[aianus]

In Vietnam they drive their scooters side by side with their friends and carry on a full conversation while driving and looking straight sideways XD

Honestly, it works fine. Westerners are way too concerned with safety.

[dawson]

I have an office in VN and would disagree it's working fine...

> the majority of those injured and killed in VietNam are vulnerable road users

> road traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for those aged 15 to 29 years.

(PDF) http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_traffic/c...

[aianus]

Edit: deleted comment because it was inaccurate. Apparently accidents still rank higher than suicide in the US, of which most are probably vehicular.

[irishcoffee]

Source? Is this what the dead 17 year-olds tell you?

[aianus]

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.

[muzmath]

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.