Comment on You guys have to end it
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 year ago
US: predominantly automatic transmission, low speed limits
Germany: predominantly manual transmission, higher speed limits and no limits on most of the autobahns (motorways)
US road deaths per capita twice of Germany.
Draw your own conclusions.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
crank0271@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What if we’re too American to draw an appropriate conclusion from that?
Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Probably more related to the god-awful infrastructure design in the US, like stroads and an unfathomable tendency to use stop signs for a lot of things they are just not fit for, like to replace speed bumps, chicanes, and roundabouts.
Also the better comparable statistic should be deaths per distance traveled in cars.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Germany has much stricter requirements to get a driver’s license. That leads to better driving skills on average.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Chicanes are the best part about riding a sport bike! I get to drag knees on public roads!
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Public roads are not a racetrack. You never know when there’s going to be a kid chasing a ball or something around the corner.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 year ago
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He’s done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn’t have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He’ll never change. He’ll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn’t keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn’t be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should’ve stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here is the list 6.9 vs 4.2 deaths per 1 billion km. 12.8 vs. 3.35 per 100’000 inhabitants.
But you need both for a fuller puncture, not everyone involved/dieing is in a vehicle.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 year ago
Not to mention the DUI rates in the US are astronomical. Over 1/3 of motor fatalities are alcohol related in the US.
Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I would, but I ran out of crayons
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Quick Google
In 2024 36% of Germans reported using the car daily.
In 2023 95.3% of Americans older than 16 drive on occasions.
83 million Germans, 63% above 16
340 million Americans, 65% above 16
52 million potential drivers in Germany, 17 million actually drive
221 million potential drivers in America, 210 million drive daily
17 million vs 210 million daily drivers
~12x more drivers, only 2x more death
Per capita isn’t really a way to look at it
Besides automatic cars or lack of a manual transmission is not causing accidents.
Chance of death goes up significantly with speed
No one has ever crashed because they couldn’t go over the speed limit
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Not sure why you think this is relevant. Children aren’t allowed to drive in Germany.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well you can start driving in US at 15
Like I said quick Google
Even less Germans driving, proves my point more
Germans only really drive if they are willing and able
Americans are forced to drive
Car deaths in America aren’t happening because they have automatic transmissions and can’t drive as fast as they want.
Just the seer amount of drivers, more cars on roads to crash into, and less willing and able drivers.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 year ago
No, crashes in the US happen because Americans are shit drivers. They are shit drivers because you get a free driving license with box of cereal. Germany on the other hand has one of the strictest driving tests there is. A German with a driving license has had many hours of instruction from a professional instructor.
In addition, American cars are shit. Lots of poorly maintained and unsafe vehicles on the road with very lax regulation. By contrast, German cars have to pass a very comprehensive yearly safety inspection.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Downvoters mad to find out cars are inherently unsafe and need very good infrastructure and to be remotely safe.
Downvoters mad that E~k~= ½mv^2^, and speed, funnily enough, is dangerous.
Downvoters mad that manual transmission isn’t making cars safer.
Car go vroom vroom, but public transport go better
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