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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by eru on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @08:42AM (#787044)
In Germany manual transmissions are the norm. I heard people drive more aggressively than in the US. Might be a cultural thing, though.
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Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic by netsp on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @08:10PM (#788364)
It's not a straight conversion to aggression. Germans, I believe, drive fast. Maybe aggressively too. But, if you put them in an auto, they also pick up the behaviour of building speed fast for 1-2 seconds then braking hard. It happens a lot in dense, halting traffic. It's not the only way of being aggressive, but it's another way

People don't do that in a manual because it's not fun.

*In Italy people drive mostly manuals. They also drive like suicidal grandmas in fast forward.

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