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comment by WanderingEng
WanderingEng  ·  2346 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America is now an outlier on driving deaths

    everyone behaved like they owned rear view mirrors and didn't want to unnecessarily impede other traffic.

This is what I see, or rather don't see, in America. I started to type out a reply to rd95 that I don't see soccer moms demanding use of the express lane with 50 items, I see people in self checkouts who have no idea how to use them taking way too long. The problem seems (to me) not people who say "screw your inconvenience" but rather people who simply have no idea that changing their behavior slightly would have no impact on them but benefit others. Being injured, fatally or otherwise, when it could have been minimized or avoided by a seatbelt has a large impact on others, and I think too many people don't realize that.