Many Italian road users have a curious attitude to risk, as in they don’t see it; riding up your chuff, overtaking on blind bends or where there simply isn’t time or space to do so is not uncommon. Add to this a pathological lack of patience and you get a lively driving technique. Although you sense this pretty soon after crossing the border, the general rule is that the larger and further south the city, the less forgiving the traffic. A possible exception is Puglia, the heel, which is relatively calm and collected for southern Italy.
