People can't drive

There are some really bad drivers here. People don't seem to know how to use indicators. The way people just vague their way between lanes is astonishing - so much so that I had to start using vague as a verb for lack of a better word. Some people really don't seem to be able to stay in their lane either - I saw someone today straying halfway into the slip lane exiting the freeway before noticing that they weren't in their lane any more.

The scary thing is that heavy freeway traffic really is harder to drive in than anything in Australia (except maybe a few key roads in Sydney and Melbourne for less than 5km at a time). I don't understand how they avoid having accidents like every day. There's also a really hugh variation in driving attitude: you can have the nervous 90km/hr right-lane only drivers (remembering that the right lane is the slow lane here) on the same road as the 150km/hr hoons who appear out of nowhere.

I guess this is why car insurance premiums are so huge here (think 3 to 6 times what they are in Australia), and why they're like double if you're male and under 25.