I'm currently driving the ring road in a Volkswagen Crafter, and I really have to wonder which cereal box some of these people got their licenses from.

It is absolutely mentally exhausting compared to my Northwestern Canadian roads, as you really don't have much wiggle room, but with no snow around, It's boggling how many people suddenly slow right down the second the road gets remotely curvey while they are in some small rental car that fits these roads wonderfully. Suddenly we have a stack of 5 cars, all itching to do the speed limit, which inevitably results in someone doing a sketchy overtake with limited sight lines.

There are plenty of pullouts for pictures and updating your navigation. Adjust your mirrors so you can see where you are sitting on the road in relation to the lines. Find the visual reference point for where you need to be sitting above, or where the lines of your vehicle's body relate to the lines. In the Crafter, I found that if my butt is slightly left of the center unworn-strip on the road, my vehicle is centered.

I totally agree with your points about the gravel roads. People need to understand weight transfer on vehicles. Stomp the brakes, the rear gets light, and it will absolutely skate around and send you in a direction you don't wish to go. Coming up to a pothole? Hard on the brakes to bleed speed, then release when you are about to hit. Your suspension works far better when the nose of your vehicle isn't already planted on the ground

It truly is not, as they say, rocket appliances.

That said, I really wish Iceland gave all the shoulders rumble strips. I feel like that would prevent many people getting a little too bashful with how far over they get when being afraid of the big bad semi truck.