Originally Posted by
genec
All this says something rather particular about our drivers here in the US. We know they are just as human as drivers in other countries... so what exactly is missing that makes them act in their cycle adverse manner, here.
Personally, I think it is the joke of a licensing scheme that grants anyone with a pulse a license and refuses to remove it until they have proven a pile of irrefutable incompetencies, but that is just my opinion.
Driving is treated as a God given right here, where folks don't even lose it after multiple DUIs or fatal accidents in which they were recklessly at fault, whereas there it is treated as something they will have no problem taking away in a heartbeat and letting you ride a bus.