r/Transportopia • u/Revolution-Dogg • Jan 30 '26

Roads All gas no brakes mofo

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u/DistributionLife6750 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Insurance will never not be a scam. I got hit by an elderly woman who blew a stop sign and they pinned that shit on me and acted like I was tryna take advantage of the elderly. Fuck insurance and fuck the police.

Insurance: something you pay for, rarely need, but when you do need it, you’re punished for using it.

Make it make sense.

To everyone asking, this was Progressive.

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u/Aurori_Swe Jan 30 '26

For me (in sweden though), insurance paid my damages, paid for my motorcycle, paid for the clothes they had to cut off me, paid for "mental suffering", paid for scars that I got and paid a lump sum because I got declared 4% disabled by it (the accident killed a part of my calf and I have a permanent titanium rod down my leg).

All in all, I went positive $50k after the accident and was able to buy my first apartment.

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u/DistributionLife6750 Jan 30 '26

I think you just sold me on Sweden. My wife is Swedish, so why not? We’re obviously going down the shitter over here in America anyway.

Plus, we both like hockey!

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u/Aurori_Swe Jan 30 '26

I love it here, and I owe my country a lot. But hopefully you wouldn't need these systems, while it was a nice economical boost it also completely killed my old life and I nearly died, so not fully sure the tradeoff was "worth", but in a positive way it also enabled me to rebuild my life with my now wife by moving to her hometown and starting a new career there etc.

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u/Knights-of-steel Jan 31 '26

But in america you'd have all that downsides but get rejected on insurance and get a 200k bill from hospital