[Tervuren]

I find here in the US, a lot of impatient drivers seem to expect me to roll through stopsigns/redlights. I nearly get creamed when I come to a full stop. Its very hair raising.

One of the other things that bugs me, is that other drivers seem to have some very awful reaction times. I'll be behind a car, and a car from a side road makes a left turn cutting across them, they don't even hit their brakes until after the left turning car had already cleared them. IF they had of been on a collision course, they'd of made it to the brake pedal at the time of impact.

Also, if you are at the front at a red stoplight - pay attention to the intersection!!! Especially in rush hour. The moment it turns green, get moving. You can do this by looking at the lights in the other direction, learn your intersections on your daily drive. The other side of watching for when it will turn green, is you will be less likely to be hit by someone running a red light. Instead of just looking up and seeing its green, and going, you've been looking around paying attention, although I like to start rolling the moment(or just before) the light turn green, I make darn sure I'm not going to be hit if I move into the intersection from someone trying to run a red light.

The sooner the cars in front start rolling, the more traffic can make it through the intersection, this is very important in times of heavy traffic.

Finally, American's seem to have forgotten how to use their blinkers. Combined with following too close, we spend a lot of extra gas and brake parts from hard braking and then acceleration caused by the two. A better follow distance allows you to just roll off the gas when they turn on their blinker, you won't have to use the brakes at all, and you can slow down to say, 40MPH in a 45, instead of 25MPH that you'd have to if you where on their bumper.