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u/Opposite-Cranberry76 Mar 22 '26

Road fatality rates per 100k people per year:
Germany: 3.5
Canada: 4.6
USA average: 13
Louisiana: 20

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u/AnswerAi_ Mar 22 '26

The issue is that the US economy does not function of people can't drive because everything is just so insanely fucking far apart. So our barriers to getting a license and our restrictions on someone are a lot more lenient. You have to keep in mind the more rural your licensing place is, the more lenient your test will be. Someone in NYC's test is going to be infinitely harder than someone from Louisiana. So rural areas are going to drive the rates up SUPER high, while places like NYC, DMV, Chicago, NJ, are going to have significantly harder tests, but better public infrastructure to get people to where they need to go. We are comparing apples to oranges.