Because the designers and marketers were given priority over the safety engineers.

Lol, come here and use our public transport options before you speak. This entire thread is led by those laying wide-reaching proclamations while being unable to consider any situation other than their own.

Great, where you live.

As someone with ADHD, it is relaxing. And it is super enjoyable. I like thinking about how the weight of my car shifts going around corners. I like trying to be as smooth as possible shifting gears. There is a lot of information and the focus on it all quiets the noise normally in my head.

Leave early enough you aren't stressed about being late.

Just let the asshole aggressive driver in.

Leave more than enough space that you have time to react.

Don't treat it as a competition and it's a pleasurable experience.

So the answer would be to advocate for better public transport

No, not the answer. I don’t live in New York you clown.

Okay, then advocating for better urban planning and less urban sprawl. Unless you live in a rural area, you shouldn’t be required to go into debt to pay for a multi ton machine to be able to buy food. It’s odd that only in the last hundred years humans have stopped being able to function day to day without vehicles.

Or on your motorcycle in 15.

Everyone with the usual compliment of legs should be forced to start on a motorcycle or moped. After 2 years of that we let you graduate to being in a box. Riding a motorcycle will force you to learn how to remain attentive and focused 100% on operating your machine, and when you're finally afforded the luxury of a roof and heat, not having to get rained and snowed on half the year, you'll really appreciate what you've got instead of treating it like the world owes you a car.

In some places in the world you can give it a shot and see, but we don't have rear fog lights in the US. I've never seen one on any car designed for this market, and my Crosstrek just to name an example has a conspicuous filler panel over the hole where the rear fog light goes on the same model sold in other markets.

As to why, I have no idea. But we also mandate that front fog lights can't be configured so they can be activated without the main headlights on at the same time, which kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me. So maybe asking DOT regulations to make sense is a tall order.

You all talk a big game, but I’ve been to about 20 countries so far in my life. Distributed all over the world. They ALL have traffic led by cars. I guess I haven’t been to Mumbai..

Your assumptions are wrong, and you live in fantasy. Get over it.

And anyone that drives cars ever, apparently.

Can you edit that to 'braking', and I'll delete this comment, please? It's breaking my brain.

Don't even get me started on the wild and wonderful design 'features' on modern cars. Fucking hell, they want you to do anything but drive the thing and pay attention to the road.

It's too late, he already broke his car while going around the corner.

And the exact reason that you don't need to buy a truck to transport goods once in a blue moon

That is a weird question.

How do you calculate odds of dying by suicide anyway, wouldn't they be personal?

When am I ever looking at the side and needing to see the other side's turn signal? The best I can think of is (using right side driving) a car turning right into my lane of travel as I'm going straight, but I'll be a bit offset to the left and should be able to see the right headlight. If I can't, that means the car is angled to the right, making it obvious that they're turning.

Haha, funny enough, some BMWs have a feature where the speedometer reads 5 MPH higher than actual vehicle speed. Probably to try cutting down on speeding

It's possible. Red really is only supposed to be on the back to indicate the rear of the vehicle.

It's why on stretches of road where passing in oncoming lanes is legal, they tell you to turn on your headlights (daytime headlights section.) Its so that there is a distinguishing feature between the front and rear of the car.