you go without increasing your personal risk?

Sucks that we have to be thinking this way, but it's not just China. Biggest hazard on a US freeway is the SUV with the coffee-drinking, lipstick-applying, cellphone-chatting driver suddenly changing multiple lanes without checking.

We must be hyper-alert at all times, unlike 99% of the drivers around us.