If you are from other parts of the world, or even other parts of Canada, you will find Vancouverites a strange bunch of drivers. When I first came to Vancouver I had inherited a set of aggressive driving tendencies from elsewhere in urban Canada. Therefore it came as a shock when trying to pressure Vancouver drivers to hurry up; it actually confused them and they slowed down. There seems to be a certain disinterest in driving. Clouds? Imaginary friends? I could not tell what was distracting Vancouver drivers. With the advent of cell phones, the distraction became directly observable. If […]