From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 11:24:55 MST
BillK wrote:
> Fri Feb 07, 2003 05:35 pm Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
>>Alfio makes a good point: the traffic fatality rate in Italy is
>>about 12 per 100,000; in the US it's about 15. So "safety" can't
>>be the primary explanation for the absence of micros from the US
>>market. Perceived safety, perhaps.
The figure of merit is not deaths per 100K population, but
rather fatalities per km driven. The U.S. is a big country
and proles need need to drive far into the city in order to
get a high enough paying job afford the payments on that
home far from the city.
Those nations such as Italy and Babylon, that were invented
before there were cars, are set up differently. Ive seen
pictures of them, its truly amazing. There are *homes* right
down *in* the city with all the businesses and stuff. They
needn't drive far. What a concept!
People in Sweden drive more carefully because there is
ice on the road I suppose.
> Greece and Portugal seem to lead at 20 to 21.
I don't know why Portugal, but in Greece, perhaps
part of the problem may be those robes they wear
on the way to the colosseum interfere with braking.
>...in USA 'real men' don't wear seatbelts.
> In Italy every driver has to be the one in front.
In Italy every driver has to be the one in front. In
the USA the driver can sit anywhere. {8^D
spike
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