Martin,
You are very right, the most common professional way to compare is accidents per vehicles and/or distance driven. For those countries that we have been talking about, it does not make a very large difference. It would be very skewed if we started to include countries like India or China, who would have very low death per population. I think that Kim touched very valid points, education, experience and attitudes. It is also what the people who works with the issues are saying. The European countries have 18 years old as limit for car driving licence, 16 years for light motor bike and 15 years for moped. The training, tests and exams are more extensive. Skidding training are mandatory and certificate is necessary for drivers licence. Germany have much better statistics than US, that is a fact. I can understand your sister, you must be very disciplined to drive on German autobahn. Having higher normal speeds, with many who drives at 100-130 miles per hour is scary, but they are more predictable and follow the rules. I am more afraid on US highways, since the US drivers are less predictable and less respect for rules. US is among the leaders on accidents and fatalities what ever way you look at the numbers. US is also leader on murder rates, largely because of the gun laws. This is part of the constitutional rights, freedom, corporate interests and the right to do business. If you change it, you will end up with a suppressed society, like all other countries in the world. I do not understand why the terrorists want to kill a few people, when the Americans are so good in doing it themselves. Look only at president Bush and the watering down of taken pollution decisions, it will prematurely kill more people than many of the bad guys in other countries have done. This is a well researched fact. With all the people that are prepared to twist and hide realities, after all it is all a conspiracy to "bash the Americans", it is hard to defend common sense. Intelligence and common sense is the arch enemies of corporate America and the "American way of life". I am not on a crusade for saving American lives, only to beg them to save some energy resources for developing the rest of the world. Hakan At 01:50 AM 4/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: >I hear about massive accidents on the German autobahn all the time. I >remember my sister telling me how she was so scared because everyone >drove extremely fast. >You can't just compare x deaths out of n people. Like any statistic it >depends on everything else remotely related to it. > >Hakan Falk wrote: > > > > >Germany have less than Australia and have more intersecting > >highways, higher density and in many highways no speed limit. > > > >Sweden and Switzerland have around 1 death per 85,000 or nearly > >1/9 of US. > > > >Hakan > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- >--- >Martin Klingensmith >http://nnytech.net/ >http://infoarchive.net/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/cjB9SD/od7FAA/AG3JAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
