>> why you choose to drive around in an unfeasibly large pick up truck thingy
I would not drive around in anything small, you just get bullied by trucks and buses. And nothing gets out of your way and everything tries to push in front of you, often dangerously. Essential for comfortable travel is an f.off big truck with scratched and dented bumpers front and back, both covered in various colours of other people's car paint. And mine is impressively battle scarred.
As for the Scooter, because they are legal here they are not very often found on roads or pedestrian paths. Santiago has got a pretty good cycle path infrastructure. Wandering traffic warden type Wombles empowered to issue on the spot £80 fines for just about anything keeps the population reasonably in control.
Also, in the UK if you get something wrong on a scooter you pss lots of people off. In Chile you get splatted. It focusses the mind.
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