livedarklions

You mistranslated that as the majority of drivers are bad. I said you had grossly distorted a survey result. QED.

If you think it's meaningful that almost all drivers think they're good and that most other drivers suck, knock yourself out, but all that reflects is a known psychological effect called "the fundamental attribution error.".

The US is the outlier in motor vehicle casualties and fatalities. That's a real problem that needs to be addressed seriously and systematically. But using stupid data, claiming that throwing more people in jail and quibbling about crash vs. accidents is just plain crummy advocacy.

BTW I don't think drivers in most other countries are generally better than American drivers. The real differences are in the quantity of driving, the size of the vehicles, and basic city design. We've got too many big vehicles being crammed into crowded city streets, and pedestrians and bicyclists bear a lot of the costs of that.