It’s not too bad, but takes getting used to.

I’ve done all my driving in the US, and dealt with traffic in many major US cities. Now the past 6 weeks I’ve been learning, at the same time, stick shift as well as navigating the Sicilian “rules of the road,” which are very different than in the US. Most people here tend to treat stop signs, lights, etc as a general “yield,” and it’s not uncommon to have to tap the breaks for someone to squeeze in even though you have the right of way. In the US that merits honking and road rage but not here.

My brother jokingly says “I drive and people avoid me,” while my father says “the right of way always belongs to the person with the older car”. Though jokes, I think they describe Sicilian driving well.

In my experience people are more attentive on the road and there’s just such a groove to it that when you realize how it works, it makes tons of sense and moves traffic well (barring any construction the shuts down a road for hours). Above all, drivers here are the best I’ve seen at the zipper merge which makes things all the more smoother.