Since you mention Hong Kong, I recall hearing that in order to own a car in Tokyo, you have to prove that you have a place to park it.
Yeah, there are some crazy laws out there. I’ve watched youtube videos that appear to be in China where people run in front of cars trying to be hit. Often they literally run up to the car - that stops before hitting them - and ram their head into the grill or even the windshield, breaking it. Then when they see the driver has a dash cam that recorded the whole thing, they shirk off.
The reason is that if you injure someone with your car, you are basically responsible for them for life.
An interesting outgrowth of this is that if people really DO injure a pedestrian, they may back over them to try to kill them. Yep. It’s a thing there. You don’t have to support a person any more if they’re dead.
It’s that ol’ unintended consequences thing.
Similar: People in China get a significant reward if they catch you on dash cam breaking traffic laws. So people will block your car any way they can until you do something illegal to get around them. Then they turn you in, using the dash cam footage as proof. I believe the fines are in the thousands of dollars, but I could be mistaken.
One leaves the US at their peril in the world in which we live today. We are all targets of both bad people and crazy governments.