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You say that and yet many places have an order of magnitude less car "accidents" per population than the US currently.

>You say that and yet many places have an order of magnitude less car "accidents" per population than the US currently.

Nice Freudian slip there.

Rich western europe has less car accidents because they, broadly speaking, don't let poor people drive and work harder to cultivate a law abiding populace.

They also have way less roads, America has 4.1 million miles of roads and the avg European country has something like 80,000.

American's have to drive and they have to drive further.

Absolute numbers don't mean anything at all. Compare distance driven per person to arrive at something meaningful.

I don't understand, what are you calling a Freudian slip here? I put accident in quotes because it's generally understood nowadays that the term isn't quite the correct one.

If a collision occurs because of bad road/intersection design then it wasn't all that accidental after all - it was a statistical inevitability.

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