Re:How Japan Won Its ‘Traffic War’
by porknubbins on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:01PM
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Interesting that Japan used to be much worse. Having driven regularly in Japan and the US one gets the sense that Japanese drivers are just much more attentive to following rules, possibly because the consequences for causing an accident are much more severe. It feels like 1 in 100 drivers flargrantly ignore the rules where in my city its more like 1 in 20.
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It's not just that though, in Australia we have almost absurdly strict road rules (you can be fined $400+ for being a few km/h over the limit or even for your numberplate being inadequately visible etc.) yet Japanese drivers are noticeably more courteous and less prone to "hoon" behaviour than those here. They are stricter about license renewals though which must help.