Ladies and gentlemen, I have lived and worked in the States and Canada for 15 years, with daily driving, a hundred km per day and up. The maximum speed limit in Canada (Ontario) on a highway is 105 kilometers per hour. Yes, you read that right. On a main road it is 80 km. per hour. That's it.
This was commented on "Facebook" by anthropologist Svetoslav Stamov.
One more thing. In nearly 10 years of driving in Canada, I have not seen a single overtaking in the oncoming lane. Yes, you read that correctly again - if there is a tractor in front of you driving at 20 on a main road with a maximum speed of 80, an endless line forms, but no one overtakes the tractor even though there are no cars in the oncoming lane and even though overtaking is allowed. No one, zero - and I've been watching this for 10 years.
In the States (eastern states - New York, New Jersey) the maximum speed allowed (on a highway) is 60 miles. 100 kilometers per hour. That's it. In North Carolina on I-95 there are sections with a maximum speed of 65 miles per hour. 105 kilometers per hour.
You can drive for hours on the highway (I once drove for 15 hours non-stop) without passing anyone and without anyone passing you, and you're in the middle of a line of cars, and the one in front of you leaving Chapel Hill is still in front of you 5 hours later, on the outskirts of New York, and so is the one behind you - no one is passing anyone. Everyone drives at the same speed - exactly 65 miles per hour - from trucks to Porsches.
If you exceed the speed limit by more than 5 miles or if you drive 5 miles *slower* than 65 (or the other drivers) they pull over immediately and either give you a ticket or they directly take your car out of circulation (if it can't maintain 65 miles per hour continuously, they scrap it right in front of your eyes).
I know this post will fall on deaf ears or on deaf eyes that stare madly. Once again - in 10 years I have never seen anyone in Ontario, Canada pass another person on a two-way street, passing in the oncoming lane, regardless of how empty the lane is and whether overtaking is allowed. They don't move.
The roads in Canada are full of potholes because of the terrible continental climate - minus 30 degrees in winter, +40 degrees in summer, lots of rain and snow, the asphalt crumbles to pieces in a few months. The intercity roads in Ontario (for example Niagara Falls - Toronto, through which the US - Ontario traffic passes) are like bombed - you can't beat the climate.
It's the same in Bulgaria. The problem is not the roads at all. The problem is the arrogance and stupidity of the mass Bulgarian driver, who is currently reading this posting and exclaiming to himself “He, what does he write? How come the maximum speed allowed in Canada is 100 kilometers on a highway and no one overtakes anyone on a highway, or on a secondary or first-class road, where they drag their Audis, Mercedes and Ferraris at 80 kilometers per hour? My God, what simple people. Well, yes, there are no victims of traffic accidents there, while Bulgaria is in first place in Europe in terms of people killed on the road, but is that life?“
Right?
You're looking for the problem in the wrong place, guys... You won't see this in Hollywood movies, nor will you admit it without having seen it live. This above is an important triviality that, as a rule, no one ever mentions, so that we don't realize how stupid, arrogant and irresponsible we are, for which everyone else (and the roads) are to blame on the road.