Gonna guess South Africa is close to cracking 50 on this…
Okay apparently we’re only at 22.4, it’s all good folks!
But normalized by million of cars it spikes a lot, like, the percentage of cars crashing of total cars is higher than in the US
1318 per million cars yeah I hate driving here
Thought this meant that people were deliberately attempting to run over americans in other countries.
If only
Yeah, but it’s not “affluent” so Vox doesn’t care
The data is from OECD
It makes sense to control for socio-economic development so that you can rule out other variables that would make the comparison less meaningful.
While ignoring other data points like miles driven, time spent in cars, etc?
I mean, as almost always, single-metric comparisons are pretty much meaningless.
Consider this: on a good day I can make it to work in 35 minutes, but I always consider it a 1 hour drive (especially in winter), because it can frequently take that long (50 minutes really, but I consider it killing an hour of my time). And I live in a large city - my job is 15 miles away.
Other than China, I can’t really think of a country who has the space, drivers, and cars in a way comparable to the US. Australia has the space, but few people (by percentage of drivers) really drive the vastness.
Consider this - in a western US state, it could take 3-5 hours to leave the state, at 70mph. This is with no stops. Kansas is an 8 hour drive, Texas is 2 days, realistically.
Dallas to Austin is a couple hours (3 iirc), a good 4 or more to San Antonio. New York to Florida - 20 hours.
Eh, it’s a valid division for analysis cuz in general income per capita seems like a strong explaining factor
Chile best country of Chile drives away recklessly
Imagine driving recklessly in a country that’s 99% cliffs.
Wtf is happening in Argentina
#JustThirdWorldStuff
The rest of the region aint doing much better. Chile seems to be the better one, let me get you a table I posted here in anothwr comment
Shocking that Canada is somehow significantly less car brain that the US.
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More roundabouts.
More respectful driving culture tbh
California drivers are asleep at the wheel, Massachusetts drivers hate each other, Texas drivers hate everyone… By contrast, British Columbia drivers are at least somewhat sane and respectful.
USA! USA! USA!