old theme - What exactly is default?

[Lupo]

Originally Posted by Not another shrubbery

Indeed. NationMaster's recent stats on Motor Vehicles.

So in the U.S. there are 200+ SUVs for every 500 cars.
You really are a selfish nation :)

[EtVous]

Originally Posted by Lupo

(note: I am not assuming that Americans cannot drive, nor that Italians are better drivers. I want only to point out that, generally speaking, it will be easier to drive an American car on an American road than an Italian car on an Italian road, so some people who are considered "able to drive" in the U.S. would not be considered so in Italy. I am also speaking *very generally*, I do know that you have manual cars, narrow or uneven roads and traffic jams in the U.S., too; in Italy these things are simply *way* more common)

Lemme laugh! Easier drive?

Icelanders, Swedes, Norwegians and Canadians should be great drivers, we have to drive on snow and ice about half the year.

No matter where you're from, you'll find some great excuse to qualify as the best...

Tourist and new immigrants to the suburbs of Montréal find it pretty rough in winter and spring... It pot-hole season and some of them you can easily damage a rim.

[Figleaf23]

Originally Posted by EtVous

Icelanders, Swedes, Norwegians and Canadians should be great drivers, we have to drive on snow and ice about half the year.

Technique -- Traction Management (Defaults to Driving) can only be improved to equal the TDM for bad traction road conditions.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Lupo

So in the U.S. there are 200+ SUVs for every 500 cars.
You really are a selfish nation :)

Don't be silly, besides there's probably as many Pick-Up trucks on the road as SUVs.

And some of those are actually used for work, though the people who commute using them at 14/20 mpg are still better off than all the Hummer and Cadillac Escalade drivers.
http://www.fordvehicles.com/Trucks/F150/

[EtVous]

Originally Posted by Figleaf23

Technique -- Traction Management (Defaults to Driving) can only be improved to equal the TDM for bad traction road conditions.

I like that one... However, it should not exceed Driving-1; you still have too slow down, the tires get hard and don't adhere as well to asphalt.

[Figleaf23]

Originally Posted by EtVous

I like that one... However, it should not exceed Driving-1; you still have too slow down, the tires get hard and don't adhere as well to asphalt.

Good point, no-one will ever be as good at driving in snow as they are on clear asphalt.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Lupo

You really are a selfish nation :)

I do my part :|
;)

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Figleaf23

Good point, no-one will ever be as good at driving in snow as they are on clear asphalt.

That's like someone will never do a back kick as good as a frontal kick, and never kick as good as punch: falls below the RADAR's granularity.