Driving in Taiwan's chaotic traffic

The streets are busy with people, scooters, and cars going about doing their business. The amount of scooters in Taiwan is immense. There are almost as many scooters here as there are cars. When I first arrived last week, I was surprised at how both scooters and vehicles were able to travel on the same street without more accidents occurring than there are. The scooter is a very common form of transportation. Everyone here knows how to drive a scooter--even kids and little grandmothers. There are so many scooters zooming about the streets. They zig zag around in the traffic to get around other vehicles. They scuttle around like little mice and what amazes me is that the traffic seems to flow without anyone getting run over. I haven't seen any traffic accidents yet. When scooters want to make a left turn at a busy intersection, they don't turn on a left lane; rather, they turn on the far right lane on a yellow or even a red light because it's safer this way (or rather, less dangerous than the alternative). Tetraffic does not yield to scooters turning left. Driving is so chaotic. It really freaked me out riding on a scooter. I thought we were going to get run over a few times but the drivers here seem to treat this chaotic form of driving as normal. This is what I call harmony in the midst of chaos. Driving a car is considered a luxery for most people because parking is hard to find. If all the people in Chang-Hua drove cars, I don't think there would be enough room on the streets to hold all the cars. A place like this needs scooters.