China’s rich too fast, too furious

I am not surprised that people with enough money can buy their license. This country is too corrupted.

Most important thing i note here is that the rich no matter what their nationality feel that their 'cash' will somehow make it better and stomp on things others value

Ah, so sorry.

I cash car.

Well the U.S. has about 300 million people and has about 40,000 automobile deaths and China has a billion more than us and has only twice our rate.

Per capita, they're definitely not as shitty as American drivers are. Statistically speaking anyway, I guess we'd also have to know how many cars per person there are in China.

Sounds like nature's standard gene pool correction. When a culture increases in population or technology too quickly without an adjustment period, say good-bye to the headstrong & hello to the new smart people. And such bad timing, when the world is encouraging more bike riding, instead of cars.

20% of world total?

well considering the fact that there are 1.3 billion people in china and about 6 billion people in the world, 20% sounds pretty much spot on.

My boss is korean, and super rich.

This phenomenon is so true that it's sickening.

The best fix is to adjust fines to a percentage of ones annual income.

The government gets more money, and rich people have to pay the same amount that anyone else does for driving like morons.

One thing that must be taken into account:

Of course they have the highest number. They have the most amount of people.

Reminds me of peoples' driving in Italy. Insane. Seemed like traffic laws didn't exist. It's frightening and kind of fun.

Wait money or influence can't fix the rich, privileged and powerful's mistakes?

And USA is actually proud to be #2 at this statistic.

Think about the Chinese DMV line. They only switched from bicycles to cars a few years ago. How many of these drivers actually completed some form of driving school. Sounds to me like 300,000 of them forgot.

It's only going to get worse

Culturally bound knowledge. Their society has had little time to build up the cultural knowledge of dealing with traffic. --- wait...wasn't this an in depth investigative program on PBS recently?

The widening gap between the privileged very rich and the very poor could prove to be their Achilles heel...
But the Chinese have centuries of experience in subjugating the population.

Of course they have the most driving related fatalities, they're the most populous country in the world.

I tried looking for a recent chart which showed traffic fatalities per capita but the most current I could find was from 2004 - it placed them at 52 behind most European nations, Canada, and the U.S..

http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/statistics/stats-multicountry-pe...

You gotta visit one of those big cities in China. They drive like a freaking ninja. Left lane right lane, wrong lane, going head to head with on coming traffic. I think we Chinese people really believe in our quick reaction and reflexes.

you would think with the stereotype that since they are all bad they would avoid it each somehow, like some crazy frenzy but i guess not

So does this mean that the stereotypes are real?

**insert racial stereotype of oriental driving ability here**

More like Bike and Moto fatalities. They drive like animals.