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goobster  ·  2561 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America is now an outlier on driving deaths

Very true. Having just driven an Audi A4 for two weeks straight around the British Isles, I got to deeply immerse myself in another country's driving culture for a while.

The brits don't bother with speed limit signs and speed traps and cops hiding with radar guns. People drive according to the conditions, and - if they don't - they crash. THEN the police show up, call you a tit for driving like an ass, and scrape your body off the pavement.

One-lane country roads, to B roads, A roads, and M routes, everyone behaved like they owned rear view mirrors and didn't want to unnecessarily impede other traffic.

Except in London, and it's surrounding area within the M1. Everyone driving there drove like a typical American road-hog dick.

It's been interesting to come back to America and see the entitled shittiness we impose on our fellow citizens just because we are sitting behind a steering wheel...