Don't Worry I Have Horn

The dangerous culture of Egyptian Driver's is captured in this tourist Tiara316 post repeated below and her other entries can be seen at this link.

"Beeping your car horn in the States is meant as a protest against some driver who's cut you off or stolen your parking spot. Not so in Egypt. In Egypt, your car horn is a vital piece of driving equipment that you use approximately every thirty seconds. Beeping your horn means "coming up on you" or "passing you on the left" or "watch out, pedestrian" or even just "hello."

It is also true that when driving in the States, there are lanes in the road that you have to stay in, and signal if you're going to switch out. Again, not so in Egypt. Instead, they have just three or four cars abreast always crossing in front of each other and barely missing each other in an unstopping fluid flow. Our driver Said explained that he thinks the Egyptian system is actually better and reduces accidents because if the person in front of him has to suddenly stop, he has many more options to just go around him instead of crashing into his bumper. I, on the other hand, do NOT feel confident about the Egyptian traffic system, and riding in the front passenger seat I have been treated to many scary almost-collisions with our car. Every time I white knuckle the door and gasp at a near miss, Said just jokes, "Don't worry, I have horn."