 Why do people say that Asians are the worst drivers? When statistically speaking, they might just be the best driver. Yeah, we gotta talk about this viral video from self-proclaimed dad and nerd Brian Shoe. This is going viral on a ton of different platforms right now. So much discussion. Let's run the clip. Asians are not bad drivers. But yes they are. Asians have the least vehicle deaths in the U.S. by over 11 times the next lowest. But Asians make up a smaller percentage of population. Asians have the lowest vehicle death rate by over 4.5 times the next lowest. But Asians might drive less. Asians have the lowest vehicle deaths per miles traveled by nearly three times the next lowest. But Asians could be crashing and not dying. Crashing and not dying seems like better driving than crashing and dying. But a safe driver doesn't mean a skilled driver. Crashing and dying does not seem like skilled driving. But Asians just don't know how to operate a car. Asians made your car and are three of top five at selling cars in America. But I saw a bad Asian driver yesterday. I don't care. Show me the data. But Asians are still bad drivers. Asians might be the best drivers. Oh my goodness Andrew! People have stereotypes but Brian came with facts. But I guess facts don't necessarily tell the whole picture either. David if Asians are the safest drivers why do people still say that Asians are the worst drivers. Let's break it down. I love his delivery. It's very very odd. But it's actually very like I don't know stark. It's hilarious actually. But anyways guys so generally you know the stats are Asians have the lowest car deaths. Lowest deaths per hundred thousand people. Lowest deaths per hundred miles. Three of the top five car brands are from Asia. So of course I guess by causing deaths Asians by far do it the least. But still a lot of people generally even with these stats in their head will be like I don't know man. I still feel like Asians and particularly possibly Asian parents or Asian immigrants are the worst drivers. But what do they mean by that? Because even Asians said this themselves. Even Asians say it and obviously we all in our Asian lives have a lot of stories of like silly little things that maybe our parents or aunties have done in cars. But let's break this down with nuance guys. Please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the hot box because we're not here to throw Asians under the bus. But well also Asians don't throw themselves under the bus because they don't cause deaths. Is it possible that Asians are considered annoying driver drivers rather than unsafe whereas other groups maybe they're like less annoying but statistically more unsafe and more lethal. All right. I think this is I think this is the point here that I think if you look up think about other people like oh like a white person right they might be a better driver because they can you know they have better control or whatever they know how to parallel park more treating it like a sport. They take more pride in driving however maybe in that they're also more likely to drive drunk and speed right which also causes a lot of accidents. Asians possibly more timid and annoying in the sense that they might drive slower. I've seen it happen. Stop suddenly not signal. How much signal I need to cut across eight lane none. I turn now. Good luck everybody else. Make stupid silly little moves. But but you know what it is. I think the underlying motivation is almost being too scared. Yeah whereas other people might be like too confident and reckless in a different they're both not optimal. They're both not how you would want to drive but they're motivated by different emotions. But also again you also have to look at the rate of road rage. Do you think Asians road rage is probably the lowest too. For sure. But like it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen right right right. It's possible that Asians if they do cause an accident it's more like a fender bender or bumper to bumper tap where insurance actually doesn't get called because Brian Andrew he had more of like the 10 out of 10 downside outcome lethal right people dying right. Yes exactly. Yeah like I think it also has to do with how many wild or crazy people you have. If you have a lot of wild crazy people in a group it could skew the aggregate statistics a little bit. Yeah. Right. Yeah like I just think that Asians I think people are OK saying that Asians are the safest drivers or least lethal drivers. But a bunch of people are still going to say oh man I was annoyed by what that Asian lady did on the road the other day. Is it because in the West Andrew driving micro skills like parallel parking and like the smoothness of your turn accelerating through the apex. These are almost all tied in with like Western culture or masculinity. And in the East I see in my opinion driving unless you're a driving enthusiast is just viewed as like just a way to get from point A to point B. Yeah that's true. Yeah. Anyway let's just get into the comment section guys a lot of talk right here. Somebody said man they drive pretty good in Asia and then somebody said no they don't. This is yes and no right. This is very interesting because I don't know exactly the stats in Vietnam China South Korea Japan. But I will say this that in certain countries like sometimes China or Southeast Asia there's almost like it looks like there's no rules to the road. But then like it seems like people are under control so at least seems like controlled chaos because people aren't driving as fast. It's true in America we drive really fast. The roads are big the cars are fast the cars are big and the highways are big so therefore you're speeding. But in other countries and even in the city of New York within the city limits people don't drive that fast. Yeah I mean to be honest I think there's a variance. I wouldn't be surprised if Japan had the best driving South Korea came in number two and then like you know the rank just went down from there. To be honest but if you really think about Asia in general Andrew it really depends as long as everybody's on the same page and everybody's aware of how everybody else is going to react. Sometimes it can look very chaotic but the outcome can be pretty much okay because everybody knows the same like operating system that everybody else is operating. Got it got it. This guy said nah I grew up in an Asia community and even the sidewalks and parking lots were not safe for pedestrians. I almost got mowed down before so this stereotype proves it correct in my experience. I don't care what the data says and somebody says have you ever seen Asians driving in a 99 ranch or other Asian parking lots? Like you might get hit. So this kind of goes back to it's like the stats are the stats though. You know what I mean? I have never seen anybody get killed in a 99 ranch parking lot but I will admit it is frustrating to park in a 99 ranch parking lot. I think annoying or unpleasant is the word. I could see that or timid drivers and honestly like it's so weird in America. It's like when you know like in America if you know someone is scared it almost makes it worse like people hate scared people in America and I do think Asians drive scared but I don't think they're most dangerous but I definitely know what they mean by like oh I all like everybody feels like they almost got hit by an Asian driver before. Oh man no for sure I mean listen guys you just got to go to an Asian uncle but let's be honest I mean it depends even the socioeconomic status. When you're in 626 Garvey Valley main Las Tunis Huntington those streets are all almost completely Asian but Huntington is the safest to drive on because it's the nicest one. Yeah yeah yeah that's true. Somebody said it's not that Asians are bad drivers it's just that some of them are inconsiderate and rude you know you have to be pushy you have to cut in it depends somebody said what's the definition of a good driver faster arriving five minutes earlier precise what about having a scratch on the car but no crash what does it mean to be skilled versus safe. I think this is what a lot of Asian parents tell themselves in their minds like a lot of Asian immigrant parents are probably like hey you know like I got there okay nobody gets hurt you know yeah I ding up the car a little bit but you know I don't know that's my car I pay for the car so it don't matter. Right this guy tried to explain it he said Asians are awful drivers not in the sense of accidents or deaths but in driving etiquette I'm not talking about the Asian American in a modded car that's clearly on some fast and furious tip I'm talking about your average older Asian American male or female driving a minivan or a luxury SUV drifting slowly in the left lane or way below the speed limit aggravating other drivers not pulling up to the middle of the box to let drivers pass behind them giving up the right of way at inappropriate times being overly cautious will definitely keep them out of accidents but it just absolutely pisses everyone else off on the road. Let me tell you this I can say this as an Asian who went to Chinese driving school in China we only drive to pass the road test nothing about good driving etiquette. Yo his examples hilarious slowly drifting left with the minivan I've kind of seen it I've kind of seen it man I guess somebody said it's weird because Asians are too cautious and oblivious at the same time what a weird combination that pisses everybody off yeah yeah hey Andrew did they have a way to describe it this was better than how I was going to describe it yeah and here's what I think I think the most deadly drivers to be honest are speeding and they're probably intoxicated so I think that those probably cause the most deaths and I just think Asians like even if you're driving slow but you're about to like run into the curb technically if you're going kind of slow you have time to save yourself and save other people you know even though it is kind of it's annoying and it's almost like and I love you know I love Jay Lin shout out to Jay Lin he's our friend but is it almost like other races are driving like Russell Westbrook taking some sort of reckless drive into the lane and then other Asian drivers are like Jeremy that one game uh when he was on the nicks against the heat remember when they were like full court pressing him with Norris Cole and stuff like that I'm saying that like those you could create a turnover two different ways yeah yeah and I think that in general Asians don't pass the eye test when it comes to driving they don't pass the eye test Andrew this is a white perspective in my experience it's not that Asians think they own the road it's just they're often driver timid drivers that want to stay out of everybody's way so much that they end up getting in everybody's way what a way with words and they said my experience is they're just well-meaning but overly timid drivers he had a bunch of other details as well uh yeah that's a funny way to say it this person said same thing for men saying women can't drive but women get better rates for insurance because we drive safer and kill people less that is true but in a parallel parking contest would you bet on a man or a woman right of course so I guess men are the more confident drivers right but confidence leads to deadly turnovers just like Westbrook that's I knew how the analogy worked out oh my gosh Russell Westbrook you are the most American driver ever do you want to play basketball like Russell Westbrook or John Stockton okay you know what I mean like John Stockton try to minimize the passes you know turnovers but all his assists were just a little pick and roll little pocket passes through the corner man why can Asians be like Steph Curry driving to the basket somebody said I think that dangerous driving has a lot more to do with what type of car you're driving look at how many uh cars accidents are caused by mustangs or chargers hitting pedestrians because those are the cars that typically think they own the road think about how many speeding tickets that BMWs get it has more to do with what type of car you buy because that shows your personality and your adherence to the law I'm not gonna lie man I've seen BMWs speed a lot um and or people were pointing out that family guy cartoon where the the Asian female reporter gets home safe but then causes like 10 accidents on her way to the destination so this is the person who is arguing that like Asians don't uh are not directly involved in the deadly accidents but rather causing them no I don't I don't think that Asians can cause that many accidents and not be involved in them so that's why I think that's a stereotype that non Asians try to push on to Asians because they know Asians are the safest drivers because with the lethal statistics yeah yeah so they try to say oh well Asians cause all the crashes then but I'm like what do you mean how can Asians cause other crashes and not be in them like at some point like what you think Asians are causing a bunch of deadly crashes I can see them causing some like people being like oh you know what I mean no that's not a crash annoyance that's what people are saying they take the annoying factor of Asians and they turn it into stereotype about how Asians are the worst drivers I get it that's where stereotypes come from there has to be a shred of truth and the shred of truth is that maybe they're annoying and a little bit oblivious drivers that's maybe that's the truth hey Mark Norman has a joke about like hey I noticed that you never see Asians in any accidents but uh who knows what they're causing them um Andrew Joe Koy also has a famous joke about Japanese car engineers basically saying you know they make the best cars over there you think they don't know how to drive them right right um Andrew what are the takeaways man with the comment sections you know they were so funny they had so many comments this way and that way I mean this is my overall takeaway is that Asians do not in general especially that portion of Asians that you would consider bad drivers again not the fast and furious Tokyo Drift Nelson Chan stick shift a little uh that's the Tokyo Fast and Fast Initial D type Asians and the JDM yeah like uh I don't think I'm a bad driver but I think that a lot of Asians don't take pride in being perfect drivers I think that and perfect and confident drivers which I think a lot of other Americans might take pride in right and but on the other side Americans again maybe are overconfident they speed more they drink more they're more likely to be in a criminal instance running away from the cops whatever it is that's causing a crash you know what I mean so I think I mean those uh I don't really see that many Asian side shows yeah you know the car side shows exactly those people that are doing those donuts in the middle of the intersection they're probably highly skilled drivers but how come it seems like the outcome of a lot of these side shows is somebody always getting like paralyzed yeah no I would say someone who is doing those side shows is highly skilled but also highly likely to be causing a crime yeah just I'm just saying because you kind of have to have skills to even be doing donuts in a car you know I don't know how to do that um so I guess at the end of the day David I don't know maybe more what if everybody was a timid Asian driver that would technically be more safe though yeah I'm actually a bigger fan ultimately of a lot of cameras I think in the future we're gonna have AI tags we're gonna have car sensors they're gonna be like yo you are doing donuts right now illegally in a public school zone shutting car down people people you are gonna say that's infringing on their freedoms but otherwise also why are you doing donuts near a school elements you are trying to ghost ride the whip at 20 miles per hour um let us know what you think of this stereotype in the comment section below guys obviously stereotypes sometimes there's a shred of truth some of the times there's a larger than a shred of truth what do you guys think about this stereotype that Asians are the worst drivers but now statistically as far as lethal statistics go Asians are the best safest non-killer drivers you know what I'm gonna say I'm gonna say new stereotype Asians care the least about having proper driving etiquette that's that's what I'm gonna say or maybe they just don't know it yeah who knows man let us know what you think in the comment section below what is your own personal experiences with this like we said all these things there's not one truth to them sometimes it's very gray more Asian drivers on the road I'm saying it more Asians on the road more timid annoying Asian drivers the stats are there man Asians don't kill anybody let us know what you think in the comment section below until next time we with the hop-hop boys we out