What is a "good" driver?

[Bald Eagle]

...as human populations tend to exhibit Bell Curve results close to the standard model - and therefore the average is usually pretty close to the middle - roughly 50% above and 50% below.

Tell that to the socially engineered 50% failure rate for our school exams. The results are normalised to fit the bell curve not the other way around.

Should be recorded as one of the great lies of all time.

[Scuba_Steve]

Given the behaviours I see on the road I think it is far more likely that 86% of New ZEaland drivers are below average ...

I would actually put that figure in the low 90's sad to say (but then I did live in Palmerston North for a while, home to the worst drivers in NZ)

[bogan]

One thing that make a good driver is pre-planning, and pre-indication, hard to do while on cellphone or squawking away to passengers, but with gps it's even possible to do in unfamiliar towns if you try! Rather than just cutting up lanes and starting to indicate while turning. Slow initiation of lane changes and turns, so if there does happen to be a vehicle in the way that you have missed, they have ample time to see the indicator, and decent time to get out of the way once they realise you haven't seen them.

plus things that have been said before, situational awareness, courtesy, lack of ego....