sweden-traffic order

After traveling several countries, it struck my mind that to know the level of people’s perception; traffic order is the great example to find out.

From lot of countries, you can experience that car dominates human. What I mean is that when pedestrian try to cross the road, one have to be very careful and check both directions to see whether car is coming or not. However in Sweden case, it is the car which has to look out for people. It is automatic and obvious rule in Sweden that car must stop for pedestrian to cross the road first no matter how many cars are waiting behind. Plus, it is rare to hear the sound of horn in Sweden. This could be cause of less population in Sweden compare to other countries. Nevertheless, still it is impressive to feel that pedestrian feel safe contrast to other countries where pedestrian have to be nervous all the time and being shouted by car drivers at little mistakes.

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