If this one gets enough votes and attention, would love to do a follow up poll which will go "Rating others as drivers, I would say that most people are ...". Then, putting the two polls together to interpret the answers will be fun.

      At the outset, I should let you know that I follow every rule, be it traffic, work, civic etc, very religiously. But I have stange observation from my experience.

       I actually do believe that it is always good for us to 'be in the majority', who are bad drivers. If you follow the rules when others do not, you will surely face trouble, or even worse, danger of an accident.

       Last week, I was dropping my parents to the airport early in the morning (about 7AM). I stopped at a signal on West of Chord road, near Basaveshwaranagar NPS. Even as was waiting for the lights to turn green in the middle lane, atleast 7-9 cars zipped across on both sides of my car. Every time I saw a car in the rear view mirror, i thought he was going to bang in hard into my car. It felt like being struck in the centre lane of an expressway!! Finally, terrified with the cars zooming past and my father shouting at me, I did jump the signal. Only when I started moving at a good pace, I felt relieved.

Lesson learnt:  Behave like others and stay safe. If 8 cars around you jump the signal, you better do so!!

I gave myelf a 'good' rating. The 'under 10%' times that I have been flouting the rules are during early mornings, often well before 7, when instead of the blinking amber lights, I am faced with red lights, even though there's hardly any traffic.

And, at the Egipura - IRR junction, the lights for the traffic approaching from the Srinivagilu village side have been dysfunctional from well over a month. Now, things go by guess-work.
 

"What unites us all, brothers and sisters, white and black, is that deep down, we all truly and fundamentally and sincerely  believe that

we

are

better

drivers

than the next guy"

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I give myself as "fair". Because ( I have witnesses) I never ever use the horn. Except twice in the last 9 years. And very gently.

I have no hesitation in considering myself a v.good driver, because,

 I give way to all the others

b'cos they cannot even overtake me and they keep honking for me  !!..

- Vasanth Mysoremath