It's easy to ridicule a city's drivers, or make funny jokes about how Bostonian 5-second-after-red-light runners would get killed driving in red-yellow-means-green-in-a-sec Amsterdam, but Pittsburgh drivers scare me.

They're not exceptionally fast or slow, and the Pittsburgh Left isn't so bad once you get used to it. No, what scares me about many of the drivers here is that they drive as though everyone else is fully aware, has fast reflexes, and is a good (err, nimble) driver. In fact, the existence of the Pittsburgh Left is probably evidence of this.

It's all about taking right of way instead of waiting for it to be given to you, but in more of a "I borrowed a quarter from your change bowl and I'll give it back tomorrow" instead of pulling someone's wallet out of their pocket.

Either there's a Pittsburgh hivemind I'm not yet aware of, or folks here just have a lot of faith in their fellow drivers. Come to think of it, though I've heard about three accidents secondhand, I haven't seen a single one in the six months I've been here. How odd is that?