The best place I have driven in was, believe it or not, California. First off, streets have signage in the middle of the block with the name of the upcoming name of the next street - wonderful when you are riding the bus watching for when you are going to get off.

Secondly, the roads are seriously banked- so when there is a flashing light saying 50! 50! 50! you better believe it.

And I enjoy the crispness of California drivers at stop signs. One observes the rule(s) for who goes first and when it's your turn, you go.

And one time they were doing a lot of road construction in downtown Sacramento, with detour after detour. We all swooped and flowed through in a manner I haven't experienced elsewhere.

Now, all of these experiences were from quite awhile ago - mostly in the mid80s- and most definitely were not on LA area freeways.