I remember back in college, I needed a new engine for a broken-down car I was driving. My mechanic sold me a “low mileage” replacement engine from Japan, which was very affordably priced yet had only something like 12,000 miles on it, making me wonder how such a thing was possible. I was living in San Diego, a place where you regularly put 150,000 or more miles on a car during its life, but Japan is very different from the U.S. Although it isn’t exactly a small country, the kinds of driving one usually does there is quite different from the U.S., with city streets instead of speedy freeways, and plenty of stop lights, one-way streets, and of course fumikiri, or train crossings, which everyone is required to stop at. Comparing how much distance you can cover in an hour of driving in the U.S. vs. Japan can get quite ridiculous.
How is the driving in your country?
