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Why do the lights take longer on your bike than in your car? Do you ride your bike on the sidewalk?
Yes I ride on the sidewalk. I'm not crazy enough to share a 40 mph road with Americans. Since driving is essential to live, requirements on licenses are very low, as to be obtainable with everybody, from students to the elderly. That's why retesting is so unpopular, if you fail it, you can't live until you pass. That's qlso why DUI's and other traffic violations have such lenient sentences. There are people amongst the free population with like 2 dozen DUIs. Due to low standards, drivers are terrible, american highways with 60mph speed limits are 2x more dangerous than the autobahn.
In the 70s it was way fucking worse, an American GI injured, in combat, in Vietnam had a better survival rate than victims of a highway carcrash.