Comments by "Science in Engineering" (@matsv201) on "American Reacts to How Do The United States u0026 Europe Compare?" video.

  1. I was flying from NYC to Florida (i´m Swedish) and i sat next to a very friendly Floridian lady coming back from some business in NYC. I was saying something about NY attitude and she was totaly agreeing with me and saying something "yea they believe they are European, but they have no clue what Europe is"
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  2. 10:12 This is also a bit misleading, because they only count professional armies. The largest army in Europe is Finland that got a full war time army of 280 000 personnel that can be engage in one time, with a total army reserve of 900 000 people. And its worth saying those 280 000 people are extremely well equipped. So they are well comparable to UK. While Finland navy and airforce is a bit smaller, there army is absolutely massive.
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  3. The sunligjt one is a bit missleading because it dont messure night time sunligt. You might say.. "but the sun is not up at night" Well, it are here
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  4.  @bjornh4664  Well Sweden is diverse. In the core of Stockholm or a village in Norrland is very different
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  5. 8:25 the driving one is a bit missleading because a number of nation have alternative license (typically called AM) that allows people typically from age 14 or 15 to drive a car like vehicle. Its typically with a limitation of top speed and/or weight. I know in france it use to be 80 on back 40 years ago, but they slowered it to 50. In Sweden we have AM that allow 15 year old to drive vehicles that is called M1, M2, T1 and T2. that have a speed limit of 45km/h, 30km/h, 40km/h and 30km/h and maximum weight of 425 and 425kg respectively and unrestricted for the later two (So yes, a 15 year old can in Sweden drive 74tons legally. When you turn 16 you can drive a A1 vehicle with 2, 3 or 4 wheels with a maximum weight of 450 respectively 600kg with a maximum power of 11, 15 and 15kw respectively. Those can typically be driven to speed limit. Of cause a 600kg vehicle with 15kw will be sluggish, but that is the top registered weight. They can be as light as 150kg, then they are pretty responsive. So what 15 year old do is they buy a old used car and convert it to a T2 vehicle that is pretty easy to do, then they drive to the local supermarket, play Swedish equivalent to country music on high volume, an drink non alcoholic bear that have the combined advantages that they both can buy it and drive while drinking it. There are similar rules in a lot of european nations
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  6. Yea that is a bit ugly: But i would say its probobly quite a bit lower in northern europe. I know a guy that have his parrent living with him. That is. He have the deed of the house. Got it when he was 19 something because both of his parent was terrible with money and could not get a loan. So he bought it him self and have the parents living with him paying rent. I wounder how that is counted? (He threatened to throw them out several times if they don´t behave) Its worth saying that USA is in Europe map as a dot in the Atlantic.. just like it is in real life
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  7. There is similar law in a bunch of European countries but they are all different because they are legacy laws. In Sweden you can drive two kind of vehicle when you are 15. Both can technically be cars. The first one have a maximum weight of i think it is 900kg and a maximum speed of 45km/h. The other one is restricted to 30km/h but have no weight limit. You can carry as much as the roads allow. (typically 74 tons). The irony of it is when you are 18 and get a real license, you are only alowed to carry 3.5 tons (while you of cause still are alowed to drive the slow vehicles with 74 ton load). The thing is a skilled mechanic can do the conversion in 20-30 minutes from a normal car and then just reregister it. (three is a limitation here, the registered maximum weight of the car still applies when they are converted to 30km/h
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  8.  @jmi5969  In EU they try to standardized the driving license to set categories. Most EU nation follow the standard broadly. The full standard is. AM, A1, A2, A, B1, B, B96, BE, C1, C, C1E, CE, D1, D1E, D, DE (and there is a special taxi license). Some countries just don´t have some of them. Like in Sweden B1 don´t exist. You simple take B and you get B1 automatically. That is by the way true for all "1" license. For example if you get a C license, you get a C1 for free. You get a BE license, you get a B96 license. Anyway AM license is typical 14-16 year of age in most of Europe. This is basically where you get to drive a power and speed restricted car. (or car like vehicle). A1 is power and weight restricted but not speed. Typically you can get it when you are 16. The specific vehicle you can drive with a AM and A1 license is different from nation to nation. For example in Sweden with a AM license you can drive 4 types of vehicle. Moped class 1 and 2 and tractor class 1 and 2. And for tractor type 2 the regulation is very lose. So you can take a car, make like 3 simple modification to it, Just go to the registration service, and boom your car is now a class 2 tractor. and you can drive it as a 15 year old. In France they the restriction is 50km/h for AM license and the age is 14. Back in the 80s, the speed restriction was as high as 80 km/h and no license needed.There was a lot of 14 year old that died. Like loads of them
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  9. In sweden the farm rule was removed a few years back. So anyone can just buy a car, reregister it as a tractor, then drive it as a tractor. also with the combination of moped and tractor license in one, its way easier to get tractor license.
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  10. Still UK have a fairly large standing army considering the population. While the training become a bit pussified over the last decades, that is probobly true for Canada and USA as well. i would say probobly all of the Anglosphere. I would also add that Anglosphere is way larger than just USA and UK. Of cause its Canada as well, then Ireland, Australia and New Zeeland.. and actually a few more country, Guinea, Jamaka, Bahamas and Belize Then there is the hybrid Anglosphere. That is countries that is to a part Anglosphere. Like south Africa (where i lived as a echange student), Botswana, Nambia Nigera and a few other. South Africa is a interesting example: While only 10% is native to English, because there is 11 official Languages and the different groups really don´t like each other. English is sort of the go to common Languages of the country. Making it in effect way more than 10% anglospheric. There is a simular situation in Botswana and Nigeria where English is a really small Languages (like a few percentage) but due to the very large spreed, its still the common Languages. So this make it not only official, but also the one that is used in day to day because people cant understand each other other vice.
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  11. 9:30 In most European nations there is a 3 teared drinking regulation. This map is for the top tear only. Buying alcohol. Then there is a public supervision rule and a private supervision rule. In Sweden the age restriction is 20, 18 and 0... Yea.. 0. A literal newborn can legally drink alcohol. The The rules for giving kids under 18 alcohol is sort of specific and people giving children alcohol in any significant amount is a basically a non entity. Also a strange side effect of this is that children regardless of age are alowed at pubs (but not bars) There is a place in Spain that have a drinking exception from he already quite liberal drinking law, Balearic. Here is where all the divorced mom go with there teen age daughters. Give then €10 each and they can go out drinking, becasue there the age restriction for public drinking is 13 years old, and you can see droves of 13 year old roaming the streets 4 a clock in the morning piss drunk.
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  12.  @bjornh4664  i would say its diffrent between a urban, suburban and rural setting. Of cause, norland is basically the colony of sweden
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