[diggan]

I felt the same driving in Peru vs driving in Sweden or Spain. While the traffic is a lot more organized in Sweden and Spain, people were a lot less attentive so close-accidents happens a lot more than in Peru, where people communicate via honking and pay attention to the road 100% all the time.

While the traffic was a bit crazier than I'm used to, I actually felt safer on the road in Peru.

[flavius29663]

I felt this too, I wonder if this has a name. NYC is crazy aggressive, but I felt pretty safe, everyone was paying attention. In DC some people want to drive as aggressively as in NYC, but they don't pay attention, or at least most drivers don't. The result is that I felt much safer in NYC than in DC, even though it's much more congested.