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Is it really possible that American driving manners are better than Japanese ones? That has to be a mistranslation or embellishment. I might believe it of othe

Is it really possible that American driving manners are better than Japanese ones? That has to be a mistranslation or embellishment. I might believe it of other Asian nations, where traffic lanes and rules are more suggestions than anything else, but I cannot believe that Japanese drivers are anything like the aggressive, presumptuous, arrogant, frankly insane drivers we have here. And I count myself in their number!

shortsightedsid 13y ago
> I might believe it of other Asian nations, > where traffic lanes and rules are more suggestions > than anything else Haha. So, true.
jimbokun 13y ago
Pittsburgh drivers are shockingly polite. Moved from here to New Jersey, then back again. Was hard to adjust coming back, with the person across from you at an intersection patiently waiting for you to go first.
- greenrice 13y ago
  "The Pittsburgh Left" is very common practice there, which is to give the right of way to the opposite car in the intersection that is turning left. Definitely a much more relaxed and polite driving environment than anywhere on the east/west coasts.
snogglethorpe 13y ago
> Is it really possible that American driving manners are better than Japanese ones? It's absolutely and utterly untrue. Japanese drivers are generally very good, and tend to be reasonably polite/easy-going (the notable exception being anybody in a Ferrari or the like, but that's universal I guess), both in the countryside and in big cities. There are some annoying ingrained habits in Japanese driving (e.g. there's always a car or two that drives through when the light turns red, they seem to ignore yellow completely), but by and large they're fairly law-abiding. As a pedestrian, one doesn't feel like a target / second-class citizen (I'm referring to driver attitude here, though of course better urban design also helps). American drivers, welll....... ><

shortsightedsid 13y ago

> I might believe it of other Asian nations, > where traffic lanes and rules are more suggestions > than anything else Haha. So, true.

jimbokun 13y ago

Pittsburgh drivers are shockingly polite. Moved from here to New Jersey, then back again. Was hard to adjust coming back, with the person across from you at an intersection patiently waiting for you to go first.

greenrice 13y ago
"The Pittsburgh Left" is very common practice there, which is to give the right of way to the opposite car in the intersection that is turning left. Definitely a much more relaxed and polite driving environment than anywhere on the east/west coasts.

snogglethorpe 13y ago

> Is it really possible that American driving manners are better than Japanese ones? It's absolutely and utterly untrue. Japanese drivers are generally very good, and tend to be reasonably polite/easy-going (the notable exception being anybody in a Ferrari or the like, but that's universal I guess), both in the countryside and in big cities. There are some annoying ingrained habits in Japanese driving (e.g. there's always a car or two that drives through when the light turns red, they seem to ignore yellow completely), but by and large they're fairly law-abiding. As a pedestrian, one doesn't feel like a target / second-class citizen (I'm referring to driver attitude here, though of course better urban design also helps). American drivers, welll....... ><