100% quagmire. We are the worst, lowest skilled driving country in the world... I'll stop here 'cuz I could write a treatise on that!
I almost spit my coffee all over my computer when I read this... I hope you someday get the opportunity to drive in a middle eastern country.
BTW, I think we've completely hijacked this thread...
I had plenty of time to think your post over today during my hour commute in Cairo traffic to get to work, and my 1.5hr commute to return home. Due to differing routes my commute is approximately 20mi to work and 13mi on the trip home, and no, that's not backwards.
During my commute today I witnessed three traffic accidents, had at least seven cars come to a complete stop in front of me in the middle lane of the road for no apparent reason, was cut off countless times by cars that were turning left from the far right lane (or vice versa) without any regard to who was still moving straight and watched in awe as dozens of cars, buses and fully loaded dump trucks backed up on the highway because they missed their exit. I regularly watch people dive in front of traffic to get across the road (check out this link:
Crossing the Roads in Cairo). Should I also mention the donkey carts that drive in the middle of the streets, or the complete disregard for any kind of lane? I drive in traffic daily as three lane roads turn into six or more, with cars just inches apart, all of them jockeying to get that one car length ahead of their neighbor. I could go on with more examples, but I just hate to think about it.
Please, before you make yourself sound like a typical American (I am one) that has never left the country (I am not one) educate yourself on the subject you are posting about.
Try this...
American drivers are nowhere near the worst or lowest skilled. Cairo drivers are also not the worst, ever driven in Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, S. Korea or Thailand? I have...