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Source of the chart - Plane vs. car safety: America has the world's safest air travel but is so bad at car safety - Vox

Three tweet thread...

A key reason is Americans love BIG HEAVY vehicles. "The average weight of a new vehicle sold in the United States last year was a whopping 4,329 pounds." You get hit by one of these monsters as a pedestrian, cyclist, you die.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The limits are pretty similar

As a Canadian living in America, I definitely feel like Americans are just way more aggressive and individualist in general which carries over to their driving

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's lots of things I seen on reddit that I'm like "oh what weird distinctly reddit pathology", then I'll talk to my friends who moved to the States and be like "oh so americans are really like that".