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The DLA Research team takes a look at driving in Poland where it is discovers that “ass-like” driving is not always the same as “driving like ass!”
A Czarny Punkt, or Black Spot, marks a particularly deadly traffic location in Poland and includes the number of fatalties (zabitych) and injuries (rannych)
Last week, inspired by Peter Hessler’s intriguing article in the November 26 The New Yorker (“Wheels of Fortune”) the DLA research staff was hopeful that examination of driving instruction and licensing procedures in other countries might provide a window into Boston driving behavior. The first entry, “Learning to Drive #1: China vs. Massachusetts” relied on Hessler’s first-hand experiences to conclude that, despite the naïve charm and frighteningly arbitrary nature of Chinese driving and driving instruction, new drivers in China were being taught to drive like ass, unlike Boston where current research points to an innate behavioral component of ass-like driving.
Nonplussed, DLA researchers pressed on. I have spent a great deal of time in Poland both driving and being driven and it is my studied impression that Poland is a nation of ass-like drivers.
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