Darn, you guys should see how people drive here, in Cyprus...the other day, a traffic police car here (they have Mazda 3 V6) was like freakin' centimeters away from me on the highway and not like they were on a highway pursuit after me in my 45 bhp car
, in fact they were probably off-duty, after probably 1-2 km's stuck to my ass they blasted past me...
I've lived in the US (FL) for about a year and the driving there, the drivers' behavior on the road is soooo far from what I've experienced here...Accidents almost everyday on my shortish 15km commute each way, kids (i mean <16) riding on one wheel, etc.
But you know what ? after founding this site and striving for more and more MPG through my congested drive I have actually realized I also increased my safety and probably that of others. Nowadays I never drive too close to anybody in front of me, I do make sure to tap the brake pedal for those behind me to know I'm coasting
and in general I try not to let myself "pushed" by what the others do in traffic...and believe me, most of the time I feel like the sheep in the huge pack of wolves with people racing from stop-light to stop-light, changing lanes at all times almost never using their indicators, etc.
I'm actually curios if anybody here has been to Cyprus or maybe Lebanon (I've heard driving habits there are even worse
). I could only find 1 post from somebody else here in CY using the search function
Link.
Anyway, sorry for the lengthy off-topic