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First of all, i am from europe and i have never seen worse and more scared drivers as in Australia.
This rain situation on the Hume highway is just going back to allowing parents to teach their children to drive.
With this i mean as an example: my wife teaches my kids to drive and they stay scared and way to careful.
After months of driving lessons from my wife, my daughter didn't get anywhere and was still scared of other traffic around her.
Then i was teaching her to drive and forced her to drive the speed limit all the time (before she was doing 15K under).
After a while she became a confident driver and looked ahead.
With this i am saying that if you don't teach children defensive driving and also confident driving, the traffic will stay crap for a long time to come.
Some examples: going onto/off the freeway with 60K/hr, stopping at a roundabout (even when nothing is approaching from the right).
A tiny bit of rain and people start to drive slow straight away.
You can pick out the drivers who are confident and are looking ahead straight away (they are the ones who keep driving but also adjust to slower drivers).
Also a lot of people think they are the only ones on the road and whenever they switch on their indicator, it means they have right of way and they just move in your lane and you just have to get out of the way for them.
PS: i still don't understand why people slow down on the freeway while they can do that on the long off ramp and only start to speed up as soon as they are on the freeway(who is so dumb to go onto the freeway with 60 to 80Km/Hr is beyond me, but i see it every day).
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