Originally Posted by Dan725

I think the main reason for it is that they are too busy yacking on the phone, drinking 32oz coffees and eating burgers; Americans spend so much time in the car they feel they have to "Multi-task", as it were.

Originally Posted by anabella

Maybe driving here isn't so bad after all

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

No you can't...you just think you can. Good morning Mr Seahorse.

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

Hello How are you this morning?

Originally Posted by Rushman

Perhaps if the cops had the brains to go to the passenger side of the vehicle to have a word with the driver and check his inspection/registraion (as they do almost everywhere else) the dozy bastards wouldn't get run over....and dont gimme that crap about the driver might have a gun and its safer at the drivers door......well as "more are killed at traffic stops than any other activity" it kinda proves that maybe standing with your arse 3 inches from a semi doing 65mph just incase the 90 year old blue rinse in the Buick Century is packing a loaded Smith and Wesson and wants to bust a cap in his ass isn't exactly the smartest thing in the world to be doing.

Originally Posted by dukeynorton

That's well funny, almost as funny as seeing people in the gym on the treadmill talking on their mobile phone!!! What is that all about? Anyway, here in Texas, driving is a nightmare, particularly on the motorway. I think the exits are the most dangerous feature, its like driving round Monaco F1 circuit at some points. The road signs are awful/non-existent, the road surfaces are the worst I have ever driven on and the lane discipline is non-existent. I also agree with some of the other points here about having to cross five lanes of traffic in 50 yards to get onto the motorway in the first; that is really common in San Antonio. Its a bit of a death run really!

Originally Posted by Seahorse3

Hey Jersey, how are you. Hope all is well.

Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts

Just to add to number 3. Why, oh why, do they slow down when they see a cop car on the other side of the highway? It's especially annoying when there is no physical way that they can actually get to your side and you can see them, out of the car, pointing at the traffic on the other side.

As to the lane closures, agree 100%. There is a lot of construction going on outside my office, not highway but there are still lane closures and with 2 sets of lights it gets backed up quite a lot. A 3 lane road is now down to 1 lane and there is a very blatant arrow telling you to get over, and has been for weeks. Yesterday some donkey belts up the outside of everyone waiting to go through and then starts to cut in front of a white van that I'm behind, about 3 feet from the massive arrow. Well the van obviously thinks the car is a dick head because he doesn't let him in at which point the guy in the car is honking his horn and giving the finger, at the same time trying to cut in front of me. Until he gets a blast of my horn. Wankers. I don't mind if people genuinely look like they didn't know and they signal, try to get over early and wait until somebody lets them in, but the people who try to get a jump on the traffic and push in like they own the road can **** off.

Originally Posted by spaino

I just spent 21 days driving across and up the USA "about 5,500 miles" and actually was really impressed with the way the Americans drive, I don't think I have ever driven "or been" in a country where other drivers are so courteous... well, ok at least until we got to NJ and NY.

Have I shocked you all? sorry... really, both myself (NI Brit) and my Spanish wife where really impressed and never really came across any of the things that have been mentioned, maybe we where just lucky! or maybe it was a relief to be not dealing with Spanish and British roads for a while. lol

Originally Posted by Patrick Hasler

3) They slow down when they see a cop on the shoulder who is out of his car and giving someone else a ticket :curse::curse: .... FFS ! do they think he is gonna let that person go and chase them instead ? .... He isn;'t even in his car and has no idea how fast they are driving !

Originally Posted by AdobePinon

Perfect example this evening. Single cop out ticketing to sucker you in, 21 - yes, twenty one - cops on the backside of the hill to take down your ass.

Originally Posted by spaino

I don't think I have ever driven "or been" in a country where other drivers are so courteous... well, ok at least until we got to NJ and NY.

lol

Originally Posted by Rete

No, you haven't shocked this lifelong New Yorker. I have been educated to some degree by my Canadian husband in a few of my driving shortcomings, i.e. pulling to the middle lane when approaching an entrance ramp to allow merging traffic to enter. But then I rarely drove in the right lane as I prefer the middle lane anyway but he is a ball busting passenger and he prefers to go from middle to right all the time rather than keep a steady speed and stay in the middle. So I now tend to drive in the right lane just to shut him up.

With family and friends scattered from New York City's Westchester County to the shores of New Jersey to the wilds of Massachusetts and the shores of the Finger Lakes in Western NYS and the Quebec province of Canada, I have driven hundreds of thousands of miles.

In all my travels, I have to say that New Yorkers are good drivers in my opinion. For the most part, New Jerseyites aren't too bad either but as my b-i-l points out that is because the majority of them are transplanted from NY. Mass drivers are the pitts and forgetaboutit when it comes to Quebec drivers. Must be the French attitude ... the roads belong to me and don't get in my way LOL