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The online poll, from motorway management company La Fondations Vinci Autoroutes and survey agency Ipsos, found that the vast majority of drivers from across 11 European countries admitted to regularly breaking the rules of the road.
It asked 11,038 people aged 15 and over - depending on driving age - including at least 1,000 people in each of the 11 countries polled.
Drivers in Mediterranean countries - such as Greece, Spain, Italy and France - were widely considered to be the most "disrespectful", while the Swedish were deemed the most "courteous", followed by the Slovakians and the British.
The French were found to be the least likely to indicate (63% admitted to not doing this), while the Germans were most likely to speed on the motorway (93% admitted to this).
Over two thirds of the Swedish (78%) admitted to not respecting safe distances between themselves and the car in front when driving, while the Spanish were most likely to hoot their car horn (66%) at anyone who annoyed them on the road.

A general view shows the embassy of Canada in Moscow, Russia March 29, 2018.
The rebuke comes after Canadian lawmakers approved a law regulating production and circulation of cannabis for recreational purposes. Moscow believes that the law, which is to come into force come autumn, directly violates Ottawa's international commitments, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The ministry referred to three key treaties dealing with narcotics - the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention of Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 UN Convention against illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - all of which Canada endorsed. The documents as well international bodies tackling illegal drug trade, do not condone using "exceptions" or "flexible interpretation" to turn scheduled substances into entertainment. Moscow sees the change of policy in Canada as a "serious obstacle" on the way to a drug-free society.
The retired German tennis star, who claims his role as an attache to the EU gives him diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy proceedings in the UK, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I have received this passport from the ambassador. I have spoken to the president on many occasions. It was an official inauguration. I believe the documents they are giving me must be right."
The three-times Wimbledon champion has faced a series of denials from CAR officials about the issue, including from the foreign minister, Charles Armel Doubane. The presidential spokesman, Albert Yaloke Mokpeme, said the head of state never appointed Becker to the post. The presidency said: "We are not custodians of the physical and moral integrity of this gentleman."

People hold placards at a protest against the rape of an eight-year-old girl in India on April 22, 2018.
The women were performing in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on Tuesday when the men approached the group, which also included four male colleagues and two nuns.
"The survivors said their male colleagues were beaten and made to drink their own urine before being locked up in the car," Deputy Inspector General Amol V Homkar told the Times of India.
The directive on tightening control of firearms under the guise of counter-terrorism was approved by the European Parliament in mid-March, and would see the Czech Republic - which combines comparatively liberal gun rights with low levels of crime and extremely low levels of terrorism - forced to impose new restrictions or face sanctions from Brussels.
Center for Civic Freedoms founder Václav Klaus Jr., son of former president Václav Klaus Sr., complained that the governments of non-democratic and fascist countries disarm their citizens, not free countries.
Comment: An incredible media and politically driven effort to disarm Americans - and now in Europe by the European Parliament?! Is the PTB on both continents expecting something to happen in both places that make them fear an armed citizenry?
Spanish engineer Sergi Santos is behind one of latest sex doll models to capitalize on the niche market. Earlier this year he told RT.com about how future iterations of his love robot, Samantha, could allow people to "have sex whenever [they] like" and then enable users to order their shopping.
British police and the Football Association launched a joint investigation after footage emerged online showing English fans performing Nazi salutes, shouting "Sieg Heil" and singing songs glorifying the Third Reich. The video was shot on Monday at a bar in Volgograd, the city known as Stalingrad during World War Two, where more than 2 million people died.
It's perfectly legal for a company under investigation by a state attorney general to give money to the political associations for attorneys general that fund AG campaigns. In return, it's legal for those associations to give access to company lobbyists.
Malthusian ideas were the first incoherent ideology adopted by the new left, in its wake anti-humanism became switched out for humanism. Where once the left championed the poor, now Malthusian overpopulation concerns turned the poor themselves into liabilities. People now pollute not unfair political and economic systems which alienate the poor from their humanity.

Trump’s new threat comes after the EU imposed tariffs on a range of US consumer goods in response to steel and aluminium tariffs from the White House, which could increase the cost of consumer goods by £200m per year in the UK alone.
Raising the stakes in the tit-for-tat exchange of import tariffs threatening to spark a global trade war, the US president tweeted in response to the EU tariffs which came into effect late on Thursday: "If these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build them here!"
Trump's new threat comes after the EU imposed tariffs on a range of US consumer goods in response to steel and aluminium tariffs from the White House, which could increase the cost of consumer goods by £200m per year in the UK alone.












Comment: You can tell a lot about a culture by their drivers.