Yesterday in a parking lot I witnessed a guy backing out with his face buried in his cellphone (still facing forward). So basically he backed up without looking or even glancing at his mirror.
I don't think so. His face was fixated on his cell phone while he idled backwards for a bit. Then he finally looked out the back window and finished backing up, then pulled forward.
I was being sarcastic. You must be truly disciplined to not use your phone while driving. I am not, good thing I do not have a functioning phone 98% of the time.
The suicide rate in the US is 2.5x higher than in Vietnam. Clearly people are a lot more fucked up mentally in the US than in Vietnam.
Also, anecdotally, I was much less depressed in Vietnam than in Canada/US. You don't realize how oppressive day-to-day life is here until you've lived there. Everything in the west requires 'insurance' and 'licenses' and 'regulation' and there's always someone telling you what to do and how to do it.
Driving a car or scooter on the road with other cars is by far the most dangerous thing most people do in their day to day life by several orders of magnitude.