Cairo is a car graveyard...

Cairo, Egypt, has a population of 10 million people and probably about the same number of cars or more. People drive new and old cars. There's almost no public parkings, so they park on the streets, wherever they can. New cars without a scratch or a bump are only seen in the shops. As soon as a car leaves the shop, it gets scratched, bumped. It's not a matter of "if", it's a matter of "when".

When a car stops driving, they park it on the street. And forget about it. Every street has those cars. Flat tires, sinking in the dust, plants growing under, next, on them... It's heaven for the lovers of oldtimers for sure!

But before they are sent to the graveyard, they drive it until it falls apart. There's no sign of any governmental yearly technical inspection. Everything is allowed. A typical sign you notice at night. You want to cross a street and vaguely you see a car approaching at high speed. It's dark and car has no lights. Fortunately you are aware that this can happen and you are prudent. You let the car pass, thinking he forgot to put on his lights. But when you see the car from the backside, there's lights! 

This happens all the time... at least 1 out of 20 drives at night without lights. It's scary.

Welcome to Egypt, formerly known as the land of the camels, today the land of the cars.