10 Italian Street RulesElias - 31. August 2018

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Part of Swiss life is visiting neighboring countries! This summer, Italy was on our list and we learned a lot about how Italians keep their streets so safe:

1. Be sure to use your blinker right before you’re about to not turn.
2. When you’re riding your moped in a roundabout, always try to pass the car in front of you, preferrably on the right side of the car. If the car then tries to exit the roundabout and traps you to the curb you should go ahead and pass the car, give it a good kick in passing and then stop in front of the car shouting at the driver for a recommended minimum of 10-15 seconds. True story. I did use the blinker for exiting the roundabout though, so that was probably confusing the poor moped driver.
3. Most Italian cars have a highly advanced parking feature: A simple push of a button magically creates a parking spot right where your car is. In other countries that button is known as the hazard lights.
4. If you see a road in the distance you can judge the distance with this simple rule: If you cannot see any trash on the side of the road, you’re at least 20 km away. If you cannot smell any trash on the side of the road, you’re at least 1 km away.
5. A poem:
   Speed limit 130 km/h, Italian goes 110 km/h,
   Speed limit 110 km/h, Italian goes 110 km/h,
   Speed limit 80 km/h, Italian goes 110 km/h,
   Speed limit 60 km/h, Italian goes 110 km/h.
6. If your car can go faster than 110 km/h it’s not an authentic Italian car.
7. Translations of Italian signs are really just a polite acknowledgment of the existence of other languages, they’re not meant to convey any actual meaning.
8. It has been reported that there was a record of two simultaneously open parking spots in Italy in 1997.
9. Italy has based their highway lane sizes on their national car, the Fiat.
10. The white dotted lines on multi-lane roads should be covered up by your car whenever possible.

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