Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“I recently took a reporting trip to Finland, where I rented a car. Driving to my hotel, I was shocked at the incredibly civilized road manners on Finnish highways, thanks in large part to the omnipresent speed cameras and tickets that are assessed as a percentage of one’s income (121,000 euros, in one recent case). To Americans, this might seem like a typical example of nanny-state overreach. For many drivers here, freedom is when you get to drive your giant, powerful, heavy car with total disregard for the law and the safety of other drivers — as I saw on the drive to Newark Airport to catch my flight, during which I was nearly run off the road by a bunch of hooligans swerving through traffic at a hundred miles an hour.” (09/14/23)
https://prospect.org/world/2023-09-14-nordic-way-of-freedom/