Ruphus -> RE: Parking lot incident (Jan. 15 2012 10:28:23)
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I take traffic conditions as indicator for mentality and culture. Over here for instance, with the worlds highest death toll of 124 000 per year, ways in traffic indicate a culture of lacking foresight, empathy and rationality. From Malaysia for instance I hear of quite the opposite with a traffic of remarkable consideration and anticipation. Vice versa, I am convinced that educational measures in the media that would expound on dispropotion of reckless shove / risk of accident and apparent spare of time, on exponential collision power at rising speed, etc. and their resulting tame of traffic to a degree would yield repercussion on general mentality. That´s at least how it appeared to me in Germany after regular educational TV spots of decades ago. ( A progress unfortunately encreasingly reversed however with the growing number of immigrated traffic participants from eastern / southern hemisphere who import their homelands traffic mentality to Germany. - Maybe, the US might have seen their share as well. For, as I remember from the seventies and eighties, traffic mentality there used to be pretty easy going and considerate.) Where I am, and obviously in many other regions too, preparation and examination for driving license are a joke. It has been beyound me anyway, how a country with such strict traffic rules like Germany has come to accept thelike foreign driving licenses. As usually, it must be bound to some monetary background, only that it remains unclear to me how that would be looking like. Ruphus
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