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Title: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: jnufcuk on 30 July 2011, 13:06
Just on my holiday in Italy (ravello) and coming from airport to here which is about choirs away I have never seen so many near crashes. However it all works out ok as everyone seems to be a it and somehow it all goes smoothly lol  :smiley:

There really isnt a need for lines in the roads as they just drive in the middle swaying and cutting people up all the time.

Scary stuff just glad we got coach and didn't hire a car as I think I would have given up  :grin:
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 30 July 2011, 13:12

Have you tried pulling out of a junction, now that's brown trousers time.

Italian drivers do fast and stop. That's it. However, as they all drive this aggressive way you will soon find that they are all very good drivers.  You just have to go with the flow and you'll be fine.
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: gibby on 30 July 2011, 14:11
.....when in Rome, so to speak.
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: Evoss on 30 July 2011, 15:33
I found it exciting driving in Italy. Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Makes UK drivers look like a bunch of pansys xD

Driving around the Chamonix area in France is much the same (on border with Italy)
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: JulesS3 on 30 July 2011, 19:28
Lived there for 6 months and drove, they are better drivers than here. The bad drivers crash. You know if someone is going to do something, you dont have to guess if he will pull out on you, you know he will so you slow down.

I loved it!
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 30 July 2011, 20:29
You obviously haven't been to morocco, specifically marrakech.... THAT is an experience.
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: JC on 30 July 2011, 20:40
sure Lewy will agree,

try driving in afghan or iraq - THEN you know about interesting driving  :shocked:

Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: Lewy on 30 July 2011, 22:49
Only ever driven in Um Qsar just after the invasion in 03' and I was so tooled up no fecker was getting in our way!

Kuwait Cuty was a city full of 'close your eyes and hope for the best' type of drivers.

Now Norway was a different kettle of fish........
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: monkeyalan on 31 July 2011, 00:01
Australians are just selfish thoughtless cnuts.......and as for their driving...
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: THE_Liam on 31 July 2011, 17:40
My mates family are from Mumbai, I went over there with him for a couple of weeks last year. Rented this little "Maruti" thing for a few days, the seats were a dark brown when I gave it back. Best one was a truck coming straight at me on the wrong side of the road with its full beams on, I just sat there in traffic gobsmacked, waiting to die. Next thing I know my mate is telling me to drive onto the kerb because trucks have right of way no matter what. I then noticed every other car in the queue driving onto the pavement....
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: monkeyalan on 31 July 2011, 23:55
So as the road death statistics confirm , the general concensus here is that the only people on earth who can drive properly are northern europeans.  :grin:
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: russ-vdub on 01 August 2011, 19:35
Never been to Bangkok then.. That place is absolute mayhem!! As is China, some serious dodgem style sh!t there! But agreed, Italy is pretty mental!
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: Mitching on 01 August 2011, 19:43
I used to drive to college in Luton.
Now that's an experience!
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: dan_apps on 01 August 2011, 21:49
rome yes thats an experience.

now Budapest...thats something completely different! i watched a lambo race a ktm down the boulevard, thing is there are pedestrian crossing every so often with lots of tourists about! ...they didnt care too much!
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: dom on 02 August 2011, 01:25
I have just got back from Rome and agree that the driving in absolutely insane :shocked:

I'd say it's probably on par with, if not worse than the driving in Thailand :shocked:
Title: Re: Drivers in Italy. Wow!
Post by: pigbladder on 02 August 2011, 12:14
Australians are just selfish thoughtless cnuts.

hehe not wrong there