I see what you mean -- but in our case we generally have this whole set of completely normal (and generally reasonable!) laws -- however the enforcement budget is not high (limited resources!), and compliance is this huge educational problem where a lot of people moved from rural areas to the big city this generation. It feels likely that the USA had a point in it's history like this!

It's getting (a lot) better with time, but this is a common story in the developing world: No enforcement, so few people obey laws. Few people obey laws, so people lose faith in public institutions because of the mess. This leads to low tax compliance, so there's no budget to enforce laws.

I'm an immigrant though, so the compliance expected of me is quite high by comparison and I'm under more scrutiny. Which has worked out to my benefit, because now I know how to effectively use government services!

On a positive note, a lot of people still ride bicycles here! Since most traffic is two-wheeled, it's somewhat more bike friendly than most places I've been in north america. Rush hour sucks though, because you're constantly accelerating + stopping. In moderate traffic, you're going about as fast as everyone else though. Da Nang is an absolutely lovely city to bicycle in.