It’s very interesting how much culture (and I suppose population density and jurisdiction too) can affect driving style.
As for Italy, there’s a throwaway line in a Dave Snowden talk about how drivers in Italy (Naples? Rome?) can be observed to follow the same basic ‘rules’ as a birds in a flock—kind of a Simon’s Ant thing about how seemingly complex behavior actually is operating on a small set of simple rules.
It’s very interesting how much culture (and I suppose population density and jurisdiction too) can affect driving style.
As for Italy, there’s a throwaway line in a Dave Snowden talk about how drivers in Italy (Naples? Rome?) can be observed to follow the same basic ‘rules’ as a birds in a flock—kind of a Simon’s Ant thing about how seemingly complex behavior actually is operating on a small set of simple rules.