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There are lots of youtube videos from dashcams on Russian cars showing all sorts of idiotic driving leading to "accidents".
The commentary at the bottom of these videos is vitriolic, stereotyping drivel about how horrible Russian drivers are.
What we have here is known as a sampling bias in statistics. Use of dashcams in Russia is far more widespread than
basically anywhere else. So you get to see what really happens on the roads during "accidents". Inferring that this
is uniquely Russian is simply retarded.
1) I see no such focus on Indian, Chinese and most of humanity. In fact, it seems typical to mix in Chinese and South-East
Asian accidents with Russian ones and the retards watching these videos seem not to notice.
2) I have personally seen exactly the same idiocy you see in Russian dashcam videos on Canadian roads. One example is
a moron who ran a red and smashed into a left turning car when he had loads of visual clues aside from the red light that
he was supposed to stop. This was a multilane road and several other cars were already stopped. Another moron
rear-ended the car behind me when we were all gradually stopping at a red light.
3) A lot of the Russian car "accidents" are due to dangerous passing. This behaviour one could say is characteristic of
Russia (but not only Russia) since the road infrastructure is grossly underdeveloped. Russia right now is in a frenzy of
road expansion that should have been done years ago. The common BS line from the Soviet authorities was that
road development facilitates invasion. As a result of the explosion of car ownership after 1990, people are driven
up the wall sitting in traffic jams. One can see how trying to escape this soul destroying time waste would be more common
than in Canada and the USA.
3a) In Canadian traffic jam situations I have seen a similar tendency for some drivers to recklessly queue jump by driving
on the shoulder and onto merging ramps. I would not exclude that there are "Russian style" accidents from this but
we don't have the dashcam record.
The commentary at the bottom of these videos is vitriolic, stereotyping drivel about how horrible Russian drivers are.
What we have here is known as a sampling bias in statistics. Use of dashcams in Russia is far more widespread than
basically anywhere else. So you get to see what really happens on the roads during "accidents". Inferring that this
is uniquely Russian is simply retarded.
1) I see no such focus on Indian, Chinese and most of humanity. In fact, it seems typical to mix in Chinese and South-East
Asian accidents with Russian ones and the retards watching these videos seem not to notice.
2) I have personally seen exactly the same idiocy you see in Russian dashcam videos on Canadian roads. One example is
a moron who ran a red and smashed into a left turning car when he had loads of visual clues aside from the red light that
he was supposed to stop. This was a multilane road and several other cars were already stopped. Another moron
rear-ended the car behind me when we were all gradually stopping at a red light.
3) A lot of the Russian car "accidents" are due to dangerous passing. This behaviour one could say is characteristic of
Russia (but not only Russia) since the road infrastructure is grossly underdeveloped. Russia right now is in a frenzy of
road expansion that should have been done years ago. The common BS line from the Soviet authorities was that
road development facilitates invasion. As a result of the explosion of car ownership after 1990, people are driven
up the wall sitting in traffic jams. One can see how trying to escape this soul destroying time waste would be more common
than in Canada and the USA.
3a) In Canadian traffic jam situations I have seen a similar tendency for some drivers to recklessly queue jump by driving
on the shoulder and onto merging ramps. I would not exclude that there are "Russian style" accidents from this but
we don't have the dashcam record.
