Ah, traffic!

It always amazes me driving in America!
The standard answer to traffic problems is throw up a stop sign.
No one feels any responsibility to anyone else on the road. "Rush Hour" is a time for snoozing, drinking coffee, talking on the phone, texting, and generally spacing out. I have always been one that thinks its rude to inhibit others on the road! If the speed limit is 55mph try and at least go that speed. If you have thirty cars behind you and you are doing 10 mph under the limit, you are rude!
Another fun one, on the limited access highways, is merging with the brake pedal. You can cannot merge into traffic by slowing down! Its even more amusing when the person next to you in the right lane is also slowing down to let you in! Coming down the entrance ramp, punch it, get up to speed, then try to merge in. Don't think you are going to lazily cruise down the ramp and move smoothly into traffic that is doing 20mph faster then you.
I have always viewed driving as a task that should be "grasped firmly with two hands, and done well". In America its a conundrum, supposedly we love our cars, but hate driving. The truth of this can be seen in the massive SUVs and trucks the vast majority of Americans want to drive and then the lackadaisical manner in which we drive them. The wrist draped casually over the top of the steering wheel is not a position that garners effective evasive action. The same goes for the "rolling thunder" riders with their feet spread out on the cruising pegs, no where near the back brake or shifters.
The responsibility issue goes to all other tasks that driving requires. Not signaling your intentions is a task that has been reduced to optional at best. Oh, yeah, if you are already in the left turn lane, turning on your left turn signal at that point is not telling me anything. Slamming on your brakes and flipping on the turn signal at the same time also does not tell me what you are GOING to do it tells me what you are doing. Your actions have already spelled that out! The turn signal becomes redundant at that point.
My rant for the day is over, be safe out there!