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@dualityk@mastodon.sdf.org @scott that's fair, for sure.
But on the other hand, the reversal seems very sudden. I don't think the data would look like that given fleet-turnover rates, but that's just my intuition
@TechConnectify @dualityk @scott Guys, can't you use data from some country where one of those factors is smaller as means of comparison? Like, one where trucks are far less predominant? (Well, I don't think you are going to find somewhere where smartphones are significantly less predominant.) I guess that countries with historically narrower roads should have less trucks as people would avoid them because it would be cumbersome to drive on such roads.
@qgustavor @dualityk@mastodon.sdf.org @scott you could, but I see the US driving-safety culture as uniquely horrific among all nations.
You basically just need a pulse to get a license. The tests are super lax, there's really no mandatory training at all, and in general few people take the responsibility of a car very seriously.
@TechConnectify @dualityk @scott You may say all nations because you don't know Brazil: at least people get a license, here a lot of people drive without one. Like, a lot of people.
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I took a license exam courses and a driving class, and I did not learn very much. Just how to merge safely, how to make a three point turn, and what the road signs mean. I have learned more from my Parents, then from either of my instructors.
How to drive in the rain and snow, what to do should you hydroplane, why good tires matter, etc where all things I learned from my parents.
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Here in Alabama where it rains at least once a week, State Law forbids road tests if there is any precipitation whatsoever. And they don't care to tell you when you schedule the test online at the DMV.
@minecraftchest1 @TechConnectify @dualityk @scott I don't know how to drive on snow 
@qgustavor Be careful, don't accelerate quickly, use double your normal stopping distance, have patience.
If you end up drifting, do not break. Use light acceleration to gain some traction and hold your steering wheel to one side or the other. If you don't have any drifting room (you are sounded by other vehicles, use very small adjustments to correct.
@minecraftchest1 I don't know because it doesn't snow here. The minimum temperature that can get here is 10C/50F, and that's quite rare. Getting above 40C/104F is less rare.
But good to know, just follow the same advice for rain. I wonder if some of those instructions change for cars with ABS. I avoid driving in the rain to be fair.
@qgustavor
Not much. The thing to remember is that ABS doesn't work if you floor the break pedal. So pressing lightly on the break pedal will do more with ABS then gluing it to the floor does.
@TechConnectify @qgustavor @dualityk @scott agreed that the requirements to obtain a US license are far too low. im so glad the nation im from requires us nationals to retake their driving exams here, though this could also be from us driving on the other (correct) side of the road