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[quote=Anonymous]The best drivers I've ever seen were in Turkey, where there is a complete lack of lane discipline.  I'll never forget two incidents when I was driving there.

The first one was when I pulled up to an intersection with a light.  I was the first or second person there, and stopped behind the line in the middle of my lane.  Then a car pulled up in the lane next to me.  Then a scooter pulled between us.  Then a third car pulled up to the right of the car next to me, on the shoulder.  Then two scooters and a motorcycle pulled up on my left and another one on my right.  Then a car came to a stop behind me, but crossing my lane and the next one.  This continued until it was a complete jam up.  But miraculously, when the light turned we all went, and it was fine.

The second one was on a 6-lane highway with no divider, when I was on a steep downhill that was leading to a steep uphill.  As I was traveling downhill at 60 mph in the middle lane with moderate traffic around me, there was a buggy of some sort coming the opposite direction in what, for him, was the right lane, also going steeply downhill.  He was going maybe 25 mph.  A bus was overtaking in the oncoming middle lane, going maybe 40, with cars driving in the oncoming left lane, at maybe 50-55 mph.  Suddenly a second bus starts to pass the first one, forcing the car traffic over the middle line into my left lane.  Then one of the cars in that lane decides to pass, with the oncoming traffic now 5-abreast on a 6-lane highway.  I had no escape route to the right and we're hurtling toward eachother at 100+mph (not to mention that there's also traffic on my left.  I thought we were going to die.  But the passing car was really zipping, as was the bus, and everyone got by and moved over without incident.

I was there for 6 weeks, and came to appreciate that the Turks were stone cold paying attention, driving as if their lives depended on it because they did.  I never saw a single accident, and what people did was far more predictable, once you got into the mind set that there are no rules other than every man for himself.[/quote]

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