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Originally Posted by George H.
I have a rant  Bad drivers. There should be a test to determine if a person has good judgement and decision making skills. Driving on a 4 lane divided street tonight. I'm in the inside lane with another vehicle 2 car lengths ahead of me. A car comes zooming up in the outside lane and cuts between me and the car ahead. Then immediately slows down and turns left. There are no cars behind us. What was the point. Nobody was chasing him.
Further down the road we're coming up to a green light. A car on the intersecting street has a red light but turns right in front of us as we're entering the intersection. I'm pretty sure whoever made that right on red law meant it's okay to turn right on red when there are no cars coming with a green light 
One more. I'm almost home when I see a car at a stop sign on a side street half a mile ahead. He waits until I'm 50 feet away and then pulls out into my lane. Some people should not be driving.
Okay... that was a rant
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Americans in general are among the poorest drivers in the world. What passes for drivers ed in this country is frankly a joke compared to the rest of the world.
Below features the Finnish driving exam:
How many average Americans do you think would pass that one?
Americans sadly have no real appreciation of automobiles, the top selling car is the 4 cylinder Toyota Camry, soulless, gutless, amorphic blob of car with no road feel and zero personality. It is so bad that even VW in 2012 has dumbed down its Passat (I have 2008 estate) to meet American's taste for the generic look and soft feel of its rivals. My only hope for an AFORDABLE car fun car in the future with any real soul lies in Mazda, as it has severed its ties with Ford, is building some truly engaging new vehicles on its own terms ( the 6 looks and drives better than anything in the Family car class, ditto the CX 5, and the upcoming 3 hatch back looks like an Alpha Romeo)
There is a lot of things I love about America, but our relationship to cars is not one of them.
Sorry to co-opt your rant George...