Arik – yes, that’s about right. I’m pretty sure some people wave their fists at me when I drive past 😉

Regarding education – I don’t have any bright ideas about this, but I’d welcome any who might suggest something.

I have not been to the Iberian peninsula yet, but I’ve driven in a lot of places – including the British isles (freeways are mostly great, country roads much less so), central Europe (they can put some work into freeways as well) and the US (who the fsck thought of the brilliant idea of building concrete motorways?), and they could definitely use a page out of the Israeli roads company’s book (granted, its hard to maintain roads in Ohio’s weather, but still).

And the drivers – even when they drive like mad man (see under “Italian Drivers”), they have much better road manners then Israelis, please don’t confuse manners with “pleasant driving”.