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Originally Posted by strych9
Americans exhibit zero lane discipline. We need tough laws like Germany has regarding motorist laws. It costs like $1200US to even GET a license there, and they have cameras everywhere. If you idle in the wrong lane, fail to signal, etc, you get a HUGE fine. As it should be.
Fat, lazy, clueless American drivers. It's maddening. And I'm an American.
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I am not one of the politically correct America bashers, the ones who are always trying to prove how open- minded and progressive they are with a hang- dog confession about some failure of 'Murica. However, your statement about the German vs. American drivers is spot on. I LOVED the German drivers... driving there is utterly blissful, mostly because they grasp the concept of left to pass, right to drive. It was an utter embarrassment to see on the Autobahn, that a HUGE percentage of the traffic problems--- ie, some pig in the left lane, holding up traffic, and not getting the hell to the right--- had AMERICAN plates. Made me want to hide my colors. The Germans don't do that... but, in spite of the fact that well under 1% of the vehicles on the Autobahn were American- plated, easily 50% of the problems were caused by American- plated cars. Wouldn't surprise me all that much to learn that the OTHER 50% of crappy drivers with Euro- plated cars were still from this side of the pond. I love my country... but the piss- poor drivers we've got sure look stupid on the Autobahn.