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I consider a good driver to be someone who can read traffic. What I mean by that is someone who makes the correct decisions for the matter at hand.
An example is merging into freeway traffic. This drives me crazy seeing how incompetent people are, both at merging, and letting people merge. To me a good driver realizes that when they get on the freeway, by the time they reach the merge point they need to be moving at the same speed the traffic on the freeway is moving. Too many people merge into traffic while they are still going 25-30 mph slower than the traffic they are merging into. If you are already on the freeway a good driver will move from the right lane to the left lane if room is available in the left lane to allow merging traffic more room in the right lane to merge as well. A bad driver moves from the left lane to the right lane in an area where traffic is trying to merge in.
There are a ton of other examples of what makes a good driver versus a bad one, but awareness is the key in my book.
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