[anateus]

Bay area and LA drivers are very different. LA driving is more similar to Tel Aviv driving, if you want a taste of home :)

Bay area drivers have this weird sense of "lane ownership". They don't change lanes... and they don't let anyone come in! It's not the sort of "Won't let you cut in front of me!" that you sometimes see in Israel, but a general thing. Even if you need to change lanes to exit and it's clear you're going to exit right away, I've had countless drivers speed up and block me from merging to the right.

This weird quirk does make it useful for applying traffic wave theory, so at least there's one good outcome.