Cartuni

My opinion...

Obedient to traffic laws
Good reaction time (develops with experience)
Good judgment – knowing when to hit the brakes and when to accelerate to avoid a problem
Constantly on the defensive – knowing where the fools & pitfalls are at all times
Never distracted for more than a nanosecond
Considerate to other drivers

The weirdest bad driving I have witnessed in the last year:

Driver eating a bowl of cereal with milk while driving (seen this three different times)

Turning left at night from the right hand lane…on a red light…pulling a trailer (happened right in front of me)

So impatient to get into the left turn lane, which was blocked by traffic waiting to go straight, that the driver bottomed out their car driving over the curb (seen this twice – nice cars, too)

And this one – driver in a big truck pulling an expensive boat...traveling too fast…van pulls in front of him without using turn signal…he stomps on the brakes and jackknifes the boat…ends up flying into a Wendy’s front window, five feet off the ground. When two idiot drivers meet, it ain't pretty.

One more thing - here's a trick someone taught me about waiting for traffic to clear: count the seconds (you know, one-one thousand, two-one thousand). Ninety-nine percent of the time you'll be able to proceed in less than 30 seconds. So you're not wasting THAT much time to be safe.