OK, what I gather from everyone's posts is that the traffic is not all that different from here. We have rude drivers too and 70+ on the freeway is pretty much the norm during non-rush times. Regarding map services, does anyone really follow the directions that those things give? I mean, I can almost always find a better route than what they suggest. I'm a bit of a map dork, though. I'll use the map itself, but I don't need the text part telling me where to turn.