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Fed Gov announced that in 2015, 38,300 were killed in vehicle crashes [an 8% increase over 2014] and 4,400,000 were injured. That's 105 killed and 12,055 injured every day. But a shooting at a mall gets national attention for days.
Why we should remove speed limits. Germany has half the accident rate we do.
...and have much more stringent requirements on getting a license. Which would require having effective public transit for those that can't qualify.
In Germany, a license requires the ability to drive a standard(stick) transmission, ability to change tires, and basic car diagnostics and all kinds of European road signs that average American would not figure out easily.
We have a driving population that is the least educated about cars and least trained.
In Japan, if you don't go to driving school you have no chance of passing the exams.
Why we should remove speed limits. Germany has half the accident rate we do.
...and have much more stringent requirements on getting a license. Which would require having effective public transit for those that can't qualify.
Germany has speed limits, I have no idea where you it does not. Only a very small portion of highways have no speed limits.
I doubt requirements have anything to do with it, unless you think many of those who caused the deaths and injuries had no idea what they were doing was wrong?
Fed Gov announced that in 2015, 38,300 were killed in vehicle crashes [an 8% increase over 2014] and 4,400,000 were injured. That's 105 killed and 12,055 injured every day. But a shooting at a mall gets national attention for days.
The stats are incredible and amazingly enough people want less rules and regulations and higher speed limits.
In Germany, a license requires the ability to drive a standard(stick) transmission, ability to change tires, and basic car diagnostics and all kinds of European road signs that average American would not figure out easily.
We have a driving population that is the least educated about cars and least trained.
In Japan, if you don't go to driving school you have no chance of passing the exams.
There is no requirement to learn a manual, however, if you test on an auto, then you are not allowed to drive a manual. The car tire changing and everything else is just basic classroom stuff. You actually do not go and change a tire. With that, many Germans unless they are into cars, do not know anything about them, they just call a service when a repair is needed.
Our issues are culrural, not knowledge. I would bet most people who caused accidents knew they were doing something wrong. No amount of training will correct that.
In any case, for the number of miles driven, the US number is low.
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