re: How good are you at driving interstates in big cities?

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Houston is like a traffic jam moving at 80mph.

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US drivers are shitty drivers, in general

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After driving in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Amman, Jordan, and Tel Aviv, Israel, I ain't scared of shite driving in this country.

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Anywhere in Italy is the same....Italians LOVE to drive 6 abreast in a roundabout designed for one. My son and I spent a month in a tent on the beach in Pisa one august and I took him to an amusement park almost every night and they had bumper cars. The first time he hit another kid the place nearly melted down.....the kids thought the point was to drive like hell in every direction like their parents did on the streets and not hit one another....when my son introduced slamming into one another the parents likened to have had a stroke...the kids, however, found it incredibly fun! By the time we left Pisa in September he had about 30 kids a night waiting for him to show up at the bumper car ride LOL....they had a blast. The parents never really approved but they saw their kids having fun and like parents are wont to do they allowed it.

At least Kuwait has lanes and nice, paved roads.

I'm an Atlanta native so I'm pretty used to it

The only thing that really scares me here is driving at night with all the transients and hoodlums and drunks and so forth, and a particular scenario that happens a fair amount here - where you're cresting an incline and there is a slowdown/stop on the other side. Atlanta's topography makes that a scary situation on and off interstate. That's less common on wide open connector interstate than spurs and exits and 400 but it does happen. I've been smoked in that situation and seen others nailed many times. Thankfully never a TT or a big multicar.

Atlanta stop and go can be bad and cause lots of accidents (coming in and out of deadlock where people accelerate thinking they're coming out of it and hit someone) - been in wrecks from that too - but those are usually relatively low speed.

Hey my serial downvoter/stalker,

I hope you have a Merry Christmas loser.

Yep

I’ll admit the dfw interstates and highways sort of intimidated me at first

I was used to 10 and 12 SELA

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I'm an Atlanta native so I'm pretty used to it

The only thing that really scares me here is driving at night with all the transients and hoodlums and drunks and so forth, and a particular scenario that happens a fair amount here - where you're cresting an incline and there is a slowdown/stop on the other side. Atlanta's topography makes that a scary situation on and off interstate. That's less common on wide open connector interstate than spurs and exits and 400 but it does happen. I've been smoked in that situation and seen others nailed many times. Thankfully never a TT or a big multicar.

Atlanta stop and go can be bad and cause lots of accidents (coming in and out of deadlock where people accelerate thinking they're coming out of it and hit someone) - been in wrecks from that too - but those are usually relatively low speed.

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Riverside Drive and Roswell Road is notorious for this. Those 2 roads are hilly as frick.

Not worth a damn. Coming back from Florida, it was 3:30 am going through baton rouge. I figured the rush hour traffic would be light. Nope. It was raining and I was half asleep and traffic was crazy. I just got behind a eighteen wheeler and just white knuckled it. It wouldn't have been as bad if I was fully awake.

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I do ok in Atlanta. Lived there a while. That's all I got.

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Theyre currently redoing both sides of the interstate 20/285 interchange so everything is extra shitty. Im waiting until about 9p to roll out from the truck stop in Madison because I dont want to lose a bunch of time in that traffic.