Italian Highway Code

[Sadlonelygit]

I think I've got it now, been in Italy for a good couple of hours now and I think I've cracked it.
Speed limits
Towns and motorways are in kmh
Everything else is mph
Traffic lights
Green/go
Amber/go faster
Red/see amber
Road markings
Stop/they will
Give way/see stop
Solid white line/ be quick about it
Double solid/F1 pass
Not driven in a town/city yet so expect to learn some non IAM approved hand signals in the near future.

[ZRX61]

If you're in pole position at a red light & don't floor it like Don Garlits within 0.002 seconds of getting the green light expect a barrage of horns & people yelling AVANTI!! AVANTI!!

[KungFooBob]

I've been on the bike a couple of times and didn't notice any driving worse than France/Germany.

Belgians on the other hand are death wish nutters. The red number plates are a warning!

[Skub]

When Mrs.Skub and I were in Rome a ween o' years ago,I twigged that pedestrians have the right of way. You need a leap of faith to cross the road,then it's like the parting of the waters. I tripped out on the power and kept crossing randomly crossing the road.

[Taipan]

When I was in Naples it seemed most traffic laws were at best advisory!

[Sadlonelygit]

The Italian/Croydon stop
Where a vehicle screams past you at 2x the speed limit, then see a friend/pretty girl and then bend the laws of physics to stop, and then engage person in a lengthy conversation.

Exiting the autostrada
Overtake as many vehicles as you can in the outside lane, then leaving it as late as possible (extra macho points if you actually use the hatchings) blat across 3 or sometimes 4 lanes to your exit

[Cousin Jack]

Headlight flash from behind on the Autostrada means "Get out of my way you peasant, I am doing 250kph in my S class Mercedes and I will not slow down for lesser vehicles like you".

[Sadlonelygit]

Headlight flash from behind on the Autostrada means "Get out of my way you peasant, I am doing 250kph in my S class Mercedes and I will not slow down for lesser vehicles like you".

Wouldn't know about that, rarely venture out of lane 1

[Felix]

When i was up at the north end of lake Como (Domaso) we were leaving to head north and when leaving the town and old guy driving into town was looking at the Rolling Stones logo on the roof of my bus so much he put his car into a drain ditch.

[Wscad]

Two bikes . If you leave a gap more than 6ft between 2 bikes, a car driver will try and get in that space

Indicators on all the time. I’m overtaking anything and everything in front of me.

That delightful experience of looking in your mirror and all you can see is a number plate. The nutters aren’t happy with a gap of more than 2ft between your bike and there front bumper

Italian car drivers are nutters.

Final answer

[ZRX61]

That delightful experience of looking in your mirror and all you can see is a number plate. The nutters aren’t happy with a gap of more than 2ft between your bike and there front bumper

I had some putz tailgate my F350 yesterday for about 15 miles on a freeway. Nothing preventing the guy passing me, he just matched my speed between 65 & 85mph Then when he finally did pass me, he hooked on the rear bumper of a car that was in the next lane, about 70ft ahead of me. He tailgated that guy for a few miles too, matching his varying speed.

[KungFooBob]

Adaptive cruise set to the lowest distance maybe?

[Lutin]

Adaptive cruise set to the lowest distance maybe?

Or severe myopia maybe?

[Supermofo]

I've been on the bike a couple of times and didn't notice any driving worse than France/Germany.

Belgians on the other hand are death wish nutters. The red number plates are a warning!

Got a taxi in Brussels once, holy shit I thought I was in the car chase from Ronin, terrifying

[Cousin Jack]

I've been on the bike a couple of times and didn't notice any driving worse than France/Germany.

Belgians on the other hand are death wish nutters. The red number plates are a warning!

Got a taxi in Brussels once, holy shit I thought I was in the car chase from Ronin, terrifying

Brussels being road is interesting! Slip roads are treated in a slightly different manner than usual.

[ZRX61]

Adaptive cruise set to the lowest distance maybe?

6-10ft at 85mph??

[Pirahna]

The Spanish occasionally like to build motorway junctions with the off ramp a couple of hundred metres after the on ramp, it makes things interesting. I've written about Spanish roundabouts before, they're taught to use the outside lane and never indicate (that is actually how they're taught to drive). Most of the local 2 lane roundabouts have been reduced to 1 lane, places where there are multilane roundabouts tend to be busy, crash into anybody trying to leave a roundabout from the inside lane and it's automatically your fault.

[Supermofo]

The Spanish occasionally like to build motorway junctions with the off ramp a couple of hundred metres after the on ramp, it makes things interesting. I've written about Spanish roundabouts before, they're taught to use the outside lane and never indicate (that is actually how they're taught to drive). Most of the local 2 lane roundabouts have been reduced to 1 lane, places where there are multilane roundabouts tend to be busy, crash into anybody trying to leave a roundabout from the inside lane and it's automatically your fault.

Hate joining Spanish dual carriageways, often there is no joining lane so you're making a standing start from 0 mph into fast moving traffic. Especially not fun when in a 1 litre Fiat Doblo with less power than the average hoover

[Yorick]

The Spanish occasionally like to build motorway junctions with the off ramp a couple of hundred metres after the on ramp, it makes things interesting. I've written about Spanish roundabouts before, they're taught to use the outside lane and never indicate (that is actually how they're taught to drive).

It's same here. It's because they can never be at fault in the outside lane.
Our lass took her test here 3 years ago and that's what she was told.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Adaptive cruise set to the lowest distance maybe?

NASCAR driver practicing drafting.