California used to have some of the best drivers around. You’re taking your life in your hands when you go on our roadways today.
Here in Glendale some people think nothing of pulling out of driveways onto the road without looking. The me first attitude of some of our recent immigrants (over the last thirty years) is a beauty to behold.
While this 16% stat sounds interesting at first, there are some specific regulations that most of us have forgotten long ago, that are necessary to know, to pass the test. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a bad driver if you don’t remember some precise specifics.
Sounds like pay day.
The ‘Dale is especially scary...if it isn’t the crazy pedestrians walking out in front of you, it’s the 25 year old dude in a BMW 7 series blowing your doors off on Glenoaks...
True Glendale story: a friend was a brand-new GPD officer last year, and made his very first traffic stop....of a 7 Series Beemer, with a classic Glendalian driver. Driver gets out, and is outraged...Outraged! that he was stopped for going only 20 mph over the posted limit (in a residential area). Guy drove off, refusing to sign the ticket saying “Dis ees boolsh**t....”. So the punch line was his FTO saying “Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you about that....don’t worry, we’ll still fang the guy, but some of these folks think it’s beneath them to sign the ticket....”
This ain’t Mayberry anymore...
I lived in California until 13 years ago, and every time I go to visit, I wonder if the use of turn signals, especially on the freeways while changing lanes, has become optional.
Not that Arizona drivers are THAT much better. Here we have people unsafely crossing 3 or 4 lanes of traffic on the freeway at once so that they don’t miss their exit.