Driving habits

Jamie, my brother in-law, has started up a blog of his own. So far, he has mostly written about driving. Aside from a short Mini Cooper review (he likes it), the entries are rants about bad or inconsiderate drivers in Calgary.

In the spirit of Jamie's blog, here are my two pet peeves about Victorian drivers.

1) People veer left, into the next lane, and then turn right. I guess this is so that they can make a sharper right hand turn without hitting the curb. It always freaks me out though: just how far left are they going to go? Are they changing lanes into me? I wonder if they are teaching this maneuver in driving school out here or something, as I don't recall ever seeing this in Calgary.

2) Late use of signal lights. The signal light is pretty much useless when you turn it on five feet before you turn. Some people also neglect to turn on their signal light when they intend to merge. I will generally make a space for people if I can see the blinken light, but looking for people checking their blind-spot (it's nice that they do though) is less reliable.

What is your worst driving habit? Mine is changing lanes very late when I pass another car. Gotta stop doing that!

And that all I have to say about that (at the moment).