On those rare occasions when I have to drive (usually because I am visiting my elderly parents and they want to go somewhere), I relieve some of the stress by making a game of anticipating the stupid maneuvers of other drivers. It's actually pretty easy: just assume they think they are racing, don't bother to look at what is happening around them and are stupid (as well as ignorant of the laws). With those assumptions, it is quite easy to predict what motorists will do.

For those who think they live amongst the worst drivers in the world, I think that is a pretty common feeling. However, when I am in San Francisco, I can sit outside for hours at a time and not hear a siren. In OR, I think the official sound of the state is the ambulance siren. I often hear twenty in a day in a city of 130,000.