The post is based on very little world knowledge for sure.
We used to bet on taxi cab races when we pulled into port in other countries.
It was just something we did and most scariest trips were in the Med and France "who for the most part are relaxed people" and we were both in the cab so we diddnt coax or bribe them. scariest was in tel aviv I had a death grip in that one thought for sure he was going to smush pedestrians and nobody really acted surprised by his driving.
I can go on and on but to put it simply you must not drive interstate in Canadian Metropolitan areas very much. Ive been all over there too and they have no true respect for foul weather. see I can generalize about yall also!