[CaliGrrl]

Originally Posted by Alex

What I've always felt as the courteous (and safe, and least stressful) way to drive is to not impose my will on other cars, hoping to directly influence their behavior in some way. If someone is going faster than me, if I have a way to easily let them pass without significantly affecting their speed/path or mine, I should do so. If I am traveling faster than someone else, I'd want to find my way past without forcing other drivers to speed up, slow down, change path. The more crowded the roads are, the less possible it is to implement it fully; traffic in general is going to keep everyone from driving the speeds they prefer in the lane they prefer with the following distance they prefer.

Yeah, I'm here, too. I drive super-defensively, working to stay out of the way of crazy people.